Excerpt from The Scottish Naturalist: A Monthly Magazine Devoted to Zoology, With Which Is Incorporated "the Annals of Scottish Natural History" Though somewhat reserved and studious, he yet was a most agreeable colleague and companion, whether indoors or out of doors. No one enjoyed more than he the wild scenery of hill and moor, of forest and rocky shore; and he was equally at home with the grasses as with the insects and birds - ever ready to cap a remark with a quaint or humorous Scotch or Irish story, of which he had an inexhaustible collection. Again, many a quaint story he told at the Zoological Dinner of the British Association and elsewhere, at those of the Royal Societies' Club, and of the Royal Physical Society, Edinburgh. 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.