214 TRANSACTIONS AND PROCEEDINGS OF [Sess. lvi. 



State of Funds. 



Amonntof Funds at close of Segsion 1889-90, £63 13 5 

 Increase during Session 1890-91, . . . 6 9 



£69 14 2 



Being : — Sum on Deposit Receipt witli Union 



Bank of Scotland, . . . £60 

 Sum on Current Account with do. . 9 14 2 



69 14 2 



I Lave compared the above with the Accounts and Vouchers, and find 

 it correct. 



T. B. Sprague. 

 4th Dec. 1891. 



The following contribution to the Illustration Fund was 

 announced : — 



William Sanderson, £1:1:0. 



Presents to the Library, Museum, and Herbarium at the 

 Eojal Botanic Garden were announced. 



The Curator exhibited a flowering branch of Posoqueria 

 multifiora from the Eoyal Botanic Garden. 



The following Papers were read : — 



Excursion of the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club to 

 Tyndrum in 1891. By William Craig, M.D., F.E.S.E., 

 F.E.C.S. Ed., Secretary of the Club. 



On Monday, 27th July 1891, the following members of 

 the Scottish Alpine Botanical Club — viz., William B, Boyd, 

 Eev. George Alison, Eev. David Paul, Dr A. P. Aitken, Mr 

 G. H. Potts, and Dr William Craig assembled in Stewart's 

 Eoyal Hotel, Tyndrum, Perthshire, for a few days' botanising. 

 They were most comfortably entertained in the hotel, and 

 the charges were very moderate. 



Tuesday, 2Sth July. — This morning, after an early break- 

 fast, the party drove in a waggonette abcut 8 miles down 

 the valley of the Lochy on tlie way towards Dalmally, to a 

 point near the foot of Jicinn Laoigh. We ascended this 

 mountain from its west side, and were soon at the rocks. 

 The day was fine, and during our drive down the valley of 

 the Locliy we saw two golden eagles. 



