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THE SCOTTISH NATURALIST 



portion of Inverness-shire, the three taken together con- 

 stituting his vice-county 95, Elginshire. In 1870 an Act of 

 ParHament transferred the detached portion of Inverness- 

 shire to Elginshire in exchange for the southernmost 

 detached portion of Elginshire. The vice-county for 

 botanical and conchological work remains, however, as 

 Watson defined it, the difficulty now being to state in 

 words the southern boundary of vice-county 95. We shall 



Boundaries of Easterness. Boundaries of other Subsidiary Boundaries. 



Vice-Counties. 



Sketch-Map of Easterness and Elginshire Vice-Counties. 



have to content ourselves with knowing that it includes the 

 Dulnan Valley up as far as Elie, and that it includes 

 Aviemore in its south-east corner, and on the east the 

 Dorback Burn Valley with Nethy Bridge at its foot. 



All the work that has been done in Easterness has been 

 done by very few observers, viz. : — Alex. Somerville in 

 1886 and 1888; Rev. J. E. Somerville in 1887; William 

 Evans in 1889, 1891, 1892, 1893; Rev. R. Godfrey in 1904; 

 Thomas Scott before 1891 ; Charles Oldham in 1911, and 



