32 History of the Society. 



and 1 904- 1 905, which were issued in 1906, making altogether 

 a volume of four hundred and forty-six pages. I venture to 

 think that this is a practice not to be repeated, and that it is 

 essential in such a Society as ours to publish our Transactions 

 annually and in the same year in which the papers contributed 

 are read. Dr J. Maxwell Ross resigning the Secretaryship 

 in May, 1901, Mr Bertram M'Gowan succeeded him in that 

 appointment. He resigned in October, 1902, when Mr John 

 A. Moodie, who had held the office of Treasurer for some 

 years, took his place. On October i6th, 1903, " the general 

 adoption of a tentative agreement between the Society and 

 the Managing Committee of the Ewart Public Library, as 

 submitted by the Council, was agreed to, with the condition 

 that means be adopted by which members would be enabled 

 to borrow the books and periodicals belonging to the Society. " 

 On October loth, 1904, the Society held its first meeting in 

 the Ewart Public Library, a privilege it has since enjoyed. 



The volume now under review is remarkable for many 

 valuable contributions to the knowledge of our local Fauna by 

 Robert Service. As Secretary at its reorganisation in 1876, 

 he had done yeoman service to our Society, but his many 

 papers on the Fauna of the Solway Area have earned for him 

 a far wider fame and reputation as an eminent Zoologist. 

 Other notable papers were contributed by James Barbour, 

 George Irving, and Rev. W. Andson, Dr George Neilson, and 

 Messrs William Dickie and James M'Andrew. 



We learn that in 1904 the Society had accumulated funds 

 of ;£. 57 14s, and with this amount in hand they Mere able to 

 undertake the publication of the Transactions for the five pre- 

 ceding sessions. Mr S. Arnott succeeded Mr John A. Moodie 

 in the Secretaryship on June 2nd, 1905. The work was three 

 years in arrears, but by publishing the Transactions of this 

 period in 1906, Mr Arnott was thereafter able to publish 

 annually a volume consisting of the previous year's Trans- 

 actions. 



Session 1905-1906. (Vol. XVIH., Part L) [Vol. XXVIL] 



The rules of the Society as at present in vogue were 

 drawn up, or rather amended from previous regulations, on 



