A CONCISE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE PRINTED & MS. MATERIAL ON THE HISTORY, TOPOGRAPHY & INSTITUTIONS OF THE BURGH PARISH AND SHIRE PREFATORY NOTE THIS list does not profess to include all the classes of publications that fall within the province of comprehensive local bibliographies. It has no place for books or articles whose claim would rest, not on their subject, but either i. on their being written by local authors; or ii. on their being printed by local printers. Thus it will be found to contain James Suter's "Memorabilia of Inverness," but not his "Ordinance of Levites"; Young and Imray's" Northern Supplement to the British Almanack for 1802," but not "The Scotch Minister's Assistant," printed in that year by the same firm. With few exceptions, the books noted may be consulted in the Aberdeen University Library. This Inverness-shire list forms one of a group which was begun by Mr. Kellas Johnstone's "Concise Bibliography of the shires of Aberdeen, Banff, and Kincardine"; and which it is hoped will be continued by similar lists for Moray and Nairn ; for Ross, Cromarty, Sutherland, and Caithness; and for Orkney and Shetland. The counties named, from Kincardine to Shetland, constitute the district attached by statutory enactment (24 and 25 Vict. Cap. 107) to the University of Aberdeen. As will be seen from the Table of Contents, an attempt has been made to arrange the titled items in certain groups—such as those relating to each of the individual parishes comprised within the County of Inverness; to each of the older districts (Badenoch, Lochaber, etc.), whose boundaries are not coincident with parish boundaries; to the County as a whole; and to the Highlands generally, of which Inverness is the natural centre. Under "Inverness-shire" are placed items whose scope does not extend beyond the County, or items which, with a wider scope, have definite parts (chapters or sections) explicitly dealing with the County. Under "Highlands" are placed items which contain matter important for the student of Inverness-shire history, archæology, institutions, topography, or natural science, but not easily separable from the general text. It will be readily understood by anyone who has attempted such a classification, that the proper placing of an item is often a matter of difficulty and doubt, and the compiler asks indulgence for apparent omissions, which the Index (of over 3000 headings) will show to be merely transpositions (more or less defensible) from one Section to another. Certain topics, especially those admitting diversity of view, have already won for themselves the distinction of special Bibliographies; and such topics the present compiler does not attempt to exhaust. Two notable examples are the Forty-Five and the Ossianic Controversy. The compiler contents himself with selecting a few representative items dealing with the relation of Prince Charles to Inverness-shire, and of James MacPherson to his native parish of Kingussie. Other topics, such as St. Kilda and the Parallel Roads of Lochaber, have been treated with comparative fullness. Clan histories are, for convenience, placed with the parishes where the seats of the Chiefs are located-Mackintoshes in Moy, Camerons in Kilmalie, etc. In respect of form, the included items may be : i. Books or pamphlets, titled with heading and imprint in the usual fashion. ii. Articles in Magazines or Transactions of Learned Societies, cited with reference to the volume, the pages, and the date, not of the completed volume, but of the number in which the article appeared or of the meeting at which it was read. iii. Analytical entries from books of a non-serial character, which may or may not appear independently in the Bibliography-also with reference to volume and page. |