124 PRIMITIVE MARRIAGE. 
Primitive Marriage. 
By the Rev. S. DuNLop. 
[This valuable anthropological lecture dealt fully with 
the classification into which scientists divide the early forms 
of marriage. The data on which the lecture was based were 
almost all drawn from savage life, the lecturer following in 
the main the conclusions of Tylor and other authorities. 
The Editors regret that, owing to the limitations of space, 
a full resumé of the lecture cannot be given. | 
8th March, 1917. © 
Chairman—WILLIAM Dickig, V.P. 
Crae Lane and its Vegetation. 
By Miss I. Wirson, M.A. 
The view towards Crae Lane from New-Galloway Station 
is across a stretch of uneven rocky moorland. Ina V-shaped 
depression it lies with Duchrae Bank on its right, sloping to 
meet Banks o’ Dee Hill. Centrally, at the mouth of the 
valley lies a wooded knoll, Holland Isle, beyond which, rising 
from Woodhall Loch, Crae Hill is seen, higher still Tormollan 
Hill. Circling Tormollan Hill and emerging from Lochen- 
breck is the Kenick Burn, which enters Woodhall Loch from 
the south. Crae Lane, known also as Woodhall Lane and 
Grenoch Lane, emerges from Woodhall Loch and flows in a 
northern direction through a valley, where every wifding | 
reveals an added beauty, eve:y gap is filled by some satisfying 
view of distant hill or nearer wooded knoll. In length, as 
the crow flies, Crae Lane is hardly a mile, its height above 
sea level being 200 feet. 
It will already be understood that ‘‘ lane ’’ here refers 
toa waterway. In Galloway it is the name frequently applied 
to a slow, winding waterway passing through bog or marsh 
