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cation to the proprietors of the land on which they were situated, 
to have them preserved. 
The Committee, in fulfilment of the first of these objects, issued 
a number of schedules to the ministers and schoolmasters of Scotch 
parishes. The answers received enabled the Committee to present 
a First or interim Report to the Council of this Society; which 
Report was read at a meeting of the Society in April 1872. 
The Committee have since continued their inquiries, and have 
obtained a considerable amount of additional information, the sub- 
stance of which they propose to give in the following Second 
Report. 
The additional information has been procured from three separate 
sources : — 
ls£, A considerable number of schedules, filled up by parochial 
ministers and schoolmasters, have been received by the Committee 
during the past year, several of which have been accompanied by 
sketches of the boulders. 
2d, Special reports on particular boulders have been received 
from surveyors connected with the Ordnance and also the Geolo- 
gical Survey. These reports are particularly interesting. 
3 d, Your Convener, in a tour during last summer through some 
of the eastern and northern districts of Scotland, took an oppor- 
tunity of inspecting some of the boulders mentioned in the 
schedules and reports received by the Committee, and ascertained 
many important facts. 
The Committee, in order to record the information recently 
obtained, will follow the plan formerly adopted of specifying it for 
each county in alphabetical order, and in the briefest terms. 
In now proceeding to explain the nature of the information 
received, the Committee desire to avoid as much as possible 
mixing up speculations with facts. But it is not easy to abstain 
from alluding to prevalent theories regarding the transport of 
boulders ; nor would it be expedient to do so altogether, as it is 
desirable to show how far those theories seem to be supported or 
disproved by the facts ascertained. 
I. Boulders. 
1. From the statements appended to this and the First Report, 
