| Americans Mike Conway and Andy Macfarlane and Ecuadoran geochemist Luis LeMarie were going to insert temperature probes, known as thermocouples, into the fumaroles. |
| The cloudberry, which grows on the tops of the highest mountains, is the badge of the clan Macfarlane. |
| In 1757 it built the Macfarlane Observatory and later Scotland's first public museum, the Hunterian. |
| When a freelance writer in his fifties or sixties once came in to pitch stories, uninterested senior editors shunted him down to Macfarlane. |
| Macfarlane made some ill-favoured jest about the farmer's wife, but it came hollowly from his lips, and was allowed to drop in silence. |
| In Bombay he is Chandra to Elspeth, Robert to Reverend Macfarlane, and Pretty Bobby to tawdry women around the Folkland. |
