THE INFLUENCE OF MAN ON ANIMAL LIFE IN SCOTLAND: A STUDY IN FAUNAL EVOLUTION. By James Ritchie

# 1920 1st edition. Large 8vo (163 x 238mm). Ppxvi,550. B/w frontispiece, photographs, illustrations, maps, charts, diagrams. Maroon cloth, spine titled in gilt.

# Title on spine is "Animal life in Sotland" A comprehensive, academic study of the interaction between man and animals and its outcomes, in Scotland, from the early part of the twentieth century. "..it might be possible to trace the different ways in which Man's power has worked and is working, and to realize to what degree a fauna of to-day owes its character and composition to his interference." Chapters include: Introductory - man and nature, Scotland as man found it; Part I Man's deliberate interference with animal life; The domestication of animals - sheep in Scotland, cattle in Scotland, the horse in Scotland, some lesser domesticted animals; Deliberate destruction of animal life - destruction for safety of man and his domestic stock, destruction for food, destruction for skins and oil, destruction of vermin and pests, destruction for sport, destruction for pleasure or luxury; Protection of animal life - protection of animals for sport, protection of animals for utility, protection of animals for aesthetic reasons, protection of animals through popular favour and superstition; The deliberate introduction of new animals - animals introduced for the sake of utility, animals introduced for the sake of sport, animals introduced for amenity; Part II Man's indirect interference with animal life; The destruction of the forest - Scottish forests in times past, causes of the destruction of the forest, effects of the destruction of the forest upon animal life; Influences of cultivation and civilization - decrease of animal life, increase of animal life, dispersal of animals, change of habits; Camp-followers of commerce, or animals introduced unawares - hangers-on of man and his domestic animals, stowaways on ships, skulkers in dry food materials, foundlings amongst fruit, creatures conveyed by plants and vegetables, timber transporters; Conclusion Chains of circumstance - a retrospect, some final conclusions, some indirect results, the recoil upon man of his influence upon animals.