PROFESSOR JOHN HUTTON BALFOUR. 401 
Asplenium viride Osmunda regalis 
Cystopteris fragilis Lycopodium Selago 
Lastrea Oreopteris i annotinum 
és zemula ‘i clavatum 
Polypodium Dryopteris os alpinum 
ve Phegopteris - selaginoides 
besides many alpine Musci and Lichens. 
Braemar 
Friday, 3rd August 1866. 
Party, consisting of J. H. Balfour, Thomas Barclay, Robert P. 
Colvin, Alfred T. Coore, Walter Dixon, P. Neill Fraser, F. 
Naylor, Orlando R. Prankerd, Wm. Stokes Shaw, Francis G. 
Smart, and James Thomson, met at the Scotland Street Station 
of the N.B. Railway, and proceeded by train at 6.25 a.m. to 
Perth and Aberdeen—having return tickets to Aberdeen avail- 
able for three weeks for 12s. 6d. Reached Aberdeen at 12.35 
p.m., and met Professors Struthers and Dickie, who, after lunch, 
- proceeded with us to see the town and Marischal College. Had 
a fine view from the tower of the College; the arrangements in 
the College are excellent. Saw the hall, library, examination 
room, and Anatomical and Natural History lecture rooms. Left 
by train at 2.40 for Aboyne. Return ticket, available for three 
weeks, 2s. Reached Aboyne at 4.49. Took up our quarters at 
the hotel (Cook’s). The evening being fine, we visited the 
Suspension Bridge and the grounds about Aboyne Castle. 
Gathered Campanula rapunculoides on the roadside. It was in 
considerable quantity. Had tea-dinner on return. 
Saturday, 4th August 1866. 
After breakfast, left about 8 a.m. in an omnibus for Ballater. 
Gathered Melampyrum sylvaticum there, then went by hired 
omnibus to Balmoral and visited the grounds under the direction 
of Mr. Paterson, the gardener. Then proceeded to Braemar, 
and took up our quarters at the Fife Arms Hotel (Hunter). 
