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June 20. Home. 



June 27. We went to the Woolstreet, and found the flowers 

 peculiarly abundant. 



Aug. 1. To Braemar. 



Aug. 4. We met many friends, and were cordially received by them. 



Aug. 5. We attended a very small but interesting Scottish 

 Bible Society Meeting in the parish church. 



Aug. 6. We went through the fields to the upper bank of the 

 Clunie and the Dee, finding many interesting plants. In the after- 

 noon we met my old friend, Townsend, at Staples' house at tea. 



Aug. 7. It being a very fine morning we went with our friend, 

 Townsend, to the wood on the north side of the Morrone, and as 

 far as the Prince's Cairn, returning by the footpath. We found 

 many plants in flower which I had never seen in that state. The 

 season is late, and Ave are early. 



Aug. 14. We saw the Eubus Chamaemorus in flower and fruit. 



Aug. 18. We walked along the beautifully flowery western 

 bank of the Clunie, below the bridge. 



Sept. 4. A magnificent day, and we went to the top of Morrone, 

 and found an abundance of Azalea, also Jmicus trifidus and Vaccinmm 

 uliginosum ; also a few fruits of Ruhus Chamaemorus. This being the 

 day of the games, there was no bread baked in the place ! Townsend 

 brought me a new (?) Euphrasia, which he had found on boggy land. 



Sept. 9. Townsend went with us to Loch Callater, and we walked 

 along the Clova path, on the north side of the loch, to a little above 

 the entry into it of the burn. We found several Potamogetons and a 

 Chara and Callitriche washed ashore. The elevation is 1627 feet. 



Sept. 10. We drove to Derry Lodge, and then walked up the 

 Glen Derry to some distance, beyond the bridge over the stream, 

 returning to have tea at the keeper's cottage. It was a rather dull but 

 beautiful day for the walk of about four-and-a-half miles up the glen. 



Sept. 29. Left Braemar. 



Nov. 22. Sir Arthur Blackwood came to meet the Post Office 

 Association, and have a meeting in our house on Sunday, Nov. 23rd, 

 for University-men. I thank God for His infinite kindness in allowing 

 me this day to enter upon my eighty-third year. 



Nov. 29. Yesterday and to-day have been very cold (about 22°), 

 and snow. 



Dec. 14. Temperature 15°; 15th, 17°. 



Dec. 19. A heavy fall of snow ; six inches deep in the Botanic 

 Garden. Thermometer 19°. 



1891. Jan. 1. A thaw this morning, after a frost from Dec. 13th. 



Jan. 8. Another heavy fall of snow last night. The thaw of the 1st 



did not last more than for that day. There has been a frost ever since. 



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