Proceedings and Transactions 



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Dumfriesshire and Galloway 



Natural tUstorypntipBrinn JoGietij. 



SESSionsr 1913-1914. 



17th October, 1913. 



Annual Meeting. 



Chairman — H. S. Cladsionk, M.A., F.Z.S., F.R.S.E., 

 F.S.A.(Scol.), President. 



The Office-Bearers and Members of Council for the 

 Session were appointed (see p. 3). 



Tlie Secretary and Treasurer subrhitted their reports, 

 which were approved. The former showed that there were 

 15 life, 10 honorary, 14 corresponding, and 405 ordinary 

 members, that 14 indoor and i field meeting had been held. 

 Presentations had been more numerous and important than 

 usual. The Society exchanged Transactions with 56 kindred 

 associations. The Library continued to increase, mainly in 

 Transactions, but five volumes were purchased last year. 

 The Museum showed little change. Mr James Davidson was 

 naming and arranging the collection of minerals, and Mr 

 Robert Wallace had increased the collection of fossils, par- 

 ticularly the graptolites of ihe district. Although some 

 presentations had been made for the Herbarium, they had 

 not been arranged in the collection. 



The President referred to the death of Mr J. F. Cormack, 

 Lockerbie, who joined the Society in 1893, and had taken 



