PROCEEDINGS-PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. lxxvii 
About a dozen Members were present, in spite of a rather wet 
afternoon. 
6. On Thursday, 25th July, a party of our Members joined the 
East of Scotland Union of Naturalists’ Societies in a five days 
excursion to Kinloch-Rannoch. As this excursion will be reported 
on by Mr. Barclay at the meeting of the Union on 30th inst., I need 
not say more about it here, except to express my regret that I was 
unable to be present myself, as I was then attending the Conference 
of the Museums Association in Newcastle, on behalf of our Society. 
7. The last excursion of the season took place on Saturday, 10th 
August, when Little Glenshee, one of the clefts in the southern 
flanks of the Grampians, was visited. Mr. Barclay, who acted as 
leader, has supplied the following report of the proceedings :— 
Driving from Perth, the party, which, with addition of two who 
were picked up on the road, numbered about a score, proceeded by 
way of Moneydie and Murray field to the mouth of the little Glen¬ 
shee. A fair, bright, and pleasant day—quite a rarity during the 
past wet summer—cheered the hearts of all, and rendered it possible 
to enjoy the beauty of the very charming landscape which met the 
eye on every side during most of the way. On the roadside past 
Moneydie a patch of Agrimonia odoi'ata was found, and it would 
appear that this plant is not quite so rare in Perthshire as was at 
one time thought. Having crossed the great fault which separates 
Lowland from Highland Perthshire, the party left their carriage and 
took to the hills on foot. A visit was first paid to the slate quarries, 
which are, however, no longer worked. 
Strolling through the heather in the neighbourhood of the 
quarries some members were rather startled at seeing a big adder 
moving swiftly away almost from their feet. A blow from a stick 
killed the noxious beast, but unfortunately the blow was such that 
the dead animal was rendered useless as a specimen. Two others, 
however, were afterwards seen, one of which was killed and carried 
off to add to the Museum collection. 
After a short rest for lunch, which was enlivened by an interesting 
geological discussion suggested by the near neighbourhood of the great 
fault, it was resolved to follow the bank of the Shochie Burn up the 
glen for some distance. A slight deviation was made in order to 
avoid passing too close to a field in which were stationed over a 
hundred bee-hives. These are annually brought up at this season, in 
order that the bees may gather the rich honey of the heather which 
clothes the hill sides that hem in the glen. The banks of the burn 
do not possess a rich flora. The hills are too dry to nourish much 
besides heather and some few of the commonest moorland plants. 
Alchemilla alpina and Saxifraga aizo'ides were seen, and on a rock 
beside the burn a few plants of Epilobium angustifolium. 
On returning, the party followed up for some distance a small 
streamlet to where it forms a pretty little waterfall. Here Melica 
nutans was found, and above the fall, by the side of the streamlet, 
were one or two solitary rose-bushes belonging to the sub-species Rosa 
