352 Ohiivary. 



with whom he had remained in constant touch ever 

 since their first meeting at Cambridge in 1848. The two 

 comrades started from Hull late in May, and, owing to most 

 unseasonable weather^ missed the steamer connexion along 

 the Norwegian coast, and so were taken on to Christiania, 

 whence they proceeded overland in a great hurry to 

 Trondhjem, just in time to catch the coasting-steamer that 

 was to take them on to Hammerfest. 



When, after an interval often days, the rolling 'Gyller'' 

 at length arrived in port, two Englishmen, Scott and Torr, 

 were on board, and a merry party of four rounded the 

 Nordkyn together, and ultimately reached Vadso in the 

 Varanger Fjord, where the hero of Lapland ornithology, 

 John Wolley, shortly made his appearance, fresh from a 

 fortnight's excursion up the Pasvig, in Russian Finland, and 

 this, too, during the Crimean War. The party of three 

 ornithologists, being now complete, lost no time in making 

 their way up the Varanger Fjord, and thence to the valley 

 of the Tana, and so round by the Tana Fjord to Vadso 

 again. There is no need for any ornithological details, as 

 these may be gathered from the writings of Wolley and 

 Newton, and also from the pages of ' Hewitson.' The same 

 remark applies to the still more prolific region of Central 

 Lapland, at Muoniovara, for instance, which Wolley had 

 made his home. The 'Ootheca Wolley ana ■" should especially 

 be consulted, for there each egg has its history. 



The return journey commenced towards the middle of 

 July, when the three friends committed themselves once more 

 to the rolling ^Gyller,' and were landed at a place on the 

 Lyngen Fjord, whence they made their way across the water- 

 shed into Swedish Lapland, and so in boats down the Muonio 

 River to Muoniovara itself. 



The homeward journey began on the 8th of September, 

 and the party reached Hull early in October, by way of 

 Haparanda, Stockholm, and Gothenburg. 



In the spring of 1856 John Wolley induced Simpson 

 to join him in an expedition to the Isle of Gland, in the 

 Baltic, in quest of the Little Gull, supposed to breed there, 



