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History Society in Aberdeen, to which he com¬ 
municated a series of papers on the Natural History 
of Deeside; and in the lineal descendants of this 
old Society the MacGillivray tradition is still 
happily sustained, as it also was very effectively in 
the admirable work of the late Mr George Sim, 
author of The Vertebrate Fauna of Dee. Mac¬ 
Gillivray’s herbarium is carefully preserved in 
Aberdeen University by Prof. Trail, and some of his 
natural history specimens are still in the University 
Museum, though many have gone the way of all 
things brittle and stuffed. Some of the latter, it is 
interesting to notice, have been replaced by the 
pious hands of the great ornithologist’s nephew, Mr 
W. L. MacGillivray, of Eoligary in Barra. A 
MacGillivray Prize in Natural History, instituted 
recently by Mrs Beaton, the Professor s daughter, 
was gained for the first time in 1909 by a student 
who sent in a fine collection illustrative of the 
external characters of birds. In these, and in 
many other ways, we hope, the influence of one 
who worked strenuously and thoroughly remains. 
It is interesting even to inquire whether Charles 
Darwin himself was not influenced by the long 
Natural History talks he used to have when an 
impressionable student in Edinburgh with the quiet, 
but wonderfully attractive, hard-working Conser¬ 
vator of the College of Surgeons’ Museum—so 
full of first-hand knowledge — “ the accurate 
MacGillivray.” 
