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Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History, 1904: A Quarterly Magazine; With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" Mr. Stevenson began his residence at Glamis when interest in fungi was very strong; and fortunately near the Manse was ground peculiarly rich for several years in numerous forms of the larger fungi. Soon he was prominent among the most successful discoverers of addi tions to the British lists of fungi, and Glamis became a very familiar locality to students of Mr. Berkeley's Notices. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History: A Quarterly Magazine, With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" And though it is said to occur off the Scandinavian and Greenland coasts, its precise range in the Northern European Seas has still to be ascertained, for it has to some extent been confounded with allied species. It is not uncommon in the Atlantic, except the north, being frequent on all the coasts of France, and occurs now and then in the English Channel. Regarding its presence in the Seas of North-Western Europe, Van Beneden doubts its occurrence in the high north and the shores of Greenland, and remarks that it is positively rare on the coasts of Scotland and Denmark, and that it is also rare in the North Sea. According to Lilljeborg and Reinhardt, however, it is occasionally met with on the coasts of Denmark and Norway. - ED.] Bottle-Nosed Whale (Hyperoodon rostratus) On The South-East Coast Of Scotland. Since the publication of Sir Wm. Turner's account of this species in Scottish seas("Proc. Roy. Phys. Soc.," 1885-86, vol. ix.), the following specimens have occurred. A specimen about 26 feet long was stranded 21/2 miles to the west of Bo'ness, on the south shore of the Firth of Forth, on the 12th October 1895. Eight days afterwards I saw the animal lying on the shore, but it was so much mutilated that I could not make out the sex from external appearances. On the morning of 1st November 1895 a young female, 15 feet 10 inches long, was found dead on the shore, perfectly fresh, about a quarter of a mile east of the Redheugh Coastguard Station, and 4 1/9 miles eastward from Cockburnspath, Berwickshire. Except the belly, which was of a dark gray colour, the rest of the animal was black. It was advertised for sale by the Receiver of Wrecks of H.M. Customs, but failed to find a purchaser. It will therefore be cut up and buried near where it came ashore. In March 1894 a male specimen of H. rostratus, not quite so long as the above, was stranded at Grangemouth, Firth of Forth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from The Annals of Scottish Natural History, 1892: A Quarterly Magazine, With Which Is Incorporated "the Scottish Naturalist" IN this, the first number of The Annals of Scottish Natural History, a brief statement regarding the important part it is hoped the new magazine will fulfil in furthering the progress of Natural History in Scotland, may not be considered inappropriate. Limited as our pages must be to original matter relating to the Biology of Scotland, Recent and Fossil, it is evident that they cannot and should not be devoted to general ques tions relating to minute anatomy and physiology, for such more fitly find a. Place in Journals and Transactions of less restricted scope. Nor are monographs of a purely systematic nature, dealing with subjects not strictly Scottish, suitable for our Magazine. Yet, despite these restrictions, the field of work is both wide and varied, and there should, indeed, be no lack of Papers and Notes of value and interest to our readers, and ample room for The Annals in the serial literature of British Natural History. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.