52 Collections of the University of Cambridge. 



the apparent exceptions which seem to prevent safe generali- 

 zations. Some of the reasons why, in his later years, he devoted so 

 much painstaking labour to the ' Ootheca were rather sentimental : 

 the memory of his friend Wolley, and the delight it gave him 

 to go through his notes, taken when travelling in Lapland, Ice- 

 land, and Spitsbergen, more especially Lapland, and thus to live 

 again through old times when he studied Nature in the held, 

 because Newton was essentially, at heart, a Field Naturalist, and 

 a very good one indeed. 

 III. The Wilmot-RusseU Collection, made by J. P. Wilmot, left to and 

 augmented by his friend Sir S. L. Russell, whose widow left it 

 to thr University. It is properly arranged and catalogued, and 

 contains about 2005 egg8 of 325 European species. 

 IV. The T. E. Buckley Cn//<-<-ti>,/, ; containing about 1780 eggs of 

 European species, properly arranged and catalogued. 



D. — The Newton Library. 



There are some 57 Journals and Periodicals, recent and ancient, 

 in the Newton Library, comprising just 1001 volumes. 



Through the generosity of their owner a sum of money was left 

 to keep up at least the more important Journals (besides such as 

 are taken in by the Department of Zoology) and to purchase special 

 ornithological works which may appear, 

 Besides these Periodicals there are 

 I'.'") folio volumes. 

 897 quarto. 

 3138 octavo. 

 169 of small size. 

 These 4400 volumes may be sorted roughly into 

 1800 strictly ornithological. 

 I ill' volumes of voyages and travels. 

 226 dealing with North America. 

 129 „ „ Central and South America. 



167 „ „ Arctic countries. 



184 „ „ Asia. 



189 „ „ Australasia. 



Ill „ „ Africa. 



The rest, about 1100 in number, relate to Europe, or are miscel- 

 laneous — e.g. Text-books, General Philosophical works, Biographies, 

 Dictionaries, &c, &c. 



Further, there are more than 8000 " pamphlets," mostly orni- 

 thological, now in process of being sorted, or being bound up. 



Lastly, several dozen volumes of bound-up letters, received during 

 a lifelong correspondence on every imaginable subject, from the 

 reputed laying of some egg to the founding of the B. O. U. 



