82 MR DAVID B. MORRIS ON 
In the Glasgow Catalogue of Native and Established 
Plants, by Mr Peter Ewing, published in 1899, the vice- 
county of Stirling is included, and by a tabular arrangement 
of records its Flora can. be compared with the botanical 
counties of the West of Scotland. 
I daresay you are all familiar with the exceedingly 
valuable botanical work done by the late Mr Robert Smith 
of University College, Dundee, and it is much to be regretted 
that he did not live to complete his Botanical Survey of 
Scotland. The two papers contributed by him to the 
Scottish Geographical Magazine, dealing with the districts 
of Edinburgh and North Perthshire with the accompanying 
maps, are the record of much valuable work. All that can 
be said is that the survey should be continued to include 
the whole Forth Valley. 
Let me sum up what I think requires to be done in this 
department. To trace and record for each plant its vertical 
range, its horizontal range, its habitat, its rarity or common- 
ness, its varieties, its local uses, and local traditions 
connected with it; to trace for the Flora, as a whole, its 
plant associations, its peculiarities and their causes, its 
relation to rainfall, temperature, sunshine, and prevailing 
winds, its effect upon scenery, its relation to the Floras of 
other districts, and its origin, particularly in relation to 
the geological history of the country—a sufficiently large 
order, you will be thinking. 
FAUNA. 
The birds of the Forth Valley have been worked up by 
several observers. I would refer first to the admirable 
collection of local birds in the Smith Institute at Stirling, 
and to a most interesting paper on these by Mr James 
Sword (Zrans, Stir. Nat. Hist. and Arch. Soc., 1893-94, 
p. 139). In that paper 121 local birds represented in the 
collection are dealt with, and the number has been con- 
siderably added to since. In an article by Mr W. Eagle 
Clarke, Edinburgh, in Pollock’s Dictionary of the Forth, the 
