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portraits of Dumfriesshire and Galloway worthies and other 
objects of local interest, on Tuesday, the 12th of November, till 
Saturday, the 16th. Messrs Barbour, Chinnock, Davidson, Dickie, 
Lennox, and Moodie were appointed a sub-committee to manage 
the Exhibition. 
Donations.—Smithsonian Report for 1886, from Washington ; 
Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences ; Proceedings 
of the Canadian Institute, Toronto ; Proceedings of the Academy 
of Sciences, Davenport, Iowa ; Essex Naturalist from January to 
June, 1889. Mr J. S. Thomson presented a fine specimen of blue 
from Kimberley Diamond Mine. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
I. Notes on the Minerals of Dumfries and Galloway. By Mr 
Patrick DuDGEON of Cargen. 
Until comparatively recent years the greater part of this 
district has been almost a ¢erra incognita as regards Mineralogy, 
with the exception of the district of Wanlockhead and Leadhills, 
which has for long attracted the attention of Mineralogists, from 
the variety of beautiful specimens found there. One seldom 
finds in any mineralogical work any notice of minerals to be 
found in this south-west corner of Scotland ; of course a few have 
been noticed, and the late Mr Copeland of Blackwood called 
attention to several mineral localities in the district, but he does 
not appear to have extended his researches to any great extent 
in Galloway. Of course, Mineralogists are attracted in their 
search for minerals to places where mining operations are going on, 
or where they have been carried on, as it is from lead, copper, 
iron mines, quarries, &e., that mineralogical specimens are most 
likely to be procured, for reasons which will be obvious to 
every one. 
Few metallic mines have been worked in the Stewartry, and 
none that I am aware of in Wigtownshire, and none with any 
great success. Many /ria/s for lead, copper, and iron have been 
made in different parts of the country, which have been abandoned, 
but they have given mineralogists opportunities they might not 
otherwise have had of making many additions to the very meagre 
list of our local minerals, which, until very lately, were to be found 
in mineralogical works. Since more attention in this direction has 
been turned to this part of the country, a very large number of 
