Vol 13 - Dumfriesshire & Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian ...

8 Botanical Records for 1896.
there was some reeog-nition of an unnamed Almig-lity Deity, who
was uncreated and self-existent, but that in course of time the
attributes of this one God were represented and symbohzed by
natural objects, which became themselves the objects of super-
stitious reverence, and were worshipped as separate deities. It is
interesting to find, however, that in this very ancient religion
there was a belief in the immortality of the soul, in a judgment
after death, and in a future state of rewards and punishments
according to the deeds done in the body.
13th November, 1896.
Mr James G. H. Stakke, V.-P., in the Chair.
Donations and Exchanges.—The Chairman presented three
Dumfries bi'oadsheets of 1863 and 1865, and also copies of the
Society's Transactions for 1876-1880.
The Secretary laid the following on the table :—Annals of
the New York Academy of Sciences ; Proceedings of the Man-
chester Microscopical Society ; Proceedings of the x\.cademy of
Natural Sciences of Philadelphia ; Proceedings of the Sheffield
Naturalists' Club ;
Proceedings of the Cardiff Naturalists' Society
Proceedings of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club.
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Communications.
Botanical Records for 1896. By Mr James M'Andkew,
New-Galloway.
During my lasD summer holidays (1896) I botanized in three
different localities, viz., Carsethoru, in Kirkcudbrightshire, and
Glenluce and Sorbie, in Wigtownshire. In the hope that, as on
former similar occasions, the results of my work may be interesting
to other botani.>ts of the Society, I would now desire to make the
following few remarks : —
The three south-western counties have now been so fully
botanized and the results publicly recorded that comparatively
few new plants are likely to be met with in the district embraced
in the field of our Society's operations. My list of new finds for
;