20 " History of the Society. 



Session 1864-1865. [Vol. III.] 



The meeting" place of our Society had been the Com- 

 mittee Room of the Mechanics' Institute, but on November 

 ist, 1864, " The Society held the first meeting of the Session 

 — being- the Annual Meeting- — in their apartment in the 

 Dumfries and Galloway Club Rooms," and thanks were 

 tendered " to the Committee for their kindness in allowing- 

 the apartment in which the meetings was held to be occupied 

 by them for the purposes of the Society." The Transactions 

 and Journal for the session 1864-1865, published in 1867, run 

 to some eig-hty-six pag-es, comprising-, among- other papers, an 

 address by Sir William Jardine, the President, and the first 

 paper read by that curious enquirer James Shaw, long and 

 widely-respected master of the somewhat remote upper school 

 of Tynron. W. R. M'Diarmid, Patrick Dudgeon, and James 

 Starke also rendered valuable contributions. The Member- 

 ship had risen to one hundred and twenty-eight, and the 

 receipts were p(^23 ^7^ 2d, as against ^"24 15s gd expenditure. 

 Two illustrations by Mrs H. E. vStrickland, the talented 

 daughter of the President, completed the volume. 



Session 1865-1866. [Vol. IV.] 



Sixty-five pages, published in 1868, suffice to cover the 

 Transactions of this period. The annual address was 

 delivered by the Vice-President, W. R. M'Diarmid, as also 

 one of the papers printed. Of the remaining three, two are 

 by James Starke; the third, by T. C. Carlyle, on "The 

 Debateable Land," occupies thirty-two pages, and is illus- 

 trated by a well-engraved folding map in three colours. The 

 Members who qualified by sending their subscriptions 

 amounted to ninety-nine, and the funds at the disposal of the 

 Society were £34. los 5d. 



Session 1866-1867. [Vol. V.] 



The meetings this session were held in the Society's 

 apartment in the Dumfries and Galloway Club Rooms. There 

 were one hundred and twenty-four members during this 

 period. The receipts were £:^t, 2s id, which were all ex- 



