CONTENTS 
Introductory 
PAGE 
...... 1 
CHAPTER I 
His Boyhood in Harris ..... 4 
CHAPTER II 
Aberdeen University Life — Study of Medicine — 
Fascinations of Natural Science ... 6 
CHAPTER III 
The Edinburgh Period from 1820 to 1831 . . . 60 
CHAPTER IV 
Conservator of the Museum of the Edinburgh College 
of Surgeons from 1831 to 1841—“ History of 
British BirdsAudubon’s “Birds of America,” 
ETC. . 
...... 62 
CHAPTER V 
Professor of Natural History in Marischal College 
and University, Aberdeen, 1841 to 1852—“ History 
of British Birds” Completed—“Natural History 
of Deeside and Braemar”—His Death . . 97 
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