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University of St Andrews ; Mrs E. A. WILSON, and the Hon. GLADYS GRAHAM 

 MURRAY, F.Z.S. 



An Abstract of Accounts is annexed, from which it may be seen how the income 

 has been expended. 1 



The whole funds have now been exhausted in the work of investigation, and 

 there is no balance available to meet the cost of publishing the results. This is to 

 be regretted, as it will make it impossible to provide the supporters of the Inquiry 

 with copies of the Report free of charge. 



The thanks of the Committee are due to those moor-owners, shooting tenants, 

 gamekeepers, and others who have gratuitously given their services as corre- 

 spondents. 



The Committee have to acknowledge with thanks the support it has received 

 from its subscribers. A list of subscribers and the amount of their subscriptions is 

 given in Appendix B. 2 



The Committee have also to acknowledge their indebtedness to the Zoological 

 Society of London, which at the request of the Committee published in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Society the articles on Ectoparasites and Endoparasites of Grouse 

 by Dr A. E. Shipley ; the articles on the Protozoa and Blood of Grouse, by 

 Dr H. B. Fantham ; and the article on the Plumage of Grouse, by Dr E. A. Wilson, 

 comprising an important part of the scientific matter contained in this volume, 

 which is reproduced here by consent of the Society. They have also to 

 acknowledge their indebtedness to the Society for revising and editing the manu- 

 script of Dr Wilson's contributions on the Plumage of the Grouse, in the absence 

 of the author on the Antarctic Expedition. 



The Committee also desire to acknowledge its indebtedness to the heads of 

 the various Scientific Laboratories at Cambridge, where much of the research work 

 was carried on ; to the London School of Tropical Medicine who permitted 

 Dr Lei per to assist in the investigation ; and to the Directors and Staff of the 

 Royal Scottish Museum, who assisted the Committee in various ways during the 

 whole period of the Inquiry. 



1 Vide vol. ii., Appendix C. 



2 Vide vol. ii., Appendix B. 



August 1911. 



