316 Letters, Announcements, 6^c. 



a list of Bewick's publications. I can add the fact that he en- 

 graved figures for a work not named in this list ; for I have a 

 copy of "A New Family Herbal, or Popular Account of the 

 Natures and Properties of the various Plants used in Medicine, 

 Diet, and the Arts. By Robert John Thornton, M.D. The 

 Plants drawn from Nature by Henderson ; and engraved on wood 

 by Thomas Bewick. London : Printed for Richard Phillips, 

 Bridge Street, Blackfriars. 1810." The book is dedicated to 

 Dr. Andrew Duncan ; and the author when addressing him, after 

 alluding to his work * The Edinburgh New Dispensatory,-* in 

 speaking of his own says, " Nothing more was required than 

 simply to tread in your footsteps, adding figures by such an 

 artist as Bewick," &c. Of these figures there are more than 

 two hundred and fifty, some of them so well done as to lead one 

 to think that Bewick in some cases took them from nature rather 

 than from Henderson's drawings. 



I have never seen this work mentioned in connexion with 

 Bewick's name ; and as he did so much for the science of Orni- 

 thology, I venture to send you this notice of it. 



I am, Sir, your obedient servant, 



T. R. Ahcher Brigos. 



Museum, Trinity College, Dublin, 

 March 1866. 

 SiR,^ — In the ' Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Lon- 

 don' for 1861 (p. 400), mention is made of a specimen of the 

 egg of the Ivory Gull, Pafjophila eburnea, procured from Dr. 

 Baldamus, but no allusion to the existence of any other specimen 

 is added ; and, again, in the " Notes on the Birds of Spitsbergen " 

 in * The Ibis ' for last year, a translation is given (p. 507) from 

 one of Dr. Malmgren's papers on the same subject, of a para- 

 graph relating to the discovery of some more examples of the 

 eggs of this species; and there is prefixed to this extract the 

 statement that these were " the first well-authenticated specimens 

 brought to Europe." Allow me therefore to call your attention 

 to a very much earlier record of the discovery of the Ivory Gull's 

 egg, and one which I trust you will agree with me in consider- 

 ing to be equally well authenticated. 



