DUMFRIESSHIRE AND GALLOWAY

NATURAL HISTORY & ANTIQUARIAN

SOCIETY

FOUNDED 20th NOVEMBER, 1862.

TRANSACTIONS

AND

JOURNAL OF PROCEEDINGS

1918-19.

THIRD SERIES, VOLUME VI.

EDITORS:

R. C. REID AND MRS G. W. SHIRLEY.

DUMFRIES

Published by the Council of the Society.

1919.

President.

HUGH S. GLADSTONE of Capenoch, Thornhill, Dumfriesshire,
F.R.S.E.. F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., F.S.A.(Scot.).

Hon. Vice-Presidents.

S. ARNOTT, F.R.H.S., Sunnymead, Maxwelltown.
WILLIAM DICKIE, Merlewood, Maxwelltown.

G. F. SCOTT ELLIOT, F.R.G.S., F.L.S., Drumwhill, Mossdale,
Kirkcudbright.

Dr J. W. MARTIN, Charterhall, Newbridge, Dumfries.
Dr J. MAXWELL ROSS, Duntrune, Maxwelltown.
JOHN RUTHERFORD of Jardington, Dumfries.

Rev. S. DUNLOP, B.D., Bright's Crescent, Edinburgh.

Vice-Presidents.

JAMES DAVIDSON, F.I.C., F.S.A.(Scot.) Summerville, Maxwelltown
T. A. HALLIDAY, Parkhurst, Edinburgh Road, Dumfries.
G. MACLEOD STEWART, Catherine Street, Dumfries.
ALEXANDER TURNER, Glen Sorrel, Maxwelltown.

Hon. Secretary.

G. W. SHIRLEY, Ewart Public Library, Dumfries.

Hon. Interim Secretary.

JAMES FLETT. Hillhead, Bankend Road, Dumfries.

Editors of Transactions.

R. C. REID, Mouswald Place, and Mrs G. W. SHIRLEY.
Hon. Treasurer.

M. H. M'KERROW, 43 Buccleuch Street, Dumfries.

Hon. Librarian.

G. MACLEOD STEWART, Catherine Street, Dumfries.

Hon. Departmental Curators.

Antiquities-JAMES FLETT, Hillhead, Bankend Road, Dumfries. Coins and Tokens--JAMES DAVIDSON, Summerville. Maxwelltown. Natural History-Dr J. W. MARTIN, Charterhall, Newbridge, Dumfries.

Geology -- ROBERT Wallace, Durham Villa, Charnwood Road, Dumfries.

Herbarium-Miss HANNAY, Langlands, and Dr W. SEMPLE, Mile Ash, Dumfries.

Hon. Secretary, Photographic Section.

W. A. MACKINNELL, The Sheiling, Maxwelltown.

Members of Council.

The President; Vice-Presidents; Secretary; Treasurer; Librarian; Departmental Curators; Secretary, Photographic Section; and Miss M. CARLYLE AITKEN, Miss GORDON, Mrs R. MATTHEWS, and Mrs SHIRLEY; Messrs THOMAS HENDERSON, BERTRAM M'GOWAN, J. P. MILLIGAN, JOHN M.BURNIE, J. C. R. MACDONALD, R. C. REID, and F. W. MICHIE.