Contents. 



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Maxwell, Sir Heibert. The Ti'ue Principles and Purposes of 



Archteology ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 51 



Members, List, revised to l.st July, 1913 370 



Office-Bearers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 3 



Old Dumfries Houses... ... ... ... ... ... ... 348 



Presentations ... ... ... ... ... ... ... -360 



Purchases ... ... .-. . ... ... ... ... ... 364 



Robison, J. The Royal Castle of Kirkcudbright 222 



Rutherford, J. Asti'onomical Notes, 1912 278 



— Weather and other Notes taken at Jardington during 1912 211 

 Shirley, G. W. The End of the Greyfriars' Convent of Dum- 

 fries and the Last of the Friars ... ... ... ... 303 



Thomson, Dr J. C. The Part Played by Insects in the Propa- 

 gation of Disease ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 90 



Watt, Andrew. Rainfall Records for the Southern Counties 



for the year 1912 220 



ILLUSTRATIONS. 



Portraits of Presidents : — 



Hugh S. Gladstone, M.A., F.R.S.E., F.S.A.(Scot.) 



Sir William Jardine, Bart., LL.D., F.R.S. 



James Starke, F.S.A.(Scot.) ..v 



Dr James Gilchrist, M.D. ... 



J. Gibson Starke, F.S.A.(Scot.), F.R.C.I. 



Dr Thomas Boyle Grierson, M.D. ... 



Richard Rimmer, F.L.S. 



Sir James Crichton-Browne, M.D., LL.D., F.R.S. 



Sir Robert Reid, Q.C. (Right Hon. Earl Loreburn, 

 P.C, G.C.M.G.) 



Rev. Sir Emilius Laurie, Bart. 



W. J. H. Maxwell of Munches 



Right Hon. Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., LL.D., 

 D.C.L., F.R.S 



G. F. Scott Elliot, F.R.G.S., F.L.S 



Old Dumfries Houses (descriptions, page 348) : — 



The Old Turnpike House 



The Pillars 



The Bishop's House ... 

 Royal Castle of Kirkcudbright, Plan ... 

 Signatures : — 



Archibald Macbrair, Provost of Dumfries 



James Rig, Provost of Dumfries ... 



Charles Home, Warden of the Greyfriars 

 William Copland of Colliston, Provost of Diuufries ... 



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