[38] Opening Address to Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1st December, 1862. The distinguished author expresses regret that a certain feeling of patriotism did not still keep a portion of the labours of the Scottish geologists for the Transactions of the Scottish Royal Society, and he makes a kindly and half prophetic allusion to my own probable removal to London. I may here say that I never forgot his words, and that I have considered it a duty as well as a pleasure, even when no longer resident in Scotland, to send some of the results of my researches to the Royal Society of Edinburgh. [39] This and the next paragraph are taken with some alterations from my _Life of A. C. Ramsay_. [40] _Journey of a Tour to the Western Islands_, 1757, p. 124. [41] Burt’s _Letters_, vol. ii., p. 28. [42] Burt in his _Letters_ says that he found these lines scribbled on the window with the initials A. H. at the end of them, and he conjectured them to be Hill’s. They were afterwards included in the poems of that writer, who seems to have had a passion for thus disfiguring window-panes, for he has collected a series of his verses ‘written on windows in several parts of the kingdom in a journey to Scotland.’ [43] From Boué’s _Autobiography_, which he wrote in French some time before his death, and printed in Vienna. It abounds in misprints, over and above those of which he appends a long list, and reminds one of the French of his _Esquisse Géologique sur l’Écosse_. He addressed copies of the work in his own handwriting to his friends, to be distributed after his death. Mine was not only inscribed to me inside, but the postal cover was also addressed by him, and I received it by post shortly after the news came that he had passed away. [44] The last wolf is believed to have been killed in Scotland about the year 1743 in the forest of Tarnaway, Morayland, by Macqueen of Pall-a’-Chrocain, a deer-stalker of great stature and strength (Chambers’ _Domestic Annals of Scotland_, Vol. III. p. 609). The fox is still common in many districts, where it is hunted with dogs and rifles. The wild-cat is becoming scarce, but continues to haunt some of the mountainous tracts of the Highlands. A number of captive individuals are kept in confinement at the Earl of Seaforth’s residence in Glen Urquhart. INDEX. Aberfoyle, Bailie Nicol Jarvie’s coulter at, 18. Accent, persistence of local, 368. Advocates at Scottish Bar, 148, 154. Ailsa Craig, legendary origin of, 420. Alexander, Rev. Dr. W. L., 19. Angling experiences, 288. Anstruther, 364. Arctic shells of Kyles of Bute, 362. Ardnamurchan, Point of, 163. Argyll, Duke of, 187. Arran, village ‘natural’ in, 332; Parliamentary election in, 362. ‘Aster’ steam yacht, 248, 255, 282, 284. Avoch, saint’s well in, 112. Ayrshire ministers, 67, 70; Sabbath observance in, 138; lairds, 190; miners, 116, 313, 336; witches, 336. Bailies in Scotland, 359. Bald Robert, 341.