PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 113 
Picked the usual plants known to grow in the district. 
Viola palustris Pyrola minor 
Geranium columbinum Corallorhiza innata 
Epilobium angustifolium | Listera cordata 
Linnza borealis (in flower) | Carex filiformis (not in fruit) 
Valeriana pyrenaica 
Trientalis europzea was not seen. 
Clova. 
Thursday, 18th July 1850. 
Party consisting of :—J. H. Balfour, John H. Aldrige, Samuel 
Harris Armitage, Edward Brewis, W. H. Broadbent, J. L. Brown, 
William Brown, Samuel Burd, W. Menzies Calder, Cuthbert 
Collingwood, James A. Currie, Charles J. Davenport, Andrew 
Dewar, Alex. G. Duff, David A. Eisdale, Henry Elliot, George 
Logan, R. F. Logan, Thomas S. M‘Culloch, Valentine M‘Master, 
John U. Matheson, John Matthews, David Milroy, John B. 
Nasmyth, David Ross, Eleazer Sherwood, David H. Stirling, P. 
H. Watson, J. Watt, John Wooley, met at the Northern Railway 
Station at 12 noon on Thursday, 18th July, and proceeded by 
train to Forfar, which was reached about 5 p.m. owing to delay 
of half an hour at Perth. Return tickets for each of the party at 
6s. 6d. Dined at Wm. Morrison’s Inn, Forfar, at 1s. 6d. each— 
and afterwards started at 6 p.m. for Clova, which was reached at 
11 p.m. There were two conveyances hired to go the whole way 
and remain till Saturday and return. These consisted of a car 
with two horses, holding 12 with the baggage, and a carriage 
with two horses holding 8 and some baggage. These two con- 
veyances, holding together 20, were hired from Thursday till 
Saturday for £7 10s., including tolls, drivers, and everything. 
Besides these there was a carriage and pair and a drosky which 
took some of the party half way to Clova, 
On reaching Dykehead, near Cortachy, those who had rode in 
the two latter carriages walked. [In all there were 12 or 14 who 
walked from Dykehead to Clova. 
