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INDEX 
Hen-harriers, 182-84; their flight, 
183 ; mode of hunting prey, 183 
Herald Expedition, 111 
Herminier, L’, on the scientific 
system of birds, 134 
Heron, the grey, 194 
Highgate, 52 
Hiliaire, St, Etienne Geoffroy, 147 
Horsley, 45 
Huie, Dr, his tribute to the services 
of MacGillivray, 85 
Humboldt, Alexander von, conden¬ 
sation of his travels, 86, 115, 118 
Huxley, Prof., 128 ; on the staff of 
the Rattlesnake , 111 
Inveraray, 34 
Invercauld Bridge, view from, 197 
Inverness, 173 
Inversnaid, 73 
Jamieson, Prof., his lectures, 57,60 
Jamieson, Dr Thomas, his geo¬ 
logical studies, 152 
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Katrine, Loch, 73 
Keen, Mount, 206 
Keith, Thomas, 103; his first 
lessons in science, 152 
Kemnay, 14 
Kendal, 44 
Keswick, 40, 42 
Kilda Isles, St, 157, 158 
Kincardineshire, 58 
Kindibig, Bay of, 172 
King’s College, Aberdeen, 6 
Kingussie, 32 
Kirk Alloway, 36 
Knox, Dr, 63 
Labrador, 169 
Laggan, Loch, 33 
Lagopus scoticus , or gor-cock, 208 
Lamarch, 147 
Lammer-Law hill, 159 
Lancaster, 45 
Langdale, 43 ; glen, 174 
Lapwing, the, 176 
Largo Law, eminence of, 161 
Lark, song of the, 128, 181; pur¬ 
sued by a hawk, 125-27 
Laurencekirk, 58 
Leicester, 50 
Leven, Loch, 35 
Lewis, 173, 174 
Linn, the, 29 
Linnsean^ and Cuvierian levels, 
transition between, 123 
Liverpool, 66 ; Museum, 79; 
criticism on, 80 
Lizars, Mr, publishes the American 
Birds, 67 
Lochfyne, 35 
Lochlomond, 35 
Lochnagar, 196, 197, 202, 206, 207 
Lochnaneun, crags of, 202 
Loewis, von, investigations on 
stoats, 131 
Loire, the river, 65 
London, walk from Aberdeen to, 
26-52 
London University, anatomical 
arid pathological collection, criti¬ 
cism on, 81 
Long Island, 173 
Lothian, East, 160 
Loughborough, 48 
Louisiana, swamps of, 168 
Lubnaig, Loch, 73 
Luskentir, 172 
MacGillivray, Dr Donald Wm., 
takeg his medical degree, 112; 
accepts the tenancy of the farm 
of Eoligary, Barra, 112; death, 
113; interest in the ornithology 
of the Hebrides, 113 
MacGillivray, John, 96; his scien¬ 
tific exploring expeditions, 111; 
explorations in Australia and 
the Pacific Islands, 111 ; death, 
111; his study of the habits of 
the Aborigines, 111 
MacGillivray, Dr_ Paul, 2, 106, 
111; his devotion to natural 
science, 112 ; settles in Australia, 
112; death, 112; monument to 
his memory, 112 
MacGillivray, William, his birth, 
1; at the island of Harris, vii, 
1, 4, 18 ; death of his father, 1, 6 ; 
his journals, 2; education, 4; 
study of Nature, vii, 5; at 
King’s College, Aberdeen, 6; 
study of medicine, 6; mode of 
spending his holidays, 7; fascina¬ 
tion for the study of botany, 7, 
25 ; his night journey from Blair 
Atholl to the Dee, 8-12 ; study of 
zoology, 13, 25 ; tour through 
