PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 297 
who knew George Don and had also met Drummond. He is 
over 80 years of age. Picked on the way J/alaxis paludosa and 
Gymnadenia albida. Botanised on the north side of Glen Dole. 
Kain came on and continued all day. The party were thoroughly 
wet. Several returned early. The party examined Glen Dole 
ully and gathered :— 
Silene acaulis Gnaphalium supinum 
Astragalus alpinus Saussurea alpina 
Rubus saxatilis Hieracium alpinum 
Dryas octopetala Lawsoni 
Sibbaldia procumbens Sdneiue alpinus 
Saxifraga oppositifolia Arctostaphylos Uva-ursi 
‘5 stellaris Pyrola media 
noides, var. Veronica saxatilis 
Epilobiink anpausttoidrn Salix reticulata 
pA alsinifolium Carex atrata 
alpinum Poa Balfourii 
Linmees borealis Festuca vivipara 
Erigeron alpinus 
Monday, 15th August 18 59. 
Several of the party this day were unable to take much 
exercise in the way of walking. The rest of the party started 
about 8.30 a.m. and crossed the bridge of Clova and then walked 
along the side of the Esk as far as the cottage where Isabella 
M‘Kenzie lives, a person who has neither hands nor feet. The 
deformity is congenital. The arms end in rounded extremities 
without hands. The arm on the right side is shorter than that 
on the left. The legs are deficient from above the knees. She 
is intelligent, reads well, and is able to write by hoiding a pen in 
her teeth. She was 38 on Sunday, 14th August 1859. In the 
house where she resided I met the daughter of the former game- 
keeper (now dead) at Loch Callater, in whose house I once 
stayed for a night and whom I often visited on botanical excur- 
sions. 
We then went on to Glen Fee, gathering in Glen Clova 
Malaxis paludosa and Hieracium denticulatum. Visited the 
Oxytropis cliff and gathered Oxy/ropis campestris in fruit and 
flower, Epilobium angustifolium, Woodsia hyperborea, This fern 
