swelling from both ends towards the centre on the other, the sides slightly incurved longitudinally, the ends alike and neither very sharp, the edge being in a plane at right angles to the shaft, the whole surface much weathered. It measures 61 inches in length by 2 inches in width, and closely resembles in form and character the fine implement of polished flint from Ferny Brae, Slains, Aberdeenshire, figured in the Proceedings, vol. x. p. 598, and also the adze-like implement from Little Barras, Drumlithie, Kincardineshire, figured in vol. xviii. p. 77. Adzes of this form are rare in Scotland, these being the only examples known. Five Arrow-heads of flint.

Small Saw of flint formed from a flat flake, 1 inches in length.
Scraper with tang, 2 inches in length by inch in thickness.

Eight Knives or implements with worked edges, one being triangular and worked on all three sides.

Large oval Scraper, 2 by 15 inches in diameter, and five smaller Scrapers; and a number of flakes and partially worked chips of flint. Collections of flint implements from Culbin Sands and from Glenluce

Sands.

The following Donations to the Museum and Library were laid on the table, and thanks voted to the Donors :

(1) By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart., M.P.,

F.S.A. Scot.

Bead of variegated glass (fig. 1), dark blue with a wavy line of paler blue going round the middle, and at equal distances. three projecting knobs with parallel stripes of red, white, and blue running in the direction of the projection of the knobs, found in a cairn at Kirkchrist, Wigtownshire. A bead precisely similar in pattern,

Kirkchrist. (1.)

but with the wavy line white, was found a good Fig. 1. Glass Bead, many years ago in Iona.

Spoon of horn, the bowl nearly circular and 24 inches in diameter,

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the handle broken, total length of bowl and handle now 5 inches, found in the Moss of Ringheel, parish of Mochrum, Wigtownshire.

Axe hammer of greenstone, wedge-shaped and perforated for the handle. It measures 83 inches in length by 41 inches in greatest breadth and 3 inches in thickness. The shaft-hole is 2 inches in diameter. Found at Drumfad, parish of Glasserton, Wigtownshire.

Axe-hammer of greenstone, wedge-shaped and perforated for the handle. It measures 84 inches in length by 44 inches in breadth and 23 inches in thickness. The shaft-hole is 24 inches in diameter. The implement is somewhat damaged on one side. Found at Mochrum, Wigtownshire.

Part of the frontal portion of the skull with one antler attached of the Irish Elk (Megaceros hibernicus) found in the river Cree. The antler is of the right side, and is imperfect; the beam measuring 101 inches in circumference at the junction with the skull, and 8 inches at the thinnest part before it begins to expand into the palmated portion, only a small part of which remains. The whole length of the beam and the imperfect palm is now 2 feet 4 inches.

(2) Bequeathed by the late Jons HAXTON, Markinch.

A collection of Bibles, Testaments, and Psalm Books, printed in English, 130 volumes. The following descriptive list is compiled partly from notes made by the testator himself :—

1. The Byble. Translated into Englysh by Thomas Matthew. 1537. Folio.

This copy has all the titles, but wants the preliminary matter. There are some leaves in facsimile, so that the text is nearly perfect. The disputed text in John's First Epistle, Chip. v. 7: "For ther are thre which beare recorde in heaven the father the worde and the wholy goost. And these thre are one," is printed within brackets in smaller type. In John xx. the words of Thom is, “and put my fingers into the, are omitted. In the First Epistle to the Corinthians x1. the words, This cup is the New Testament in my blood, are also omitted.

2. The Bible. Translated into Englyshe by Richard Taverner. 1539. Folio.

This copy is very imperfect, but wonderfully clean. It has all the peculiar marks of Taverner's translation. The first title I had as well as the colophon. The word 'peace' is always spelled 'peax.' The boards of the book are made of beech—a poor wood to use, so liable to worm.

3. The Bible in Englyshe. (Cranmer's.) Printed by Edwarde Whitchurch. 1541. Folio.

This is commonly called the Great Bible, and is the edition printed in November 1541.

4. The Byble. (Matthew's Translation.) Imprinted at London by Thomas Raynalde and William Hyll. 1549. Folio.

This copy belonged to Andrew Jervise, and has his autograph. It has very peculiar initial letters in Leviticus and Deuteronomy. In Jeremiah viii. 23 the reading is, "I am heuy and abashed, for there is noo more Treakle at Galaad." No other Bible that I know has this spelling.

5. The Byble. (Matthew's Translation.) Imprinted at London by John Daye and William Seres. 1549.

Folio.

This is a good copy, and almost perfect. The type is black-letter, angular and wiry. In the Book of Revelations there are twenty-two small woodcuts, of which the seventh to the last have each a rhyming couplet printed at either side. That at the seventeenth figure says:

The Romysche marchauntes, the priestes of Bal,
Do wepe, houle an crye at Babylon's fall.

6. The Byble. (Cranmer's.) Prynted by Edward Whytchurche. 1549. Small folio.

This edition has been printed apparently at two different times. It is in black-letter, and in some parts of the impression the words Lord and God are in Roman capitals, while in others they are in the common black-letter type without initial capitals.

7. The Vhole Byble. Translated into Englyshe by Miles Coverdale. Prynted for Andrewe Hester. 1550. 4to.

This copy is imperfect. It was printed in Zurich by Christopher Froschover for Andrew Hester "dwellinge in Paules Churchyard at the sygne of the whyte horse." It is very scarce. The type is an angular Swiss or German letter.

8. The Byble. (Matthew's.) Imprynted at London by Thomas Petyt, dwellinge in Paules Churchyard at the sygne of the Mayden's Heade. 1551. Folio.

A fine copy, nearly perfect. This edition was printed by Nicolas Hyll "for certaine honeste booksellers, whose names be upon their bookes of which the above was one." The notes appended to the chapters in Leviticus and Deuteronomy are not very decent and were never printed again after this issue.

9. The Bible in Englishe. (Cranmer's.) London, by R. Grafton and Edw. Whitchurch. 1553. 4to.

This Bible has possibly the smallest type of all early Bibles. It is most carelessly paged, as many of the early editions are. This copy has been made up of three different copies, one being a yellow one like that in the British Museum. Jeremiah viii, 23 has, "Is there not Treacle at Gilyad," which appears to be the first instance of this spelling. All the Bibles previous to this use Tryacle, Triacle, Tyricle.

10. The Bible. At Geneva; Printed by Rouland Hall. 1560. 4to.

This is the first of about fifty editions of the Genevan version, more commonly known by the popular name of the Breeches Bible from the rendering of Genesis iii. 7, "and they sewed fig tre leaves together and made themselves breeches." There are maps and woodents. This copy has the text perfect but wants the address to the Most vertuous Queen Elisabeth.

11. The Bible in Englishe. (Cranmer's,) Printed in London by John Cawood. 1561. 4to.

This is Cranmer's Great Bible in a quarto form. The principal title-page and the title-page of the volume of the Bookes called Hagiogropha (the Apocrypha) have Cawood's mark or monogram; the title-page of the New Testament has an elaborately figured border with top and bottom pieces representing the Last Supper and the betrayal in the Garden of Gethsemane.

12. The Bible, Genevan version. Printed at Geneva. 1562. Folio.

This is generally distinguished as the Whig Bible, from the error in Matthew v. 9: "Blessed are the place makers" for peace makers, The general title is dated 1562, the title of the New Testament 1561. It is said the Scotch Bible was taken literally from this, but the Bassandyne text has not the mistakes of this, nor the omission of Alpha and Omega in Rev. 1, §.

13. The Bye in Elyshe,

Grafton. 1566. 2 vols. Folio,

(Cranmer's.) Prynted by Ry hard

A colophon at the end of the Book of Job gives the date 1566, and “At the

cost and charges of Rychard Carmarden." The first volume is paged in three parts, and ends with this tailpiece: "The ende of the Ballet of Ballettes of Salomon, called in Latyn Canticum Canticorum."

14. The Bible. (Genevan version.) Printed at Geneva by John Crespin. 1569. 4to.

This copy was got in London after much research. It wants the general title and the dedication to Queen Elizabeth, and a leaf of the curious Almanac. The title of the New Testament is dated 1568. The text appears to be all right. It is beautifully bound by Riviere.

15. The Holie Bible. (Cranmer's.) Imprinted by Jhon Cawoode.

This is the last edition of the Great Bible. It appears that there were three editions of this size in this same year. This is the one that has the birds in the initial letter in Genesis, the others having a centaur. It has a note from a former owner signed A. E. E., and dated 1831, stating that he found it in Yorkshire, and connecting Cawood the printer with the Cawoods of Yorkshire.

16. The Holi Bible. (Bishops' version.) London, Richarde Jugge. 1569. 4to.

This is the second edition of the Bishops' Bible, and marks the transition to the division of the text into verses, these being numbered in the middle of the lines, or as they terminate. It is a thick volume, paged in three parts, the pages often wrong numbered, and contains some curious out-of-the-way notes about Columbus.

17. The holie Bible. (Bishops' version.) Imprinted by Richarde Jugge. 1572. Folio.

This is the second edition of the Bishops' Bible in folio, and is known as the Leda Bible, the subjects of the initial letters in some of the books being taken from Ovid's Metamorphoses. At the commencement of the Epistle to the Hebrews the initial letter is a woodcut representing Leda and the Swan. The type throughout is black-letter, but the Psalms are given in two versions in parallel columns, that of the Great Bible in black-letter, and a new version in Roman letter.

18. The holy Byble. (Bishops' version.) Richard Jugge. 1573. 4to. This copy wants the preliminary matter, but has all the text, and is in good condition. The tailpiece at the end of the Book of Revelations is an elaborate device with a pelican on its nest in the centre feeding its young with its blood, round which is on the inner border PRO LEGE REGE ET GREGE and on the outer LOVE KEPYTH THE LAWE OBEYETH THE KYNGE AND IS GOOD TO THE

COMMENWELTHE, with figures of Prudence and Justice on either side and the monogram of Richard Jugge underneath.