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THIS is a compendium of essays, somewhat on the lines of the Victoria County Histories, dealing with the natural history, archaeology, and history of a district of north-east Aberdeenshire, known from ancient times by the name of Buchan. The essays, which are published by the local Field Club and edited by its secretary, are of varying degrees of merit. There are excellent essays on the geology of the district by Mr. A. W. Gibb and Dr. T. F. Jamieson. Prof. J. A. Thomson gives an admirable sketch of the fauna of the district and their origin. Prof. Trail deals with the flora in an essay which is chiefly concerned with pointing out the imperfections of the present knowledge of the subject, and urging the local botanists to complete the survey which he himself has so well begun. A valuable essay on “Stone Cists in Aberdeenshire” is contributed by Prof. R. W. Reid, to which are added tables of measurements of the skulls and limbs of the remarkable race which inhabited east Aberdeenshire in the late Neolithic and early Bronze age. Important contributions also bearing on the prehistory of the district at the same epoch are “The Prehistoric Pottery of Buchan,” by the Hon. John Abercromby, and “Some Notes on the Stone Circles of Aberdeenshire,” by Sir Norman Lockyer. These essays represent the latest views on these interesting archæological questions by acknowledged authorities.
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