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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[THOMSON 
plates, showing on the one plate the bird with its nest 
and eggs in situ. He is an assistant editor of the Scottish 
Naturalist , and prepared the Reports of the Aberdeen 
University Bird Migration Inquiry (1912-16) ; he also con- 
tributed notes on migration, etc., to the British Bird Book 
(1911-13), vide Kirkman (F. B. B.). He held the appoint- 
ment of assistant to the Professor of Natural History in 
Aberdeen until gazetted to a temporary commission in 
Princess Louise’s Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders. 
1909. Marking birds : Notes on the Work at the Rossitten Station. 
(Brit. Birds, li. pp. 362-7.) 
1910. Britain’s Birds and their Nests described. With Introduction by 
J. Arthur Thomson. Illustrated with 132 drawings in colour 
by George Rankin. London : 1910. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. xxviii + pp. 340, with 132 col. 
plates. 
1911. The Migration of the White Stork. (Brit. Birds, iv. pp. 357-60.) 
Recovery of Marked Birds (Aberdeen University). (Op. cit. v. 
pp. 103-5.) 
1912. Aberdeen Univ. Bird Migration Inquiry : 1st interim report, 
1909-12. (Scott. Nat. pp. 145-53, 169-74, 217-24, 241-8.) 
Thomson (John Arthur), nat. 1861 
Prof. J. A. Thomson was born in East Lothian, July 8, 
1861, and educated at Salton, Gifford, and the Universities 
of Edinburgh, Jena, and Berlin, taking his M.A. from Edin- 
burgh in 1884. He has been Regius Professor of Natural 
History in the University of Aberdeen since 1899. 
1910. The Fauna of Buchan. [In The Book of Buchan, etc., edited and 
arranged by J. F. Tocher.] Peterhead (The Buchan Club) : 1910. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to. Fauna at pp. 26-33. 
Note on a peculiar clutch of Blackbird’s Eggs and some other 
abnormalities. (Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc. Edin. xviii. pp. 95-7.) 
Scientific Appreciation. [In Life of William Macgillivray.] 
London : 1910. 8vo. 
[Introduction to.] Britain’s Birds and their Nests, by A. L. Thomson. 
London : 1910. 8vo. 
See Thomson (A. L.). 
