220 Report of the Meetings for 1895. 



the Howietoan Fishery, 3000 eyed ova, for which I pay 10s. per 

 1000 ; these are laid on gravel, with a small run of clear water 

 over them, and they usually begin to break the shell the next day. 



They are sent by post, so that the 10s. per 1000 is all the cost. 

 After being hatched they are let off into the reservoir, and are taken 

 up to the Loch when they are two years old. This year I am 

 hatching some of the American Loch Trout, the Fontinalis and the 

 Irideus, or Rainbow Trout, which I trust may be successful. 



Such is the simple process of stocking a sheet of waste water. 



Botanical and other Notes. By Dr Hardy. 



Mr James Wood and I being unable to undertake the 

 walk by St. Abbs and the lengthened coast round, and 

 unwilling to be left behind, joined the Camp explorers for 

 part of the way, as far as Coldingham Loch House, and 

 devoted the short interval to a botanical survey of the east 

 end of the loch and the heights between it and the sea. 

 returning by the Uily Strynde to join the St. Abbs party 

 on its arrival. As a preliminary, it may be said that our 

 old friend, Rubus cmsius, was in fine flower in the rough 

 hedge skirting one side of the Coldingham Hill road. The 

 area of the cultivated ground on the height is extensive, 

 and mostly under crop. On the upper part it is generally 

 a moory soil, with a mixture of yellow and red, like that 

 productive of heather when in its original condition. This 

 was shown in the furrows where some patches of the 

 growing oats had acquired the red hue of the subsoil. Here 

 the prevalent weed in flower, where manifest, was Raphanus 

 raphanidrum or " Runch," not the Wild Mustard, Sinapis 

 arvensis, which is attached to a stronger soil. 



A fine covering of Fesluca duriuscula, in blossom, empurpled 

 the old grass field around the Loch House, not having been 

 cropped down by cattle. The tall white-walled house, the 

 former residence of Mr Robert Blair, Professor of Astronomy 

 in the University of Edinburgh, author of " Scientific 

 Aphorisms," is always a conspicuous landmark from afar. 

 It is very plain externally. There are a few old world 

 border flowers in the garden. West from it, in the open 

 area, is a small circular British Camp, with high outer and 

 inner walls made up of earth, boulders, and drift stones, with 



