The editor would like to acknowledge the assistance he received in compiling the book and in securing advertising. Thanks are also expressed respectively to Kathy Leask and Jackie Moir, for typing the bulk of the manuscript, and to John Fraser for checking over the proofs.

For providing invaluable back issues of Association Handbooks, David Jones and Howard Smith are accorded special mention, as are Ian McCrae, Ian Sutherland, James Hay, Doug Burr, Norman Brownlee and Max Innes for the photographs loaned. However, without his lovingly maintained book of abstracts from Association meetings from 1884 to 1946 the history of the Association up to the end of the Second World War would have been difficult if not impossible to produce and for this an enormous debt of gratitude is owed to the late Jimmy Sutherland of Balmoral Cricket Club.

Aberdeenshire Cricket Association would also like to express gratitude to the firms advertising in this book and to the Harper Motor Co Ltd and Mobil North Sea Ltd for the sponsorship they gave. For their aid in obtaining this financial assistance grateful thanks is expressed to Danny Cohen, Gordon Davidson, Ritchie Dinnes and Ean Mackie.