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THE AMALS OP SCOTTISH NATCEAL HISTORY. 



A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE, 



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JAMES W. H. TRAIL, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S. 



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This Magazine— a continuation of "The Scottish Naturalist,* founded in 1871— i« entirely deroted 

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 eonlrihuting to the elucidation of the Fauna and Flora recent and fossil, Obaecvations onXife Historte«, 

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