of Edinburgh, Session 1883-84 
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5. Remarks by Mr Milne Home on presenting Tenth Report 
of Boulder Committee, 21st July 1884. 
In presenting this the Tenth and Final Report of the Society’s 
Boulder Committee, I hope to be allowed to offer some explanations 
bearing on the work which the Committee has been able to accom- 
plish. 
The chief object for which the Committee was appointed, being 
to obtain from Scotland, generally, as much information as possible 
regarding boulders, the Committee could think of no better plan of 
commencing work, than by addressing circulars, first to the clergy- 
man, and next to the schoolmaster in every rural parish (including 
the Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland), asking whether any boulders 
of large size existed in these parishes'? — and if so, inviting informa- 
tion regarding such boulders, on points which it was expected 
might without much difficulty be imderstood and answered by .the 
parties addressed. 
The Committee were gratified by the readiness with which these 
appeals were responded to ; and I now, in name of the Committee, 
or rather, may I venture to say, in name of the Royal Society, beg 
to express our thanks for the courtesy shown to us by those who 
sent answers. 
Independently of information about boulders contained in the 
answers to our Circulars, the Committee discovered from many of 
these answers, the names and addresses of persons in different parts 
of the country, who, we were told, took an interest in the objects of 
the Committee, and who were even so obliging as to allow it to be 
mentioned to us, that they would be happy to show the boulders in 
their neighbourhood to any members of the Committee. These offers 
came not only from clergymen and schoolmasters, but from resident 
landed proprietors and others, who through the clergy and the 
schoolmasters in their several parishes happened to hear of the 
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