ELGIN AND ITS MOLLUSCAN FAUNA 



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ELGIN: THE VICE-COUNTY AND ITS 

 MOLLUSCAN FAUNA. 



By W. Denison Roebuck, M.Sc, F.L.S. 



The vice-county of Elgin is not quite the same as the 

 political or civil county of Elgin, although it includes all the 

 territory which either is now or has been within the past 



Boundaries of Easterness. 



Boundaries of other 

 Vice-Counties. 



Subsidiary Boundaries 

 of Elgin, etc. 



Sketch-Map of Easterness and Elginshire Vice-Counties. 



hundred years Elginshire. The cause of this is the changes 

 made in the political county in 1870, the conchological and 

 botanical vice-county remaining as it was defined by 

 Mr Hewett Cottrell Watson. 



To illustrate this point I reproduce the sketch-map given 

 in my paper on Easterness. Here it will be noticed that 

 dotted lines divide the vice-county into three areas. 



