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on the Westmann Islands. In 1879 he thought there might 

 be 20,000 Gannets on Eldey, but m 1904, wishmg to be 

 cautious, he told Mr. Nielsen that 6,000 or 8,000 was perhaps 

 enough.* However, there must be more than that, for another 

 authority, Mr. G. J. Johnss,t in answer to an inquiry for 

 information on the subject, tells me that the annual take 

 of Gannets on Eldey Island at the present time (1908) is 



about 4,100, and it may even have been more formerly. 

 No English naturalist has landed on Eldey that I am 

 aware of. Professor Newton passed near it in 1858, after 

 spending nearly two months with Wolley, waiting for a 

 favourable opportunity to land, and he then did the 



* He seems to have been very uncertain about it, see " Ooth. WoU.," 

 II., p. 458. 



t Acting British Consul for the Westmann Islands, 1909. 



