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chairman of this Committee, the credit is 

 mainly due for its appointment ; and when 

 it is stated that the Committee includes, 

 besides Lord Lovat, whose knowledge of 

 the subject is pre-eminent, such well- 

 known names as The Mackintosh, Mr. 

 Rimington Wilson, Lord Henry Scott, 

 Mr. Munro Ferguson of Novar, the 

 Marquis of Tullibardine, and others, 

 who are all intimately identified with 

 grouse matters, it will be seen that at 

 last there is a fair probability of the 

 problem set to them receiving final 

 solution. The labours of this capable 

 Committee will result, it is hoped, in a 

 complete presentment of the matter in all 

 its phases, an enlightening and convincing 

 account of the circumstances under which 

 the disease is contracted, and above all, 

 some definite and reliable guidance to 

 precautionary and remedial measures. 



In these pages reference has been 

 made to not a few matters of moor 

 management which are all highly advis- 

 able, and some quite indispensable to the 



