PROCEEDINGS AND TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY 
NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY, 
SESSION 1890-91. 
3rd October, 1890. 
ANNUAL MEETING. 
Major Bowpen, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
New Members.—Rev. George Laurie Fogo, of Torthorwald ; 
Rev. Patrick M. Playfair, of Glencairn; Mr John Rae, Rashie- 
grain, Teviothead; Miss Ethel Taylor, Kirkandrews Rectory, 
Longtown. 
Donations.—From the Rev. R. W. Weir, a portrait of Dr 
-Mounsey, the court physician to the Czarina Catherine II. in 
1768, and a copy of the pamphlet published in 1815 by Dr 
Duncan on Savings Banks; the Report of the Bureau of 
Ethnology (Washington), 1883-5; Report of the British Associa 
tion, 1889; the Essex Naturalist, October, 1889—June, 1890 ; 
Report of the Belfast Naturalists Field Club; Report of Marl- 
borough College Natural History Society; Proceedings of the 
Canadian Institute, Toronto, April, 1890; Journal of the Elisha 
Mitchell Scientific Society ; Transactions of the New York 
Academy of Sciences; the Problem of the Ohio Mounds; the 
Textile Fabrics of Ancient Peru; Bibliography of the Iroquoian 
languages; Bibliography of the Muskhogean languages; the 
Circular Square and Octagonal Earthworks of Ohio ; the Smith- 
sonian Report of the United States’ National Museum, 1886-7 ; 
Transactions of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, 1889 , 
Bulletin of Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences; Pr oceedings 
