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ah’s aboot fit for my dinner ;” Sc., ‘‘ Weel, I’m aboot fit for my 
dinner,” “bed,” “tea,” &e. 
III. Report by Mr Georce F. Scorr-Extior, B.Se., on 
‘Mr Carruthers’ Donation. 
Mr Wm. Carruthers has very greatly benefited the Society by 
the very valuable series of plants in this collection. Members of 
the Society who will inspect the specimens in the Herbarium 
will see that they are of the very greatest importance. It is, of 
course, possible to get specimens of British plants without much 
trouble, but the importance and value of these specimens lies in 
the fact that they are in almost every case named by the very 
best authorities on English Botany, There are amongst them 
plants named by Mr C. Bailey, Mr A. Brotherston, Mr W. P. 
Hiern, and other eminent botanists, and many of the sheets have 
an antiquarian and autographic value which can only be ap- 
preciated by examination. Moreover, in point of mere numbers, 
this collection has at once given a completeness to our Herbarium 
which I had never dreamed of its attaining, and many of the 
specimens are of plants so rare that it would have been im- 
possible for us to obtain them in any other way. 
6th February, 1891. 
Major Bowpen, V.P., in the Chair. 
New Members.—Mr Alexander Bryson, Rev. John Cairns, Mr 
James Carmont, Mr Philip Sulley, Mr Alexander Turner. 
Donation.—The North American Fauna, Nos. 3 and 4, from 
the United States Department of Agriculture, Washington. 
CoMMUNICATIONS. 
I. References to the Dumfriesshire Flora in Shakespeare and 
Burns. By Mr James Suaw (abridged). 
~ In the following brief list I have confined myself to such wild 
flowers as are in our district, and I have arranged the matter 
alphabetically :— 
The Anemone, or wind-flower, called by Dumfriesshire school 
