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eyes again. A friend of mine had a spill, but a schoolboy care- 
fully gathered up the larger spelks of the tram of the broken 
vehicle and made me a present of them, as he said, for my 
museum. My bad debts in the long period of my residence might 
all be paid with that current coin of the realm upon which is 
engraved the figure of the war-like saint vanquishing the dragon. 
5th April, 1895. 
Mr Tuomas M‘Kis, F.S.A., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
New Members.—Messrs John M. Aitken, Norwood, Lockerbie ; 
J. H. Edmondson, Riddingwood ; and William M. Maxwell, 
Bank House. 
Donations.—The Bulletin of the Geological Institution of the 
University of Upsala, 1893-4; the Annual Report of the 
Smithsonian Institution, 1893. 
Exhibits —Mr James Barbour, on behalf of Captain R. C. 
Fergusson of Craigdarroch, exhibited 13 burgess tickets held by 
the Captain’s predecessors, and also a diploma of admission to the 
Revolution Club, Edinburgh, 1755, to James Fergusson of 
Craigdarroch. . 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
1. Troqueer in the Olden Time. 
By J. G. Hamitton-Starke, M.A., F.S.A. 
The annals of the parish of Troqueer are to be gathered chiefly 
from the memoirs of the Rev. Mr Blackader, who was ordained 
its minister in 1653 ; from the Kirk-session records, which begin 
in 1698; and from the “Old and New Statistical Accounts ” 
written in 1791 by the Rev. Mr Ewart, and in 1844 by the 
Rev. Mr Thorburn, two of its parish ministers. 
But these accounts are more or less fragmentary, and the 
fullest history of the parish appeared in the columns of the 
Dumfries and Galloway Courter during the months of July, 
August, and September, 1878, in which the old authorities were 
revised, the minutes of the Kirk-session carefully deciphered, and 
for the first time most of them published, together with full 
information up to that year upon almost every subject of public 
interest within the parish. 
