"564 Miscellaneous. 



elm, its bark must be destroyed, and no power left of transmitting 

 its elaborated fluids to the roots. All the other trees are perfectly 

 healthy, and together form a top which at a distance seems one 

 well-shaped handsome tree. 



December 14th. — Professor Graham^ President, in the chair. The 

 following members were elected : — Resident, Mr Herbert Giraud, 

 Mr David Graham, Mr John Thomas Syme, Mr Emanuel Young. 

 Non- Resident, Dr Robert Hibbert Taylor, Dumfries. Mr Robert 

 Graham was appointed Local Secretary at Liverpool, and Dr Gilbert 

 M'Nab in Jamaica. 



The Chevalier Giovani Gussone of Naples was proposed by the 

 Council, and elected a Foreign Honorary Member. 



Specimens were presented from Dr Greville, Mr Percy, Rev. A. 

 Rutherford, Mr Edwin Lees, Dr Tyacke, Rev. W. S. Hore, Mr 

 J. Cruickshank, Mr William Reid. 



Dr Greville presented a beautiful design for a diploma, for which 

 the thanks of the Society were unanimously given to him. 



Dr Greville then read a " Notice of a Botanical excursion to the 

 Highlands of Forfarshire and Aberdeenshire." Dr Greville left 

 Edinburgh on the 16th of August, accompanied by Dr Balfour and 

 Mr Brand, — one of the principal objects of the party being to col- 

 lect specimens of the rarest Scottish plants for the Botanical So- 

 ciety. The party proceeded by Dundee to Airlie, and from thence 

 to the head of Glen Isla, which forms a part of the richest botani- 

 cal mountain district in Scotland. About three miles from Dundee 

 the true Rumex aquaticus of Linnaeus was observed to be not un- 

 frequent, the only station for which plant in the British islands, 

 hitherto recorded, being near Ayr, where it was discovered by Mr 

 Goldie. In Canlochen, one of the glens which terminate the head 

 of Glen Isla, were found Thlaspi olpeslre, Gentiana nivalis, Alope- 

 curus alpinus, Phleum nlpinum, Poa alpina, Erigeron alpinus, 

 Dryas octopetala, Veronica alpina, V. saxatilis, Epilobium alsinifo- 

 lium, Saussurea alpina, Sofichns alpinus, Juncus castaneiis, Car ex 

 atrata, Salix lanata, besides numerous other rare species in which 

 this glen abounds, and which so remarkably characterize and dis- 

 tinguish it from Caness, the other terminal branch of Glen Isla, — 

 the latter being as unproductive in the scarcer alpine plants, as the 

 former has been shown to be the reverse. From 19th to 25th 

 August, the head' quarters of the i)arty were fixed at the hamlet or 

 Kirktown of Clova, near the head of the valley of the South Esk, 

 from whence excursions were made to Glen Dole> Glen Phee, Loch 

 Brandy, &c. and a large accession of plants made to those already 



