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Secretary’s Report 1 
Treasurer’s Report Z 
The Home of Annie Laurie. --Rev. Sir E. Laurie ... 3 
Botanical Notes for 1894. J. M‘Andrew 10 
Kirkbean Folklore. 8S. Arnott ... WW 
Dumfries Sixty Years ago. R. H. Taylor 18 
Antiquittes of Dunscore. Rev. R. Simpson ... 27 
Colvend during Fifty Years. Rev. J. Fraser 38 
Birrens and Birrenswark. J. Macdonald 5D 
All that is known of Epictetus. KE. J. Chinnock ... 67 
Conversazione in January ... 72 
Emotional Expression. Sir J. Crichton-Browne 76 
Standing Stones of the Stewartry (Illustrated). EF. R. Coles 78 
Meteorology of Dumfries, 1894. Rev. W. Andson 84 
A Famous Old Battlefield. A. D. Murray 89 
New-Galloway Fresh Water Alee. J. M‘Andrew... 97 
Superstitious Custom in Galloway. J. M‘Kie 98 
Twenty Years’ Residence in Tynron. J. Shaw 99 
Troqueer in the Olden Time. J. G. H. Starke 107 
Incidents in Nithsdale during the Jacobite Rising of 1745. J. W. Whitelaw 117 
Mr Scott-Elliot’s Welcome Home. Addresses by Sir J. Crichton-Browne 
and Mr Scott-Elliot ... if iB Ch 08 ae .. 138 
The Forest Ruwenzori. G. F. Scott-Elliot ... 143 
Food Plants—The Cereals. P. Gray 146 
Old Annan. G. Neilson 152 
Field Meetings—Birrens. Addresses by Mr J. Barbour and Dr 
MacDonald me ae PORE ae a nee UG 
List of Members 187 
