Excerpt from History of the Molluscous Animals of Scotland: As Found in the North-Eastern District, Particularly in the Shires of Aberdeen, Kincardine, and Banff, to Which Is Appended an Account of the Cirripedal Animals of the Same District

The motives which induced me to collect the materials for this work, were such as, I think, may reasonably be approved of by those for whom it is intended. Having been recalled to my native place, in May, 1841, I naturally felt a desire of renewing my acquaintance with the productions of a district Often traversed by me while prosecuting my studies at the Universities there, and not being aware of any very important investigations having been conducted in this much neglected, though not un interesting, part of Scotland, with reference to its Zoology, I thought it might be useful to describe some or all of its numerous animals. I therefore at once commenced an examination of the Mammalia, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes, Mollusca, Insects, and Radiata, the results Of which I intend, in due time, to lay before the public. Thinking, however, that the pupils whom I have to initiate in the Science to which my labours have, for many years, been directed, could not acquire much practical acquaintance with most of these tribes of animals, in the winter season, when engaged with their various academical studies, I selected a branch of Zoology which I thought capable of affording them greater facilities for Observation than any other. I was further induced to undertake the work by remembering that a descriptive catalogue of the mo1 lusca of the district was a desideratum to the Zoologi'sts of other parts of the kingdom.

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