EDITORIAL NOTES 



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Hitndred Years in the Highlands, forms a valuable con- 

 tribution to the history of Scottish animals and plants. 



Mr Charles Kirk, who died in Glasgow on i8th April, 

 was an outstanding taxidermist. The animal groups which 

 he prepared for the Royal Scottish Museum and other 

 museums, witness not only to the perfection of his art, but 

 to his love of nature, for they demonstrate an intimate 

 knowledge of the habits of the living creature, and were 

 the result of much painstaking labour and observation in 

 the open and in the workshop. No better monuments to 

 his memory could be furnished than his Golden Eagle, 

 Gannet, and Seal groups in the Royal Scottish Museum. 



Gannets and Young on Nests at Ailsa Craig, 



Photographed by Mr Chas. Kirk. This and similar photographs formed the 

 basis for the construction of the Gannet groii[) referred to. 



* The block of the above reproduction was kindly lent by Messrs Gowans and 

 Gray, Ltd., Glasgow, from their Wild Birds at Home. 



