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INTRODUCTORY 
been compiled; but unfortunately all but two 
volumes were accidentally destroyed by fire in 
Australia many years ago. I recently discovered 
that two volumes in MacGillivray’s neat and care¬ 
ful handwriting remained in the possession of the 
family of the late Dr Paul MacGillivray, an eminent 
surgeon in Australia, son of the Professor; and 
having been allowed the privilege of perusing them, 
I found them to be of great interest and import¬ 
ance, and I shall make use of them freely in the 
following narrative. One of these volumes, the 
earlier in date, is titled, Journal of a Year's Residence 
and Travels in the Hebrides, by William MacGillivray, 
from 3rd August 1817 to 13 th August 1818, vol. 
i.; and the second, the later in date, is titled, Notes 
taken in the Course of a Journey from Aberdeen to 
London, by Braemar, Fortwilliam, Inveraray, 
Glasgow, Ayr, Dumfries, Carlisle, Keswick, Kendal, 
Manchester, Derby, and Northampton, in 1819, by 
William MacGillivray . 
I prepared a short sketch of MacGillivray’s life 
and work a few years ago, for private circulation 
among relations and friends who were specially 
interested in the preservation of his memory, most 
of these having been students in his Natural Science 
classes in Marischal College, Aberdeen. That 
sketch was the outcome of a movement then made 
and successfully carried out for the erection of 
memorials of him in Edinburgh and Aberdeen—the 
one in Edinburgh being a monument at his grave 
in the New Calton Cemetery, and that in Aberdeen 
