4 MEMORIAL TRIBUTE 



is in perfection of good taste. Nothing could be 

 more appropriate as a memorial of the West Highland 

 ornithologist. The monument was designed and 

 executed by Messrs. S. M'Glashen and Son, Edin- 

 burgh, while the eagle was modelled and cast by Mr. 

 D. W. Stevenson, R.S.A., from MacGillivray's own 

 very fine life-like drawing of the golden eagle now 

 in the Natural History Museum, Kensington. The 

 vitality and power of expression in the drawing have 

 been rendered with success in the metal. The eagle 

 forming the frontispiece to this volume is a zinco- 

 colotype from a photograph of it. 



The tablet for Marischal College was designed by 

 Mr. C. R. Ashbee, architect, 37 Cheyne Walk, 

 Chelsea, and was executed by the Guild of Handicraft, 

 Limited, 16 Brook Street, London. 



It is a beautiful work of art, and is specially suitable 

 for its position in Marischal College as a memorial of 

 the famous ornithologist and Professor of Natural 

 History in that college. The inscription, in the same 

 terms as that on the monument, and in an antique, 

 picturesque and tasteful style of lettering, occupies 

 the centre of the plate, while the borders are filled 

 with natural history and botanical objects all in 

 conformity with nature the birds especially being 

 instinct with life, each exhibiting attitude and action 

 characteristic of its species. The borders are in open 

 work of beaten copper, partly bronzed and partly 

 gilded, shown effectively against a background of pale 

 red, while the whole of the remaining parts of the 



