No. XXX.-New Series. OCTOBER, 1890. 



THE 



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A QUARTERLY 



MAGAZINE OF NATURAL SCIENCE, 



Edited by Professor JAMES W. H. TRAIL, A.M., M.D., F.L.S. 



CONTENTS. 



Page 



East of Scotland Union of Naturalists' Societies — Meeting at Montrose, . 337 



President's Address, ....... 338 



Excursion to the Woods of the Burn and 'to Edzell Castle, . . 345 



Excursion to St. Cyrus and Johnshaven. J. W. H. T., . . 346 

 The Geology of the Highlands, from Mount Battock, Kincardineshire, to 



the Village of Edzell, and thence to the Sea at St. Cyrus, . . 347 

 The British Association in its Relation to Local Natural History Museums. 



Prof. James W. H. Trail, A.M., M.D., F.L.S. , . ' . -349 

 The Willows of the District of the North-East of Scotland Union of 



Naturalists' Societies. F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., . 359 



New Records of Flowering Plants for North Aberdeen. Prof. Trail, . 366 



Revision of the Uredinese and of the Ustilagineae of Scotland — Prof. Trail, 367 



Dumfriesshire and Galloway Natural History and Antiquarian Society, . 373 



Paisley Practical Botany Class, . . . . . . 375 



Rutherglen Naturalists' Society, ...... 376 



Geological Society of Glasgow, ...... 376 



Glasgow Field Geological Society, . . . . . -377 



Aberdeen Working Men's Natural History Society, . . 377 



The Scientific Journals, ...... . 377 



Reviews, . . . . . . . 382 



Additions to List of Scotch Discomycetes. Prof. Trail, . . . 384 



Title-page and Index to Vol. IV., Neiv Series. 



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