Mar. 1905.] | BOTANICAL SOCIETY OF EDINBURGH. 83 
MEETING OF THE SOCIETY, 
Thursday, March 9, 1905. 
Professor I. BayLeY Batrour, President, in the Chair. 
On the motion of the PRESIDENT, the Fellows of the 
Society recorded in the minutes their deep sense of the loss 
they have experienced through the death of Mr. Patrick 
NEILL FraAsER, who for a long period gave freely his services 
to the Society as its Treasurer, and throughout his life 
promoted its interest in many ways. They desire to express 
their sincere sympathy with Mrs. Neill Fraser and family 
in their bereavement. (A copy of the record in the minutes 
was sent to Mrs. Neill Fraser by the HONORARY ASSISTANT- 
SECRETARY.) 
Mr. PERICLES JOANNIDES was duly elected a Resident 
Fellow of the Society. 
Mr. WILLIAM YOUNG read a paper on the “ Alpine Flora 
and Rarer Plants of Glenshee,’ and exhibited a series of 
dried specimens in illustration of the same. 
THE ALPINE FLORA AND RARER PLANTS OF THE 
GLENSHEE District. By WILLIAM YOUNG: 
Glenshee is situated in the extreme north-east corner of 
Perthshire—vice-county 89. It is best approached from 
Blairgowrie, from which it is distant about twenty miles. 
The hills on either side of the glen are of no great height— 
only from 2400 and 2600 feet above sea-level. The scenery 
is picturesque rather than grand. At the head of the glen 
is the Spittal, consisting of the inn, a few houses, and parish 
church. Here the glen branches; one arm—Glen Beag— 
striking due north, and through it runs the coach road to 
Braemar. The other branch is called Glen Lochaidh, which 
also gives off a branch parallel to Glen Beag, Glen Tatnich. 
There is no turnpike road through Glen Lochaidh, but a 
more or less well-marked footpath leads the pedestrian 
into Glen Tilt. There is also a footpath over the hills to 
