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the hill, which is now believed to be of prior date to the Roman 

 incursion. At the mansion-house of Castle O'er the members 

 were entertained to tea by Mrs Bell and her daug-hters, and 

 were shown the museum formed by the late Mr Richard Bell. 

 Professor Robert Wallace of Edinburgh University conveyed 

 the thanks of the visitors to Mrs Bell. 



The company then drove to Langholm, and after a sub- 

 stantial meal Mr William Dickie, Hon. Vice-President of the 

 Dumfries Society, presided over a business meeting. He 

 remarked that it was the first occasion on which the Society 

 had met since the lamented death of Mr James Barbour ; and 

 he moved that they should request Mr Shirley to enter in the 

 minutes a record of their sense of the great loss which the 

 south of Scotland in general and their Society in particular 

 had sustained, and to send an excerpt to his daughter. Mr 

 Barbour, he said, had been a member of the Society for forty- 

 six years, and during all that period he had been one of the 

 most frequent and most valued contributors to its Trans- 

 actions. He was a distinguished authority on archaeology ; 

 noted for the painstaking and accurate nature of his inquiries. 

 He had done much orig-inal work for the Society, and he was 

 ever ready to place his extensive knowledge at the service of 

 others. The motion was unanimously adopted. 



The Chairman further expressed the pleasure which it had 

 afforded them to make the acquaintance that day of the young 

 and vigorous Eskdale and Liddesdale Society, members of 

 which were devoting themselves to original work, and which 

 was giving promise of a very useful career. He specially 

 mentioned their indebtedness to Mr Clement Armstrong, the 

 Secretary, for having- carried through the arrangements at 

 that end, and to Mr Hyslop. 



Mr R. L. Copland and Mr Arthur Bell of Hillside recipro- 

 cated the expressions of good feeling, and voiced the hope that 

 there would be more joint meetings in the future. 



Leaving Langholm shortly before eight o'clock, the Dum- 

 fries contingent motored home by way of Canonbie, Long- 

 town^ Gretna, and Annan. For fuller report vide The Du>v. 

 fries and Galloway Standard, July 13, 1912, 



