246 TRANSACTIONS. 
Town Council on the 7th of December, 1740, regulating the extent and 
method of payment of the burgh’s expenses in public-houses. 
2nd of May, 1890. 
Major BowDEN in the Chair. 
New Member.—On the motion of the Secretary Mr J. G. 
Baker, F.R.S., curator of the Kew Botanical Gardens, was elected 
‘ an honorary member. 
Donations.—Proceedings of the Natural History Society of 
Glasgow, 1887-9 ; Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of 
Natural Science, 1888-9; Annals of the New York Academy of 
Sciences ; the Seventh Annual Report for 1885-6 of the United 
States Geological Survey. 
Mr Scott Elliot made a report of his preliminary efforts in 
procuring assistants for forming a /vora of the district, and the 
formation of an Herbarium for Dumfriesshire and Galloway. 
The Dinwiddie Library. 
The Secretary read the following letter, received through Mr 
Robert Stoba, Solicitor, from Mr Robert Dinwiddie, of New York. 
Brae SrpE, ScaRBoRouGH-on-Hupson, 
New York, Ist March, 1890. 
To Dr Epwarp J. CHINNOCE, 
Secretary of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural 
History and Antiquarian Society, 
Dumfries, Scotland. 
SIR, 
Mr Robert Stoba has kindly consented to 
hand you with this letter two cases of books as per enclosed list, for- 
merly the property of my late father, Robert Dinwiddie, a native of 
Dumfries, and, as I believe, a member of your Society. These books 
were bequeathed in his will to me, but I have concluded to offer them 
to your Society in the hope that they may prove of value to its members 
in many ways. I trust that they may prove acceptable to your Society, and 
find a permanent home among the fellow-townsmen of my father, and I 
desire that they shall be added to your library of reference, and be 
known as the ‘‘ Robert Dinwiddie Library,” and held subject to such 
regulations that, while promoting to the utmost usefulness to all 
members of your Society, they will still be protected as far as is possible 
from loss, destruction, or mutilation. In presenting these books to 
