Cxlii PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. 
after. Very many were the excursions which Mr. Brown attended, 
and his genial companionship was always a source of pleasure to 
those who were with him. 
8. August 28, to Clatteringwell Quarry, Bishop Hill, conducted 
by Mr. James Patterson. Mr. Patterson reports as follows :— 
The party left Perth by the morning train to Mawcarse, where 
they were joined by some members who had cycled, and who made 
up the party to fourteen, eleven gentlemen and three ladies. From 
Mawcarse we took a bee-line to the top of the Bishop Hill, a spur of 
the Lomonds, striking off by an old road to Glen-Vale, and then by 
a cart road to the foot of Balgedie Hill, which we climbed by a zig-zag 
footpath. At the top is an outcrop of black igneous rock, and in one 
place a tall column has been left standing alone, and is known 
locally as “ Carline Maggie.” One of the ladies took a photograph 
of this rock. From this it is only a short distance to the Quarry, 
which is now disused. The limestone used to be quarried, and then 
rolled down a gully in the hillside, at the base of which it was burned 
in the kilns. The limestone is very fossiliferous, and the members 
were soon busy with hammer and chisel dislodging the encrinites 
from the limestone blocks. There was nothing of special interest in 
the botany of the hill, except perhaps some fine specimens of the 
Mare’s Tail, Hippuris vulgaris , which were found growing in a part in 
the Quarry. Laden with bags of stones, the party made their way 
down the hill to the village of Kinnesswood, which lies on a slope 
overlooking Loch Leven. Here they visited the house in which was 
born Michael Bruce, the poet, the author of the “ Ode to the 
Cuckoo,” and several well-known Scripture Paraphrases, and who 
died at the early age of twenty-one. 
After having tea in the hotel at Kinnesswood, the party walked 
along to Mawcarse, where they got the evening train to Perth. 
9. September 6th, to the Rumbling Bridge. This excursion was 
made the occasion of the annual re-union between our Society and 
The Scottish Natural History Society. At these gatherings, our 
friends from Edinburgh have generally been in the majority, but on 
the present occasion the reverse was the case. The valley of the 
Devon, from the Rumbling Bridge to the Cauldron Linn, presents 
some of the most romantic bits of river scenery to be found in Scot¬ 
land, and always well repays a visit, whether by the artist, the photo¬ 
grapher, the geologist, or the botanist. 
Before proceeding so far, however, a halt was made at Kinross 
Junction, where we met the friends from Edinburgh, and afterwards 
walked to Loch Leven. The Canadian pond-weed, Elodea canaae?isis , 
Michx, which is choking up the loch, and spoiling the fishing by 
preventing the pike from being kept within bounds, was particularly 
noted by the botanists. A hurried visit was also paid to the island 
on which are the picturesque ruins of Loch Leven Castle. 
Resuming the journey by train, the next halt was made at 
Rumbling Bridge, where we were met by a further contingent who 
had come by cycle from Perth. The whole party then made their 
