246 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 
Records of Measurements of Trees made in 1898 and 
1894, By Ricnarp M‘Kay and Joun Renwick. 
(With two Plates [II. and III. ]) 
[Read 4th September, 1894. ] 
For a number of years we have taken measurements of the larger 
and more interesting trees seen at excursions of the Society, and 
many of these measurements have been recorded from time to 
time in the reports which have appeared in the Proceedings. 
It may, however, be of interest to bring together, in a tabulated 
form, for the sake of reference, measurements made during the 
last two years, with, in addition, some others from various parts 
of Scotland: those of trees in the western counties being placed 
first. In the cases where we have earlier measurements of the 
same trees they also are given, so that some idea of the rate of 
growth may be obtained. In all cases the girth was taken at the 
narrowest part of the trunk within reach. 
The largest AsH trees observed at Society excursions were two 
near Mambeg Pier, on the Gareloch, girthing, in June, 1893, 
14 feet 8 inches and 14 feet 54 inches. These appear to be 
referred to by the late Rev. Robert Story, Minister of the Parish 
of Rosneath, in his report in the New Statistical Account, 1839. 
“In the contiguous farm of Membig,” he says, “ there is a deeply 
affecting spot by a beautifully sequestered little bay overhung 
with lofty trees, which cannot be omitted when noting the few 
antiquities, if they can be so called, which the ‘isle’ contains. 
There is, indeed, nothing seen there monumental of the doings or 
sufferings of man, only the green sward meets the eye, and no 
relics of any former age ; but who can look on it without emotion ? 
it is the traditionary burial-place of unchristened infants during 
the iron tyranny of the papal delusions. A sweetly-solemn 
seclusion, as if a dark and severe superstition, half-relenting its 
own uncharitableness, and yielding to a certain compunctious 
