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Rh University of St Andrews ; Mrs, and the Hon. , F.Z.S.

An Abstract of Accounts is annexed, from which it may be seen how the income has been expended.

The whole funds have now been exhausted in the work of investigation, and there is no balance available to meet the cost of publishing the results. This is to be regretted, as it will make it impossible to provide the supporters of the Inquiry with copies of the Report free of charge.

The thanks of the Committee are due to those moor-owners, shooting tenants, gamekeepers, and others who have gratuitously given their services as correspondents.

The Committee have to acknowledge with thanks the support it has received from its subscribers. A list of subscribers and the amount of their subscriptions is given in Appendix B. The Committee have also to acknowledge their indebtedness to the Zoological Society of London, which at the request of the Committee published in the Proceedings of the Society the articles on Ectoparasites and Endoparasites of Grouse by Dr A. E. Shipley ; the articles on the Protozoa and Blood of Grouse, by Dr H. B. Fantham ; and the article on the Plumage of Grouse, by Dr E. A. Wilson, comprising an important part of the scientific matter contained in this volume, which is reproduced here by consent of the Society. They have also to acknowledge their indebtedness to the Society for revising and editing the manuscript of Dr Wilson's contributions on the Plumage of the Grouse, in the absence of the author on the Antarctic Expedition.

The Committee also desire to acknowledge its indebtedness to the heads of the various Scientific Laboratories at Cambridge, where much of the research work was carried on; to the London School of Tropical Medicine who permitted Dr Lei per to assist in the investigation; and to the Directors and Staff of the Royal Scottish Museum, who assisted the Committee in Various ways during the whole period of the Inquiry.

August 1911.