Vili. 
In Mr. Booth’s case of Manx Shearwaters (No. 230) 
is one bird much darker, and with longer beak, than its 
fellows. In his “Rough Notes” Mr. Booth drew attention 
to its peculiarity, and it has recently been identified (by 
the late Mr. Howard Saunders) as a very rare British visitor, 
the Levantine Shearwater, a description of which, followed 
by a description of the cases added since the 3rd edition of 
the Illustrated Catalogue was issued in rgor, and then by a 
short note on uncased specimens acquired since the same 
date, constitutes the appended Catalogue.$ 
The following account of the late Mr. William Borrer, 
the historian of the ‘‘ Birds of Sussex,” whose collection 
has added so many rarities to this Museum, will be 
welcome here. 
William Borrer, was born at Barrow Hill, Henfield, 
January 18, 1814. He inherited a love of Natural History 
from his father (the noted botanist and friend of Sir 
Joseph Banks), Sir William Hooker, and other pioneers 
in systematic Natural History to whom Barrow Hill was so 
hospitable a centre. 
He first went to Mr. Baton’s School at Eastergate, 
near Chichester, then to Dr. Rusden’s at Leith Hill, Surrey. 
After reading for a time with the Rev. William Guille, the 
Vicar of Egham, he went up to Cambridge in 1835 where he 
entered Peterhouse as a Fellow Commicner, taking his B.A. 
degree in 1839 and his M.A, a few years later. In 1840 he 
married Margaret, elder daughter of John Hamlyn Borrer, 
of North House and the Union Bank, Brighton, and in 1842 
he settled at Brookhill, the house at Cowfold, Sussex, then 
newly built, where from that time he resided and kept his 
collections, though for several years prior to 1892 he regularly 
spent the winters in Brighton at North House. 
He began his Natural History collections as a boy, 
and pursued them keenly both at Cambridge, and later in 
Sussex. He had very wide interests in all branches of 
Natural History but his most complete collections were 
those of British birds and their eggs, British mammals and 
British land and fresh water shells. Up to the last, he was 
adding to his collection of birds eggs. till it included 
specimens of those of all but four of the species which were 
then known to have visited Britain. 
In his Museum Room at Brookhill he welcomed all 
who were fond of our British Zoology, entertaining them 
with stories of his early days at Cambridge, when he shot 
snipe before breakfast on Coe fen, just behind Peterhouse, 
went after wildfowl to the Ouse (by Over, where he shot 
two wild swans, right and left, with snipe shot, and had 
