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location of these districts, while their exact relationship to counties is given in 
the following table (Table III.). 
TABLE III. 
Counties (with Districts). 
Aberdeen, 77, 78, 79, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84, 86, 87. Argyll, 100, 101, 102, 103, 104. Ayr, 23, 25, 
26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 36. Banff, 8,5, 86, 87, 90, 91. Berwick, 39, 42. Bute, 103, 104. 
Caithness, 97, 98. Clackmannan, 51. Dumbarton, 10, 12, 19, 22, 101, 105, 106. Dumfries, 35, 
36, 37. Edinburgh, 44, 45, 46, 47. Elgin, 88, 89, 90, 91. Fife, 50, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57. 
Forfar, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 72, 73, 75, 76. Haddington, 43. Inverness, 89, 91, 92, 93, 94, 99, 100, 
107, 108. Kincardine, 72, 73, 74, 75, 79. Kinross, 57. Kirkcudbright, 33, 34, 36. Lanark, 1, 2, 
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. Linlithgow, 48, 49. Orkney, 109, 110. Nairn, 89, 90. 
Peebles, 41. Perth, 51, 57, 58, 59, 68, 69, 70, 71, 76. Renfrew, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24. 
Boss and Cromarty, 93, 95, 96, 99, 108. Roxburgh, 37, 38, 39. Selkirk, 38, 40. Shetland, 110. 
Stirling, 10, 12, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63. Sutherland, 95, 96. Wigtown, 32, 33. 
This completed the work of organization, and the writer at once proceeded to 
carry out the survey. On the afternoon of the 7th December, 1903, the schedules, 
with instructions, leaflets stating fully the object of the survey, circular letters 
to teachers and addressed return envelopes* were sent out from Peterhead to 
3329f different school establishments in Scotland. At the same time an explanatory 
letter, setting out the objects of the survey, and the nature of the results 
expected to flow from the data about to be collected, was sent to all the leading 
daily and weekly newspapers in the country. Public attention was thus at once 
directed to the scheme approved of and circulated by a Committee which had for 
two of its members Professor (now Principal) Sir Wm. Turner, and Professor 
R. W. Reid, well known University teachers, and notable for their contributions 
in the domain of anatomical and anthropological science. The fact of having two 
such experienced and distinguished men associated with the survey, actively 
promoting it and directly recommending it to the teachers, has meant everything 
to the success of the undertaking, and has translated it from a desirable and 
important scheme on paper to an accomplished fact. The author can never 
sufficiently thank Sir Wm. Turner and Professor Reid for their solid backing of 
the survey, their hearty cooperation during the entire period from its inception 
until now, and for their uniform courtesy and kindness during the entire course 
of the many interviews the author has had with each. The proposed survey was 
widely noticed by the daily press, was favourably commented on and strongly 
recommended to the notice of the teachers. 
* These envelopes were addressed to 36, York Place, Edinburgh, when by arrangement with the 
Post Office, they were, as received, immediately sent on to Peterhead. The writer's examining work 
took him frequently to Edinburgh and permitted of this arrangement being carried out. On his own 
behalf and that of the Committee he has cordially to thank Mr J. Eutherford Hill and his staff for 
providing a collecting centre for the Returns and for the trouble and care taken in sending them on to 
their present resting place. 
t This was the apparent number of schools at the time. Several of these were afterwards found to 
be merged in other schools while a few were found to be extinct. 
