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Advertisements. 
April, 1898, 
To Subscribers, 7s. 6d. per annum. Post Free. 
The Annals of Scottish Natural History, 
A QUARTERLY MAGAZINE. 
Edited by 
J. A. HARVIE-BROWN, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S. Member of the British Ornithologists’ Union ; 
JAMES W. H. TRAIL, M.A., M.D., F.R.S., F.L.S., Professor of Botany in the University of Aberdeen ; 
WM. EAGLE CLARKE, F.L.S., &c. Natural History Department, Museum of Science and Art, Edinburgh. 
This Magazine— a continuation of •• The Scottish Naturalist," founded in 1871 — is entirely devoted to the 
publication of Original Matter relating to the Natural History of Scotland, and includes Papers con- 
tributing to the elucidation of the Fauna and Flora recent and fossil, Observations on Life Histories, etc., 
and Notes recording the occurrence of uncommon species and other useful and interesting facts. 
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A SKETCH OF THE 
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