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Mr A. S. Leslie, and, above all, to the chairman, Lord Lovat, whose knowledge 

 and experience and unbounded energy have succeeded in setting a new standard 

 in the books dealing with the health and disease of game birds. 



The Field, August ioth, 1911. 



The final report of the ' ' Grouse Disease " Inquiry Committee, which has 

 just been issued, is most interesting, and by far the most complete account of 

 the life-history of the Grouse in health and disease that has yet been published. 

 It is issued in two volumes. 



The report is full of valuable information both to the sportsman and to the 

 scientist ; it is handsomely bound, well illustrated, and will be a welcome 

 addition to all libraries, whether sporting or otherwise. 



The Scotsman, August ioth, 1911. 



Taking the two volumes together they form a most remarkable contribution 

 to our knowledge of the natural history of the Grouse, a contribution which 

 is the more remarkable in view of the fact that the whole of the funds available 

 for the purpose have not exceeded 4,806. 



While at this season of the year there is a temptation to linger over the 

 more practical portions of the report, to do so unduly would give a false 

 impression of the scope and aim of the material which has been gathered 

 together in it, and which makes it perhaps the completes! monograph on any 

 bird that has ever been published. Complete as it is, it has opened up many 

 lines of inquiry, many of them of distinct practical importance which still 

 await investigation. 



The Glasgow Herald, August ioth, 1911. 



Tli at the inquiry has been thorough in every sense of the term must be 

 apparent to any one who takes up any one chapter we say any one advisedly 

 of the twenty-three that make up vol. i., not to mention the maps and the 

 appendices that are reserved for vol. ii., with the fifty-nine full-page plates, 

 mostly in colour, and the copious illustrations in the text. If any further 

 indication of the thoroughness with which the work of inquiry has been 

 carried through should be necessary, we have it in the roll-call of the specialists 

 who have formed the scientific staff, of whom there were fourteen, every one 

 of them eminent in his particular sphere. 



The Dundee Advertiser, August ioth, 1911. 



At last the mystery of "Grouse Disease" is solved, and the whole details 

 of the great work whicli has been carried out by the Committee of Investigation 

 can he found in the two fine volumes published to-day under the title, "The 

 Grouse in Health and in Di>c;i-c." 



The book forms a complete monograph on the Red Grouse no fuller 

 and finer work has ever been bestowed on an individual bird. 



To the vast class of sportsmen, with no strong scientific bent, the chapters 

 on practical management of Grouse moors by Lord Lovat will appeal most 



