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CANON TRISTRAM. 



The Rev. Henry Baker Tristram^ Canon of Durham, 

 one of the founders and original members of the British 

 Ornithologists' Union, was well known as an author, a 

 traveller, a naturalist, and an antiquarian. It is, o£ course, 

 to his work in Natural History that Ave shall mainly allude 

 on the present occasion. 



Canon Tristram was Lorn on May 11th, 1822, at Eglin- 

 gham, near Alnwick, the large country parish of which his 

 father, the Rev. H. B. Tristram, was at that time Vicar. He 

 was educated at Durham School, and. afterwards at Lincoln 

 College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1844, taking a 

 second class in Classics. 



In 1845 Tristram was ordained Deacon by the Bishop of 

 Exeter, and Priest in the following year, having been 

 appointed Curate of M orchard Bishop. But, shewing some- 

 what alarming signs of a weak chest, he was ordered abroad, 

 and passed two years (1847-1849) as naval and military 

 chaplain in Bermuda. In the latter year he was nominated 

 Rector of Castle Eden, in Durham, and in 1860 Master of 

 €reatham Hospital and Vicar of Greatham, where he re- 

 mained until ] 873, when he was appointed Canon of Durham, 

 and resided in that city till his decease on the 8th of March, 

 1906. We will now turn to his ornithological and other 

 scientific work and publications. 



From his early youth devoted to Natural History, Tristram, 

 like many of us, commenced his writings on this engrossing 

 subject in the ' Zoologist,^ the first being '^ On the Occurrence 

 of the Little Auk in Durham,^'' published in 1853 (Zool. 

 p. 3753). Other short notes in the same periodical followed 

 in 1854, 1856, 1859, and 1861. His first visit to Algeria 

 was made in the winter of 1855-6, and in the followinir 

 winter, having acquired the favour of ^Marshal Raudon, the 



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