Transactions. 17 
5th December, 1890. 
Mr James Barsour, V.P., in the Chair. 
New Members.—Rev, Alexander Chapman and Dr Patrick 
Murray. 
Donations and Exhibits.—A collection of the rarer plants of 
Wigtownshire was presented by Mr James M‘Andrew for the 
Herbarium ; a stone hammer found at Newfield, near Ecclefechan, 
was presented by Miss Aitken. Mr James Barbour exhibited a 
very fine fungus of the genus of the Polyporus; Mr John Corrie, 
a valentine over 100 years old, belonging to Mrs Harkness of 
Dalwhat, Moniaive ; Mr J. 8. Thomson, a bead found in opening 
a grave at Sweetheart Abbey, supposed to have been part of a 
rosary. 
Herbarium of British Plants.—The Secretary informed the 
Council that Mr Carruthers, the Curator of the British Museum 
(Natural History) had offered Mr G. F. Scott Elliot, M.A., the 
selection of specimens from the Museum, with the view of form- 
ing at Dumfries an Herbarium of British Plants. It was agreed 
to empower Mr Scott Elliot to make such a selection as he 
deemed desirable, and that he should be requested to form the 
Herbarium which he proposed. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
I. A Pre-Historic Colony at Anwoth. 
By Mr Freperic R, Coues. : 
The district to which my remarks are limited in the present 
paper is one so remarkably rich in pre-historic remains that, at 
first, it seems puzzling where to begin. Its area occupies strictly 
a good deal less than the five square miles marked out on my 
enlargement of the Ordnance Survey Map, and the whole of it 
lies well to the westward of the famous Skyreburn. It is hilly, 
as you may see from the names and heights of the moorland; the 
summits of Barholm Hill and Ben John, three miles from the 
sea, being respectively 1163 and 1000 feet high, while Cairn 
Harrow, about 1} miles more inland, touches 1500 feet. 
It is well bounded by streams: Cauldside Burn, on the extreme 
North, falling into the Skyreburn, forming together the largest 
stream, while Kirkdale Burn runs on the East, and the three 
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