Bute Museum

Transactions of the Buteshire Natural History Society

If available, copies of recent volumes can be purchased in the Museum or ordered by post.

Dunagoil, Bute, re-instated	D W Harding	1
Bute Museum: a short history of the buildings and collections	Anne Speirs	20
Recent acquisitions of the Bute Museum:
Library	Jean McMillan	22
Archaeology and history	Anne Speirs	24
Natural History	Elizabeth Doig	26
Preliminary report on the excavation of a short cist burial, Kildavanan Farm, autumn 2002	Edwina Proudfoot	27
Old Extent in Bute and the meaning of the Merkland	Angus C Hannah	28
Early Cotton Spinning in the West of Scotland (1778-1799): Rothesay Cotton Mill	Stuart M Nisbet	39
From Clydesdale horse to tractor	Grace Hannah	48
The shops & businesses of Rothesay in the early 1950s	William M Sprowl	50
The Rothesay megaphone	James Merryweather & Anne Speirs	59
Woodlice and Waterlice on Bute	Glyn M Collis & V Dawn Collis	60
Notes on shells of the Bute shore	Peter Youngson	65
The land and freshwater molluscs of the island of Bute	J A Gibson	70
Recent notes on Bute butterflies	J A Gibson	91
The Marine Fishes of the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	93
Supplementary notes on Bute vertebrates	J A Gibson	99
The breeding birds of Inchmarnock: an evolving avifauna	Ronald W Forrester	108
The lapwing’s tale	Michael Thomas	121
Botanical notes	Angus C Hannah	123
Obituary: Alexandra Andrew Montgomery		125
Weather report, 2000-2003	Helen MacLeod	126
Indices to volumes XXIV-XXVI		131

Recent Acquisitions of the Bute Museum	Anne Speirs and Mollie Munro	1
Excavation of a short cist at Ascog	Edwina Proudfoot	5
A history of worship at the Townhead of Rothesay	Anne Buchanan	11
Kames Estate and Castle: Bannantynes and later owners	Jess Sandeman	14
Deserted Settlements on Bute
(i) The survey	Edwina Proudfoot	25
(ii) A Gazetter of sites	Angus Hannah	29
The Norman Stewart Institute: a short history	William Sprowl	57
Bute farm names with personal elements	Angus Hannah	61
The Rev J M McWilliam, Bute’s great ornithologist	Roger Ratcliffe	68
A bibliography of the natural history publications of Rev J M McWilliam	J A Gibson	78
Important plant communities of the Clyde islands of Great Cumbrae and Bute	James Merryweather	82
Additional notes on the butterflies of the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	91
Collected notes on the dragonflies of the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	93
Notes on the birds of the island of Bute: 1990-2000	Ian Hopkins and J A Gibson	106
Bute mammals: additional notes	J A Gibson	106
Weather report 1996-1999	Helen MacLeod	110

Obituary: Dorothy Nairn Marshall, MBE, JP, FSA, FSA(Scot)	Lexie Montgomery	1
Robert Thom’s Cuts on the Island of Bute	Ian Maclagan	3
A history of Public Water Supply in Rothesay	Graeme Connor	20
Ambrisbeg Hill: Enclosure and Cairn (Interim Report)	Anne Speirs	34
Isle of Bute Deserted Settlement Survey (Interim Report)	Angus Hannah and Edwina Proudfoot	37
Bronnoch: A Short Case-study in Settlement History	Angus Hannah	57
The Bute Museum Carved Stone Collection	Anne Speirs	60
Recording Bryophytes on the Isle of Bute	Katie Cocking	62
Silene Hybridisation in Bute	Ivor Gibbs	66
The Grasshoppers of the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	71
The Common Ground-hopper on the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	74
The Grey Squirrel on the Island of Bute	J A Gibson	75
The Clouded Yellow Butterfly on the island of Bute	J A Gibson	76
Weather report 1990-1995	Helen MacLeod	77
John, Sixth Marquess of Bute, KBE	Lexie Montgomery	84