xiv PREFACE. 



Maclachlan, E. Caldwell, J. G. Millais, Oswin A. J. Lee, 

 Mrs. Spottiswoode-Brodie, and Messrs. Norrie of Fraser- 

 burgh, Stewart of Elgin, E. W. Buckley, and W. Douglas. 



To Mr. Colin Phillip we are obliged also for his lovely 

 sketch of the Cairngorm Mountains, and the diagrammatic 

 outlines which illustrate his admirable chapter — written 

 for our volumes — upon the Boundaries of ' West Boss ' 

 and ' Moray.' 



To Professor Traill of Aberdeen we are obliged for his 

 revisal of proof relating to Botanical and Entomological 

 names which appear here and there in our pages. 



To our friend Mr. W. Eagle- Clarke we are grateful for 

 much kind assistance and revisal of proof-sheets of the 

 Mammalia and Eeptilia ; to Dr. Bamsay H. Traquair for 

 his exhaustive Essay upon the Fossil and Extinct 

 Vertebrata; to Mr. Sim of Aberdeen for assistance in 

 certain directions with regard to the adjoining area of 

 'Dee,' principally as a side-light upon distribution; to 

 Mr. Lionel Hinxman for much help, and for his notes 

 upon the Geology of the Ladder Hills of Glen Livet ; to 

 Mr. Wm. Douglas for his interested and careful editor- 

 ship, and revisal of Gaelic names of places, and assimi- 

 lating ours with those given on the Ordnance Survey 

 sheets ; and to Mr. Lewis Dunbar for his good-fellowship 



