186 TRANSACTIONS. 
this gland, a common duct leaves this gland and enters the 
albuminiparous gland near its base, when after receiving the duct 
of that gland leaves it to form the common generative canal. This 
canal is composed of the vas deferens and oviduct united together. 
The vas deferens branches off at the neck of the oviduct, and 
gradually widens asit enters the penis sac. The seminal receptacle 
is a pear shaped body connected to the vestibule by a short neck. 
It is to be regretted that the diagrams with which I illustrated 
this paper cannot be reproduced here, as by their aid the various 
parts described can be much more easily understood. 
12th to 16th of November, 1889. 
EXHIBITION. 
(Description from Standard ). 
The immediate occasion of this effort on the part of the 
Society was the reception of the minerals bequeathed to the town 
by the late Mr W. Baxter, of Glasgow, which have been placed 
under its care. The minerals have been arranged in cases in the 
upper room, under the charge of Mr Davidson, Summerhill. 
There has been brought together also an interesting loan collection 
of local antiquities, and of Burns and Stuart relics and autograph 
letters ; and the room downstairs has been converted into a local 
portrait gallery, in which the works—chiefly engravings, with an 
admixture of crayons, pencil sketches, photographs, and silhouettes 
—number about two hundred. 
A portrait of Mr Baxter, executed in crayon by his relative, 
Mr J. R. Ferguson, Dumfries, overlooks his mineral collection. 
The silver gun of the incorporated trades adorns the gable ; and 
below it is a wooden panel, with a figure of the donor, King James 
VL., carved upon it, and a Latin inscription, in which the divine 
right of kings is asserted, this being the property of Mr Davidson. 
Mr Wilson, solicitor, Sanquhar, sends a choice collection of stone 
and bronze celts ; and contributions to the illustration of the same 
ages are made by Mr James Lennox; Mr J. H. Rutherford, Ash 
Bank, Parkgate (who sends a very fine bronze celt found in Tin- 
wald) ; and Mr J. Corrie, Moniaive (bronze pot). The Burns relies 
include the miniature of ‘‘ Clarinda,” for which she sat at the 
poet’s request, and which was discovered less than a year ago by 
Mr Barbour, architect ; various books annotated in Burns’s hand- 
