152 THE NATURAL HISTORY OF AILSA CRAIG. 



APPENDIX A.— PROCEEDINGS. 



I. 7th June, 1893.— Exhibition of Birds' Eggs, etc., and Report of 

 Ornithological Excursion of 3rd June, 1893. 



II. 5th July, 1S93. — Exhibition of variety of Littorina littorea, L., by 

 Mr. James Steel. 



III. 2nd August, 1893. — Exhibition of Spiders, including Ailsa Craig 



specimens, by Mr. Frank L. Grant, M.A. 



IV. 6th September, 1893.— Exhibition of Photographs by Mr. James 



Mitchell. 

 V. 5th June, 1895. — Exhibition of Slow-worm (Anguis fragilis, L.) and 

 examples of the rock (syenite) by Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt. 



VI. 1st July, 1896.— Notes on Ailsa Craig by Mrs. S. Fingland, illustrated 

 by a series of photographs. 



VII. 5th August, 1896.— Glimpses of the Summer Bird-life of Ailsa Craig, 

 Inch Moan, the Bass and Isle of May (with specimens and photo- 

 graphs) by Mr. Hugh Boyd Watt. 

 VIII. 12th January, 1900.— Notes on Ailsa Craig by Prof. Geo. Bell Todd, 

 M.B. 

 IX. 6th July, 1900.— Report of Society Excursion of 24th May, 1900. 

 X. 6th July, 1900.— Further Notes on Ailsa Craig by Members. 



APPENDIX B.— REFERENCES. 



I. Aberceummie, William. Carrie/; in ibgb. Original not seen: 

 quoted in Paterson : s History of Ayr and Wigton (1864) II. p. 169 ; 

 Robertson's Historic Ayrshire (1891) I. p. 86; and Annals of 

 Scot. Nat. Hist. (1898) p. 112. Mentions Ailsa and albanacks 

 or Ailsa Cocks, tarnathans, solan-geese, wild doves and conies. 



II. Anderson, Thomas. See Gray, Robert. 



III. Balfour, J. H. "Account of a Botanical Excursion to Ailsa Craig 



in July, 1844." The Phytologist: a Popular Botanical Miscellany 

 (1845) II. pp. 257-65. Contains list of 79 species of phanerogams, 

 7 ferns, 14 mosses, 4 hepatica?, 19 lichens and 14 sea-weeds = 147 

 species in all collected. List is reprinted in Mr. Lawson's book, 

 infra XV. 



IV. Batters, E. A. L. See Murray, John. 



V. Brereton, Sir William. Travels in Holland, the United Provinces, 

 England, Scotland and Ireland in 1634-5 (1844) p. 118. Mentions 

 " Ellsey . . . abundance of fowl and solemne-geese . . . 

 and two earies of goose-hawks." ( Quoted by Landsborough and 

 Lawson as Brewster). 



VI. Bryce, James. The Geology of Arran and the other Clyde Islands, 

 with an Account of the Botany, Natural History and Antiquities, 

 Notices of the Scenery and an Itinerary of the Routes, 4th ed. (1872) 

 pp. 353-4. Geological notes ; and Mr. W. Newton MacCartney 

 mentioned as having collected 109 flowering plants, including 14 

 grasses, on Ailsa. See XI. infra. 



