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relative to the Constitution of the Union, was unanimously 

 adopted. 



A vote of thanks to the President closed the proceedings. 



In the evening, the Aberdeen Natural History and Philoso- 

 phical Societies entertained their friends at a conversazione in the 

 University Buildings in Aberdeen. The University Museums 

 were thrown open ; and numerous microscopic objects and other 

 articles of interest were exhibited in the large hall and in the 

 Anatomical rooms. Among these were a very fine series of anti- 

 quarian relics from the North-East of Scotland, exhibited by Mr. 

 John Rae ; rare mosses, lent by Mrs. Farquharson of Haughton ; 

 botanical models, and a beautiful series of sections of wood so 

 thin as to permit of being exhibited by transmitted light; a large 

 collection of Crustacea, and another of food of fishes, both from 

 the North-East of Scotland, and both exhibited by Mr. Sim ; 

 and a collection of Lepidoptera from Aberdeen and Kincardine, 

 presented to Aberdeen University several years ago by Prof. J. 

 W. H. Trail. 



KEPOKT OP THE EXCUKSIOtf TO BEAEMAR. 



By F. BUCHANAN WHITE, M.D. F.L.S. 



THOUGH the excursion of the Union did not properly begin 

 till August 3rd, when the members met in Braemar, yet as 

 some of those who took part in it did some botanising on August 

 2nd, I purpose beginning this report with an account of that 

 day's work. 



August 2nd. — Arrived in the afternoon at the Spittal of Glen- 

 shee, and ascended Meal Odhar, in search of Garex rariflora. 

 My companion, Mr. Peter Ewing, believed that during a previous 

 excursion he had seen this interesting sedge within the Perth- 

 shire boundaries ; but as he was not sure of the exact line of the 

 march, it was desirable that, if possible, we should verify the 

 occurrence of the plant in Perthshire. This we succeeded in 

 doing. On the same hill we observed Veronica alpina, Loisel- 

 -euria procumbens, Sibbaldia procumbens, Poa alpina, &c. On 

 another hill Mr. Ewing showed me Epipactis ovaiis, which we 



