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should be granted by a payment of two g'uineas. " Ordinary 

 Members shall on election pay two shillings and sixpence 

 entry fee, and contribute annually the sum of two shillings and 

 sixpence in advance, or such other sum as may be fixed at 

 an Annual Meeting". Ladies joining- the Society as Ordinary 

 Members will be exempt from entry fee." At the annual 

 meeting" on October 6lh, 1882, the Society was reported to be 

 in funds to the extent of ^,2 8s 3d, but a further examination 

 of the accounts resulted in the unpleasant disclosure on 

 November 3rd that in reality the Society was at that time ,£,8 

 IS gd in debt. On November 3rd, 1882, the Society met in 

 the Freemasons' Hall, Black Horse Close, and this meeting- 

 place was made use of till 1885. ^'^ 1882 A List of the Floiver- 

 hig Phuits of Duuiiriesshirc und Kirkcudhrightshirc , by Mr 

 James M'Andrew, was published. This separate publication is 

 here remarkable as being" the hrst of its kind to be undertaken 

 by the .Society. 



Six intermediate lectures of a popular nature were given, 

 commencing" on November 17th, 1882, and the energ"y of our 

 Society is further testified to by a well-attended Conversazione 

 and exhibition held in Greyfriars' Hall on January 5th, 1883. 

 I may remind you of the important part played by our 

 members at this time in the successful agitation to preserve 

 the character of I)evorg"illa's Bridge across the Nith at 

 Dumfries. 



Sessions 1883-1884, 1884-1885. 1885-1886. (No. 4.) 

 [Vol. X.] 



The title-pag"e of this volume, published in 1887, rejoices 

 the eye, as it bears the original (and present) title of The 

 Transactions and ]our)nd of Proceedings of the Dumfriesshire 

 and Gallo7vay Natural History a)id Antiquarian Society. We 

 learn that this original name was returned to, on the motion 

 on March 6th, 1885, of Mr James Lennox, then Hon. 

 Treasurer. .\ statement of accounts shows receipts of 

 ;£^3i 4s, and expenditure of ;£.^24 os lid, and we learn that 

 the membership amounted to one hundred and eighty-three. 

 The volume runs to one hundred and eig"hty-seven pages, and 

 comprises, as usual, a number of useful papers. 



