PREFACE 



vigilance, but has, in his capacity as one of the 

 Editors, done perhaps some violence to his proper 

 judgement in allowing me unusual space for ex- 

 planatory or illustrative comment : superest ut nee 

 me consilii nee ilium paeniteat obsequii. Professor 

 D'Arcy Thompson, Troravos arro rrarpos, has given me 

 kindly counsel and — (^lAwv eXeyxov dxpevS^a-raroi — 

 the loan of books, and, in addition, read and an- 

 notated the proofs of the Cynegetica : those of the 

 Halieutica he was unhappily prevented by circum- 

 stances from reading. Conversations at various 

 times >vith some of my colleagues. Sir Edward 

 Sharpey-Schafer, Emeritus Professor Cossar Ewart, 

 Professor Ashworth, and with my brothers, have 

 been helpful. Dr. James Ritchie of the Royal 

 Scottish Museum has generously placed his know- 

 ledge at my service, and in these last days, when 

 I have been beyond the reach of books, Mr. P. H. 

 Grimshaw of that institution has supplemented 

 some gaps in my knowledge of Natural History 

 from Eels to Whales. In the same circumstances, 

 Mr. W. R. Cunningham, Librarian of Glasgow Uni- 

 versity, has at some personal trouble supphed me 

 with information otherwise inaccessible. My col- 

 leagues of the Greek Department in Edinburgh 

 University, Mr. J. A. FitzHerbert, now Professor of 

 Classics in the University of Adelaide, and Mr. 

 P. B. R. Forbes, have rendered me helpful services 

 of the most varied kind — jxaXLcrra 8e t ^kXvov avroi — 

 and in particular have read the bulk of the proofs ; 

 in which matter some assistance was given also by 

 Mr. C. J. Fordyce, of Jesus College, Oxford, as by 

 my eldest son, C. G. R., in connexion with the 

 Colluthus and Trj'phiodorus Index. Nor must I 



