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much labour to themselves, criticised and been through 

 the proofs. Mr. Harvie-Brown has also obUged me with a 

 number of notes on Gannets from " The Scotsman " news- 

 paper, by Mr. J. M. Campbell and others, which I hope may 

 one day see the light in a separate book-form. Nor are my 

 thanks less due to Mr. William Evans, of Edinburgh 

 (especially regarding the Gannet's parasites), the Rev. 

 H. N. Bonar of Saltoun, Colonel H. W. Feilden, Mr. W. H. 

 Mullens, Mr. H. S. Gladstone, and Mr. H. F. Witherby, 

 and particularly to that eminent etymologist the late 

 Professor Walter Skeat, whose knowledge of the meaning 

 of animals' names stood unrivalled. To Mr. Rothschild 

 I am indebted for an opportunity of examining his great 

 collection of Boobies at Tring, and to Mr. C. B. Ticehurst 

 for a translation of H. C. Miiller's article on the Gannet, 

 which is somewhat fuller than that by Professor Newton 

 (p. 266), as well as for a series of Notes on Faeroe Gannets 

 by Knud Andersen, extending from 1897 to 1902. Nor 

 must I forget that several eminent men in the United 

 States, including Mr. F. M. Chapman of New York, Professor 

 Verrill, Mr. William Brewster, Mr. H. K. Job, and Dr. F. A. 

 Lucas have courteously answered letters and queries. I 

 need hardly add that Mr. W. P. Pycraft's great 

 knowledge of comparative anatomy has been no small 

 help, but it cannot be said that anything like a perfect 

 description of the internal parts of the Gannet has yet been 

 published. 



Through the kindness of friends I have collected a large 

 series of Gannet photographs, from which those most 

 suitable for publication have been selected, but no one has 



