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interrupted by mucli other work, notably by the labour o£ 

 editing Vols. I. and II. of YarrelFs ' British Birds/ by the 

 publication^ at long intervals, in four parts of a catalogue of 

 the wonderful collections of birds' eggs formed by John 

 Wolley (' Ootheca Wolleyana^), which came to him on 

 Wolley^s death, and to which during a long course of years 

 he made many important additions. This notable work, 

 illustrated with coloured plates of eggs, was fortunately com- 

 pleted only a few months before his death, and the collection 

 was then })resented by him to the University Museum of 

 Zoology. 



Of greater value to ornithologists not specially devoted to 

 the study of birds' ©SS^' ^* ^^^^ wonderful ' Dictionary of 

 Birds,' which, with the co-operation of Professor Gadow, also 

 appeared in four parts (to be bound eventually in one thick 

 octavo volume), a unique work of its kind, crammed full of 

 useful and accurate information. fSide by side with the pre- 

 paration and delivery of his lectures proceeded the publication 

 of a ' Manual of Zoology,' a second edition of which was 

 issued in 1894. In addition to these works and amongst the 

 most notable eflforts of his busy pen may be mentioned his 

 paper in the ' Transactions ' of the Royal Society on " The 

 Extinct Birds of the Mascarene Islands," " The Zoology of 

 Ancient Europe," " The Birds of Spitzbergen " (' Ibis,' 1865), 

 "The Birds of Greenland" (' Arctic Manual,' 1875), "A List 

 of the Birds of Jamaica" ('Handbook of Jamaica,' 1881). 

 Besides these we have such memorable papers in the ' Ibis ' 

 as those giving particulars of Wolley's discovery of the 

 breeding of the Waxwing and the Crane, and his own account 

 of the extraordinary visitation of Pallas's Sandgrouse to the 

 British Islands in 1863, with the subsequent history of its 

 breeding among the sandhills of Moray, which enabled him 

 to figure for the first time (' Ibis,' 1890, pi. vii.) the chick of 

 this very remarkable bird. 



It may be said that, with the exception of a few letters of 

 criticism in the ' Ibis ' and ' Zoologist,' Professor Newton 

 published nothing ephemeral — nothing that was not worth 

 printing. On the contrary, all his contributions to zoological 



