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38th Year of his Age / Leaving / An amiable and disconsolate 

 Widow and two Children. / This Monument is erected as a 

 small Tribute / By Simon Mackenzie, his grateful / And 

 affectionate Brother / 1782 / In Memory of / Marion Stewart of 

 Shambelly his widow / who died 1st Janry 1792 in the 41st 

 year of her age." 



W. P. Henderson, 2 Langlands. — Lithograph on Vellum 

 " Fac-simile of the National Covenant of Scotland, in its 

 original form, with the Autographs of the principal leading 

 Personages," Fr. Schenck, Lith., Edinburgh. Published by 

 John Henderson & Co., Edinburgh. 



John Jardine, town mason, Dumfries. — Upper Stone of 

 Quern, 16 inches diameter, from house in High Street above 

 the Rainbow Stairs. Chisel (3^ in. on face, 7 in. height), from 

 the Town Hall, removed after fire there. Nail (5J in. long), 

 taken from centre of large lime tree on Dock, cut down circa 

 1904-5. Sword, point broken, blade 7| in., handle 5^ in., 

 found in sod dyke at back of Noblehill School. 



John Barker, sanitary inspector and burgh surveyor. — Tavo 

 Whinstone Slates (11 in. by 7 and 9^ by 6i), found buried when 

 removing debris from the King Street area. Each has a pin- 

 hole half-an-inch in diameter at narrow end. These slates are 

 certainly of an ancient type, and may have come from th.e New 

 Wark, which was adjacent. 



PURCHASE, 



Key, much corroded, extracted from left hand jamb of outer gate- 

 way at Sweetheart Abbey by William M'Gauchie, Dumfries, 

 28th June, 1914. 



EXHIBITS. 



16th October, 1914. — Miss Carswell. — Admiralty Permit, dated 

 1765 and signed by Lord Howe, granted to Thomas Dalglish, 

 master of the brigantine "Chester" of Dumfries. 



27th November, 1914.— S. T. Parish, Bank House, Rotchell Park.— 

 An irregularly shaped triangular piece of hard-faced sand- 

 stone with a bored hole at the apex of the triangle. The edge 

 at the base of the triangle was, seemingly, artificially rounded 

 and flattened, but not sufficiently to reduce all the irregular!- 



