Meeting report

Nearly twenty bryologists descended on the coastal village of Golspie in East Sutherland (vice-county 107), and disappeared into a variety of hotels, guest-houses, and self-catering accommodation. Along with unbroken fine weather throughout the week, this mixture of lodgings contributed in large measure to the pleasure of our holiday, for the advantages of roomy self-catering accommodation again became evident, just as they had two summers previously in North Aberdeenshire. Some members set up their microscopes in the drawing room in order to determine their gatherings comfortably and in companionable circumstances during the evenings after each day’s excursions, while those of us less allured by the prospect of work sank into the lounge’s soft settees with a cup of tea and planned the morrow’s outings.