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these, and materials in his possession, Mr Gray intimated his inten- 

 tion of bringing out a memorial volume, containing all that Mr Graham 

 had written on the birds of Iona and Mull for the last twenty years. 

 On the motion of the chairman, it was unanimously agreed to record 

 in the minutes an expression of the regret with which the members had 

 heard of the death of Mr Graham, of whose interesting contributions 

 to the Society's Proceedings many of them retain a pleasing and vivid 

 remembrance. 



Memorandum. — November 1888. — " I have searched the accumu- 

 lated papers, correspondence, &c, in my hands, but have been unable to 

 find any MSS. or documents relating to Mr Graham's communications 

 to the Society, with the single exception of the letter dated January 

 16 [1852]. It seems highly probable, therefore, that all correspondence 

 and other papers were collected by Mr Gray, and set apart for the 

 preparation of the memorial volume referred to in the minute of 

 meeting of 24th February 1 874 — a work which he did not accomplish. 

 Unless the MSS. were returned to Mr Graham, and retained among 

 his private papers, or sent for publication elsewhere, I cannot account 

 for their absence both from the repositories of the Society and from 

 the documents collected by Mr Gray for the preparation of the memoir. 



" I regret that I have been unable to obtain any evidence regarding 

 the publication, in any Journal or Transactions, of any of the com- 

 munications read before the Natural History Society of Glasgow, but 

 which were not printed in its Proceedings. 1 D. A. B." 



1 Some of the Letters, as has already been stated, appeared in successive 

 numbers of Morris' Naturalist, and are reprinted in the present volume of Mr 

 Graham's writings. — Ed. 



