PROCEEDINGS—PERTHSHIRE SOCIETY OF NATURAL SCIENCE. lv 
WINTER SESSION, 1889-90. 
14th November, 1889. 
F. Buchanan White, M.D., F.L.S., F.E.S., President, 
in the Chair. 
The following donations were intimated :— 
Museum—Perthshire Collection. —Black-throated Thrush — from 
Mr. Robert Gloag. Nest and Eggs of Pied Wagtail, and Nest and 
Eggs of Garden Warbler—from Mr. J. Young. Three Ptarmigan— 
from Mr. Athole M‘Gregor, Eastwood, Dunkeld. Pied Partridge—- 
from Mr J. Stewart. Parrot Crossbill—from Lieutenant Millais, 
Birnam Hall. Stock Dove—from Mr. Steel of Blackpark. Perthshire 
Rock Specimens—from Mr, Donald Cameron, Paisley. Perthshire 
Plants—from Dr. F. Buchanan White. 
Library. —Greville’s “ Scottish Cryptogamic Flora” (4 vols.)—■ 
from Mr. T. G. Murray of Stenton. 
Mr. R. Brown, F.E., R.N., Delegate of the Society to the East 
of Scotland Union of Naturalists 5 Societies, gave a report of the 
Meeting of the Union at Alford. 
The President delivered the following Opening Address :— 
Gentlemen, —In accordance with my usual custom, I purpose 
devoting this address to a^ short account of the work done by the 
Society as a body, and by some of the individual members, since we 
last met. 
The first of the official excursions took place, as usual, on the 
Queen’s Birthday, 23rd May. Going to Stanley by rail, we proceeded 
to the Linn of Campsie, and thence worked down the west bank of 
the river to Stanley Mills, which, by the kindness of Col. Sandeman, 
we inspected. We then crossed to the east bank below Hell’s Hole, 
worked that bank down to Waukmill Ferry, crossed again to the west 
bank, and investigated it down to Perth. 
On the sandy ground near the Linn of Campsie, a number of 
interesting plants grow, but, at this time of the year, many were not 
yet visible. Amongst the more special plants noticed were Carex 
aquatilis , a new locality; Myosotis collina , on the trap-dyke which 
forms the Linn ; and Lupinus perennis. Though, perhaps, not abso¬ 
lutely confined in Perthshire to trap rocks, Myosotis collina is certainly 
more frequent on such rocks. The Lupin is an American plant,, 
which is now thoroughly established on the banks of the Tay from 
above Aberfeldy to below Perth, and should have—what it has not 
yet obtained—a place in our floras. It occurs on the banks of other 
Scottish rivers as well as the Tay. 
On the wooded bank between Burnmouth Ferry and Stanley 
House Veronica montana and Stellaria nemorum occurred as native, 
and Anchusa sempervirens and Doronicum Pardalianches as naturalised, 
