TRANSACTIONS. 269 
tion in Dumfries do not require to be told that he has turned his 
attention with good purpose also to the gathering of rare old 
engravings. A very pleasant hour was spent in the gardens and 
grounds, which are most tastefully laid out and beautifully kept. 
The botanists found much on which to question their genial host, 
and his store of information was readily at their command. 
Having expressed through Major Bowden their thanks for the 
hospitality which had been extended to them, and been assured 
by Mr Rimmer that he would be delighted to have them again as 
his guests next season, the party left about seven o’clock and 
drove in to Dumfries. 
3rd of July, 1890. 
At a meeting of the Council, Mr G.-F. Scott Elliot, F.LS., 
was appointed curator of the Herbarium, with the Misses Hannay 
and Miss M. Aitken as assistants. A letter was read from Mrs 
Walter Grierson of Chapel Mount, acknowledging one from Dr 
Chinnock, in which he had accepted the gift of her late son’s (Dr 
Frank Grierson) Herbarium to the Society. 
5th of July, 1890. 
Field Meeting--Kirkcudbright, Cally Park, Anwoth, Gatehouse. 
New Members—Mr John Henderson, solicitor; Mrs Sloan, 
Elmbank ; Miss Copland, Abbey House, Newabbey. 
Twenty-six members attended, and proceeded by rail to 
Kirkeudbright, where they were joined by thirteen of the Kirk- 
eudbright Club. The whole party, under the escort of Mr John 
M‘Kie, then drove to Gatehouse, going by way of Nunmill and 
Borgue, passing the old churchyard of Kirkchrist, and along the 
foot of the wooded moat of Doon. Some distance further on, they 
passed the bye-road leading across the farm of Balmangan to the 
burial-ground of the ancient parish of Senwick, now incorporated 
in Borgue. The party, however, did not visit the churchyard, 
which is some distance off the road ; but pushed on past Balmangan 
Tower, the seat at divers times of the families of Charteris, M‘Lellan, 
and Carson, and by Pringleton, Borgue, and Plunton Castle. The 
latter was the seat of the family of Lennox—or, as it used to be 
