Being the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease
The Grouse in Health and in Disease Being the Final Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease
Smith, Elder & Co., 1911.
First edition. 2 Volumes. Large 4to. Original green grey cloth lettered in gilt on the spine. Colour frontis to volume I, which also has 58 further full page illustrations under tissue guards. Volume II comprises tabular appendices and 41 maps. A very good set, with minor wear to the extremities and sporadic light foxing. Front hinge to vol. I starting. Bookplates to each pastedown.
Although, as its name implies, the Grouse Disease Inquiry Committee was formed to investigate the nature and causes of the mortality which has been so prevalent of late years in the one species of game bird peculiar to the British Isles, it has accomplished a great deal more than this. For in the handsome volumes before us we have the life-history and organisation of the grouse, coupled with those of the various parasites by which it is infested, described in a manner never before attempted in the case of any other wild bird. This magnificent piece of work... is a striking, and we believe, a unique example of what can be done by the combined efforts of sportsmen, gamekeepers, field-observers, and biological experts; and to Lord Lovat, the chairman, and all those who have worked with him are due the gratitude of naturalists and sportsmen, not only in the British Islands, but throughout the world. [Nature, 26 October 1911]
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