of  the  non-observance  of  the  rules  by  any  one,  and  no 
reason  at  all  in  the  case  of  the  great  majority  of  the 
contributors. 
All  the  sheets  of  brambles  and  pansies  sent  in 
were  submitted  to  the  examination  of  Mr.  Rogers  and 
Dr.  Drabble  respectively,  as  requested  by  them. 
Valuable  notes  were  received  from  the  following 
experts,  to  whom  the  Club  is  much  indebted: — Mr.  E.  G. 
Baker,  Mr.  Arthur  Bennett,  Mr.  C.  Bucknall,  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Drabble,  Mr.  S.  T.  Dunn,  Prof.  H.  Gluck,  Mrs.  E.  S. 
Gregory,  Ml*.  J.  Groves,  Prof.  E.  Hackel,  Mr.  A.  B.  Jackson, 
Oberpfarrer  G.  Kukenthal,  Rev.  E.  F.  Linton,  Mr.  J.  E. 
Little,  Rev.  E.  S.  Marshall,  Dr.  C.  E.  Moss,  Mr.  H.  W. 
Pugsley,  Dr.  A.  B.  Rendle,  Rev.  W.  Moyle  Rogers,  Mr.  C 
E.  Salmon,  Dr.  Stapf,  Mr.  A.  J.  Wilmott,  and  Major  A.  H. 
Wolley-Dod. 
It  is  with  a  feeling  of  keen  personal  regret  that  I  call 
attention  to  the  loss  which  the  Club  has  sustained  by 
the  death  of  Mr.  Peter  Ewing,  who  had  been  a  member 
since  the  Club  commenced  in  1884,  and  whose  activities  in 
the  Club’s  work  are  very  noticeable  in  the  present  Report. 
Besides  a  wide  knowledge  of  the  flora  of  Western  Scotland, 
he  was  intimately  acquainted  with  the  mountain  flora  of 
Clova  and  Breadalbane.  He  was  a  prominent  member  of 
the  Glasgow  Natural  History  Society  for  more  than  thirty 
years,  a  member  of  its  Council  during  most  of  that  period, 
and  he  also  filled  the  office  of  Vice-President  for  some  time 
with  much  ability.  He  contributed  frequently  to  the 
Transactions  and  Proceedings  of  that  body,  exhibited 
specimens  at  its  meetings,  and  acted  as  botanical  leader 
of  its  excursions  on  numerous  occasions.  His  first  paper 
dates  as  far  back  as  1883,  and  characteristically  enough 
was  a  list  of  the  flora  of  Ben  Laoigh,  its  phanerogams, 
mosses  and  hepatics.  Several  ‘Contributions  to  the 
topographical  botany  of  the  West  of  Scotland  ’  appeared 
at  intervals  from  1887  onwards,  and  the  results  of  these 
were  embodied  in  the  “Glasgow  Catalogue  of  native  and 
established  plants,”  published  in  1899,  a  work  which  will 
always  be  valuable  for  reference.  During  his  later  years 
Mr.  Ewing  paid  special  attention  to  our  mountain  Carices , 
upon  which  he  held  views  of  his  own  which  did  not  always 
