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important acquisition, Avliicli is described as containing 

 " 20,000 specimens referable to 6000 species^ of wliich 

 150 are types." 



Abont the same time the Canon's large and valuable 

 collection of birds' eggs was disposed of to Mr. Philip 

 Crowley, of Waddon House, Croydon. At Crowley's death, 

 in 1901, it was directed that the Avhole of his collection 

 of eggs should be at the disposal of the British Museum. 

 All the valuable and important specimens of birds' eggs 

 in the Tristram Collection will now, therefore, be found in 

 the cabinets at South Kensington. 



Tristram's name and fame are well commemorated by 

 several birds that bear his surname as their specific title. 

 Among these the most appropriate to him is Tristram's 

 Grakle [Amydrus tristrami), discovered by the traveller 

 himself in the rocky gorges of the Dead Sea in January 

 1864'^. It belongs to an otherwise exclusively African 

 gi'oup of Starlings, of which it is the sole representative in 

 Asia, and was dedicated by Sclater to its discoverer. 



Tristram was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 

 1868, and was also a Fellow, !M ember, or Correspondent of 

 a number of other scientific and learned Societies at home 

 and abroad. 



On the 5tli of February, 1900, Canon and Mrs. Tristram 

 celebrated their Golden Wedding. After this epoch Tristram 

 dwelt principally at home in Durham, making occasional visits 

 to London, where he attended the Anniversary Meeting of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union in May 1903, and the 

 Dinner in the evening. Canon Tristram died "^ full of age 

 and honour " in his residence at Durham, on March 8th, 

 1906, to the great sorrow of a wide circle of relatives, 

 friends, and acquaintances, who apj)reciated the high 

 qualities and many-sided knowledge of this remarkable 

 man. — P. L. Sclater. 



* See ' The Laud of Israel,' p. 209. 



