Mr Harvie-Brown on the Squirrel in Great Britaiii. 121 



but, in 1835, his father offered rewards for every squirrel 

 killed." * Clearly, then, the Dalkeith introduction had no 

 natural and direct influence here. 



I am glad to be able to record, with considerable exactness, 

 the date of the introduction at Minto, through the kindness 

 of my valued correspondent, Mr Malcolm Dunn, of The 

 Gardens, Dalkeith. He writes to me under date of 23d 

 December 1878, and I give here his communication in 

 full: 



" I believe," writes Mr Dunn, " I have been fortunate in 

 getting exact data in reference to its introduction to Minto, 

 and that part of the South of Scotland. ... A Mr 

 Thomas Inglis, who has been on this estate since 1826, and 

 whose father was a gamekeeper in Eoxburghshire in the be- 

 ginning of the century, where Thomas was born in 1805, 

 remembers distinctly that there were no squirrels in that part 

 of Scotland until about two years previous to his coming to 

 Dalkeith (say 1824). Before leaving the south, he was ac- 

 quainted with the gardener at Minto — a Mr Goodall, an old 

 Dalkeith man; — and when Inglis came to Dalkeith, Goodall 

 asked him as a personal favour to send him ' some squirrels,' 

 which he knew were plentiful here some years before, when 

 he was serving as a journeyman in the Gardens. This Inglis 

 was enabled to do easily, as he was then employed as under- 

 keeper ; and, he tells me, he climbed the trees and took the 

 young squirrels out of the nests, and after rearing them for a 

 short time, he sent some of them to Mr Goodall at Minto, and 

 the rest to his own father, who let them loose at The Haining, 

 near Selkirk.-f- This he confidently assures me he did in the 

 end of the summer (probably July or August of 1827), and 

 that, previous to this, the squirrel was unknown in the 

 south-east counties of Scotland. At Minto they were kept 

 for a year or two by Mr Goodall confined in a large cage or 

 small house, situated in the old orchard attached to the 

 gardens there, but ' somebody ' left the door of the cage open, 



* Loc. cii. 



t Making it still more unlikely that the Galashiels record (antea, p, 118) 

 was applicable to pioneers from Dalkeith. Two pairs, i.e. two males and two 

 females, were sent to each place — Minto and The Haining. 



