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The Scottish Naturalist 
Nos. 109 AND IIo. | moO [ Jan.-FEs. 
EDITORIAL NOTES 
A FEW weeks hence Dr W. Eagle Clarke will retire from the 
Keepership of the Natural History Department of the Royal 
Scottish Museum, and he thinks the time fitting also for his 
withdrawal from being one of the Editors-in-chief of the 
Scottish Naturalist. He intends to devote his leisure to the 
completion of new editions of Saunders’ A/anual of British 
Birds and Yarrell’s more sumptuous treatise on the same 
subject. Since he was selected to edit the former Svoftesh 
Naturalist thirty years ago, he has taken a leading part in 
guiding the fortunes and maintaining the standard of it and 
its successors, the Annals of Scottish Natural History (1892- 
1911) and the present Scottish Naturalist (1912-  ), and his 
colleagues fee] that no ordinary tribute is due to these pro- 
longed labours for the cause of the nature knowledge of our 
country. Fortunately, Dr Clarke will still give his services 
as an Assistant-Editor, and will continue to do all in his 
power to further the best interests of our magazine. Dr 
Clarke’s former place on the editorial staff has been taken, 
at the request of his colleagues, by Dr James Ritchie, who 
has, since 1912, acted as an Assistant-Editor, and to whom, at 
the Royal Scottish Museum, communications for publication 
should be sent. 
It would be ungracious, in mentioning these changes, to 
pass over the special services of Miss E. V. Baxter and Miss 
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