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Aiig. 20. To Kilnane, examining the west side of Loch Gruinart. 

 The ruins of Kilnane Church interesting. 



Aug. 21. Examined the sands and marshes at the head of 

 Lochindal. 



Aug. 22. Visited the limestone districts of the interior, and 

 went through the wood upon both sides of the river along the Islay 

 House drives. 



Aug. 24. Returned to Glasgow by Tarbert and the Kyles of 

 Bute. 



Aug. 29. To Edinburgh. 



Aug. 30. Took lodgings at 19, Dundas Street (Collins), the same 

 person as I was formerly with under the name of Fairbairn. 



Sept. 3. Commenced arranging the European plants in the 

 Botanical Society's collection. 



Sept. 7. Brand and I went by Queensferry to Dunfermline to 

 visit Dr. Dewar, and went with him to Glen Devon. The river 

 passes through a very narrow and deep gully at the "rumbling 

 bridge." The glen is beautiful, and rich in Hieracia. Found Turritis 

 glabra on rocks on the left of the river, a little above the road to 

 Dunning, in a decidedly wild locality ; saw also plenty of Equisetum 

 umbrosum on the right hand side, a little below a fine waterfall near 

 a bridge close to the road. 



Sept. 8. Saw the fine old nave of the Monastic Church, built in 

 the time of Malcolm Canmore, Norman style ; in bad condition, and 

 a church in bad taste attached to it with extremely flattened arches 

 forming a cross. Saw also the Refectory, with a very fine west 

 window in good preservation, but only one side wall standing ; also 

 the stupendous ruins of the Palace ; and the old " dun " from which 

 the town derives its name, a very strong place on a lofty promontory 

 of rock. 



Sept. 24. Finished my work for the Botanical Society. 



Sept. 25. To Newcastle, by way of Galashiels and Melrose, and 

 over the Cheviot Hills. 



Sept. 26. To York before breakfast. British Association meet- 

 ing. Lodgings with Lankester, E. Forbes, and Percy at 2, Penby 

 Grove Street. " Red Lions " at Jackson's Hotel, Petergate. 



Sept. 27. Lord Fitzwilliam gave a dinner to nearly 200 of the 

 members. Most excellent. 



Oct. 5. To Cambridge. 



Oct. . Appointed upon the Provisional Committee of the Cam- 

 bridge and Lincoln railway. 



Nov. 6. Appointed Secretary of the Cambridge Philosophical 

 Society. 



