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XVI INTRODUCTION.
The above scheme is as difficult as can be allowed with a
view to any practical good being intended to result from the con-
cession of Gaelic as a specific subject ; and, as such, we venture to
think, it is worthy of consideration in official quarters.
We must not close the introduction to this Volume, the
iimgnum opus of the Society, without refemng to its editor, our
secretary, Mr Mackenzie. Mr Mackenzie has been appointed
Principal Clerk to the Crofter Commission, and, although tliis
means the loss of his invaluable services to us, we sincerely con-
gratulate him on a step of advancement so well-deserved for his
unremitting energy in the Gaelic cause. Our very best wishes
follow him. His decade of work for the Society will be a proud
memory for him as it is, in the excellence of its results, an honour
to us. He has fitly cro^vned his woi'k by the energy of last
session, leaving to his successor the Gaelic Society in a condition
which, because flourishing and in good order, will be all the more
difficult to maintain.
Inverness, August 1886.