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Excerpt from The Grouse in Health and in Disease: Being the Popular Edition of the Report of the Committee of Inquiry on Grouse Disease The present volume is an attempt to give, in an abridged and popular form, the results of the results of the recent inquiry into "Grouse Disease," which were published last year in the Report of the Grouse Disease Committee. The need for a second and shortened edition of the Report became evident soon after the first edition had been published, for the whole of this first edition was absorbed within a few weeks of its publication, and, although the price was considerable, there would have been little difficulty in finding purchasers for at least double the number of copies available. It is impossible to reproduce the second edition on the same scale as the original Report, for the greater number of the coloured plates, which formed part of the work, have now been removed from the lithographers stones. It is also felt that those who ordered copies of the work, on the assumption that the original edition would be limited in number, are entitled to expect that this understanding would be respected, and that any subsequent publication of the results of the inquiry would not be a mere republication of the original Report. The Committee have, therefore, decided that a popular work in an abridged form should be issued. Such a volume cannot include all the elaborate coloured plates and scientific details which gave to the original edition much of its special value. The Committee have come the more willingly to this decision in view of the widely expressed desire that its conclusions should be made available to a larger class of reader than would readily purchase the more expensive and detailed work. 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.