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The Grouse / in Health and in Disease / Being the Final 

 Report of the / Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease / 

 Volume I / with 59 full page plates, mostly in colour / and 

 31 illustrations in the text / Volume II / Appendices / 

 with 41 maps / London / Smith, Elder & Co., 15, Waterloo 

 Place / 1911 / [All rights reserved]. 



The eagerly awaited " Final Report of the Committee of 

 Inquiry on Grouse Disease," has now been published, and 

 seasonably enough was in the hands of subscribers two days 

 before the "Festival of St. Grouse." 



Those who received the Notes on the Grouse, an interiii 

 report of 71 pages, issued by the Committee in 1906, were 

 probably somewhat staggered by the bulky appearance of 

 the " Final Report," in two volumes quarto, containing 

 some 660 pages and upwards of 140 illustrations and maps. 



A cursory glance through these ponderous tomes will be 

 enough to assure the ordinary reader of the thorough manner 

 in which the Committee have set about their task, but it is 

 to be hoped that the mass of information which is thus pre- 

 sented to the public, may not lose its utility from its ver}^ 

 massiveness. In these days of hurry and scurry there is 

 a general desire to come to the point quickly ; and searching 

 for the needle of advice in the haystack of records and figures, 

 is an occupation reserved for the comparatively few. Had 

 Lord Lo vat's excellent remarks on " Causes of Mortality in 

 Red Grouse" (Chap. VII.), "Moor Management" (Chap. 

 XVIL), "Heather-burning" (Chap. XVIIL), "Keepers 

 and Keepering" (Chap. XX.), and "Stock" (Chap. XXI.), 

 been issued as one volume, and the remainder of the report 

 as the other, much practical advice would probably have been 

 more widely disseminated. In this way the labours of the 

 Committee would have more quickly borne fruit ; but perhaps 

 it is not impossible that some such brochure may yet be 

 prepared for the use of landlords, sportsmen, and their 

 employees who are not so foitunate as to be able to follow 

 Drs. Shipley, Fantham, and others readily in their pursuit of 

 T richostrongylus pergracilis and Eimeria {Coccidium) avium 

 through the intestines of the much-plagued Grouse. 



If we dismiss the objection that the work might more 

 usefully have been divided into two parts — ^the one scientific, 

 the other unscientific — ^there remain but few suggestions 

 to make on the work as a whole. Indeed, it is as a whole 



