Excerpt from Natural History Sport in Moray

It is now twenty years since the present Editor compiled these Notes on Moray, which were at once welcomed by all lovers of Nature 'like the scent of heather bells or breeze freshened from the wave.' It has long been his wish to prepare a new edition worthy of the Author and the subject, but year after year passed by without the means of gratifying it, as more pressing duties intervened, and if even at this late date he has in any measure succeeded in carrying out his idea, he has to thank Mr. George Reid R.S.A., who not only contributed his own beautiful sketched, made specially for the volume, but gave his advice and superintendence the other illustrations by this young friend Mr. J. Wycliffe Taylor, the materials for which were gathered during a joint expedition to the 'old province.' The Capt. St. John, who kindly placed at the Editor's disposal the Author's sketch books and other MS materials, not accessible when the previous edition was in preparation, his thanks are also specially due. He has used the sketch books freely, but has not thought it necessary to add anything beyond a few footnotes to the text as approved of by the two friends of the Author in 1862.

It was somewhat puzzling to know how to treat Mr. St. John's very vigorous pen-and-ink jottings - whether to have them prettily copied and 'improved' by a tamed draughtsman, or reproduced with all their roughness by photography.

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