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in the village and its vicinity, especially noteworthy being the 
monument erected to James Renwick, the last of the martyrs, who 
was executed in Edinburgh early in 1688. This heroic young man 
was a native of the village. A gean tree now marks the site of 
the cottage where he was born. After passing a vote of thanks 
to Mr Corrie for his services as guide, the party drove to 
Glencairn Church, where the Rev. Patrick Playfair was waiting 
to point out objects of interest. The remains of the old pre- 
Reformation church and the tombstones of the three Ingleston 
martyrs were observed, Mr Playfair supplying as much information 
as he had been able at present to acquire about the old church, 
the gable ends of which alone remain. He then shewed the 
visitors through his exquisite garden, pointing out various rare and 
beautiful plants and flowers. After the Secretary had conveyed 
the thanks of the Society to Mr Playfair, the party drove back to 
Dumfries through Dunscore and Holywood villages. 
Report of the Formation of the Herbarium. By G. F. 
Scott-Exuiot, M.A. 
The herbarium of the Dumfriesshire and Galloway Society 
may now be regarded as an actual entity. It now numbers fully 
500 species, in which are included almost all the rarer plants of 
Dumfriesshire. The majority of those not represented are either 
very common plants, such as Daisy, and naturalised or planted 
species and outcasts or escapes. There is no reason why the end 
of next season should not see us in possession of a complete 
herbarium of the three counties. 
The arrangement adopted has been to number each sheet 
after the London Catalogue as well as after Bentham’s Manual, 
We have entered on every sheet as definite an account of the 
locality as we could obtain. 
The entire labour of mounting these 500 and more sheets has 
been performed by the Misses Hannay, with some assistance from 
Miss Margaret Aitken and Miss Hamilton, and the thanks of the 
Society are especially due to these ladies for the extremely neat 
and beautiful way in which this part of the work has been done, 
It is, moreover, a peculiarly monotonous and self-denying task, 
and the time and labour spent upon it has been very great indeed. 
The herbarium has been arranged in order, and is now ready for 
