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of Audubon, and he frequently acknowledges his in- 

 debtedness to him for information and specimens 

 which were of great importance to him in connection 

 with his own work. 



His book on the Rapacious Birds of Great Britain 

 was dedicated to " John James Audubon, in admiration 

 of his talents as an ornithologist, and in gratitude 

 for many acts of friendship." Although the two 

 men, as Dr. Coues says, were in most respects very 

 unlike each other, they were both men of generous 

 mind and warm heart, having common interests, 

 with reference to which each was willingly helpful 

 to the other, Audubon, no doubt, gaining most by 

 the friendship, which greater gain was willingly 

 and ungrudgingly conceded by MacGillivray to his 

 friend. 



MacGillivray and his family then lived at No. 

 1 Wharton Place, now no longer in existence, its 

 site being occupied by part of the buildings of the 

 Royal Infirmary. Their immediate neighbour was 

 the late Mr. Fraser, the successor of Dr. Neill of 

 Canonmills Lodge in his well-known, old-established 

 printing business. The MacGillivray, the Audubon, 

 and the Fraser families were on terms of close friend- 

 ship with each other ; and Mr. Alexander Fraser, 

 Wimmera, Bruntsfield Place, Edinburgh, lately of 

 Canonmills Lodge, son of MacGillivray 's friend, who 

 was then a boy, still remembers with pleasure the 

 friendly meetings in one or other of the three family 

 residences, and he specially mentions one such meeting 



