CHAPTEE LX. 



A Trip to Glasgow— Kelvin Grove Museum— Highland Association— A run to Rothesay- 

 Rothesay Aquarium. 



Favoubed by tlie most splendid Christmas weather [January 1878], 

 piercingly cold, indeed, but beautifully bright and clear, a run 

 from Lochaber to Clydesdale on an agreeable errand is exceedingly 

 enjoyable. Our first day in Glasgow was devoted to the Kelvin 

 Grove Museum, which we had now an opportunity, for the first 

 time, of examining thoroughly and at leisure, and with which, as 

 the reader may beHeve, we were very much delighted. On handing 

 our card to Mr. Paton, the curator, we were received by himself 

 and his assistant, Mr. Campbell — the latter, of course, a Highlander 

 — in the friendliest manner ; and a couple of hours were very 

 pleasantly and profitably spent in examining a really curious and 

 valuable collection, so admirably catalogued and arranged, that we 

 beheve we saw and minutely studied everything to be seen as 

 leisurely and satisfactorily as was possible in the time at our 

 disposal. Our friend Mr. Snowie, of Inverness, had written us 

 before leaving home that he was sending some contributions to the 

 museum, of which he begged us to undertake the formal delivery, 

 and see properly placed ; and this of course we had much pleasure 

 in doing. These contributions are a valuable acquisition to the 

 museum, and are as follows : — (1.) Hoopoe (Upupa epops, Linn.), a 

 female, in fine plumage, and admirably set up. This bird was 

 captured by the boys at the Inverness Eeformatory School, and 

 dying, notwithstanding it received aU the attention and kindly 



