86 CuurcH oF St. JoHN THE Baptist, Daury. 
to their airs and assigneyes whatsomever heretablie All and haill 
the Lands and Barony of Harlstoun with the Castle Tower fortal- 
ice manor places houses biggings yards Orchyairds Parks 
meadows dow-cats, Cuningars Coalls, Coallheuchs mosses muirs 
pasturages woods fishings tennents tennandries and services of 
free tennents milnes milnelands and astricted multurs used and 
wont with all their pertinents lyand within the parochin of Dalry 
Stewartrie of Kirkcudbright and Shirefdome of Wigtoun compre- 
hending the particular tounes lands patronage of St. John’s Kirk 
of Dalry teinds parsonage and viccarage of the said parochin and 
uthers specified in the said Signature x x x and all pertaining 
heretably of before to Mr William and Alexander Gordounes 
elder and younger of Harlstoune. 
13th March, 1896. 
Mr PHILIP SULLEY, Vice-President, in the chair. 
New Members.—Messrs James Barbour, Glendarroch, Dalry ; 
James Moffat, Bank of Scotland, Annan; John Neilson, Mollance, 
Castle-Douglas; Walter Ovens, Torr, Auchencairn ; Dr Rossie, 
Newabbey. 
Denations.—VThe Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific 
Society of North Carolina; the 29th Report of the Peabody 
Museum, Harvard University; and the Report of the Natural 
Science Association of Staten Island, New York. 
Lexhibits. -Mr Rutherford exhibited a whorl found on the 
farm of Lochbank, Newabbey ; and a flint arrowhead from Mani- 
toba. Mr Sulley exhibited.adder beads and charms. 
COMMUNICATIONS. 
I1.—A Scottish Idyl. By the Rev. Wm. K. R. BEDFORD, M.A, 
Ilayes, Kent. (Communicated by Mr. J. W. Whitelaw.) 
There is a pretty and somewhat fanciful painting by Millais, 
which was exhibited in the London Guildhall Loan Collection of 
1894, which represents a childish drum-boy, in the uniform 
