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CHAPTER V 



THE IBIS 



PAGE 



Origin of B.O.U.— Founders— Journal— Motto— Editorship of Ibis— 

 Canon Tristram — Wolley's collections — " Ootheca Wolleyana " 

 — IMemoir of John Wolley 61 



CHAPTER VI 



VISIT TO SPITZBERGEN 



Shooting in Denmark— Visit to Germany — Decides not to take 

 holy orders — Prince Dhuleep Singh and Elveden — Visit to 

 Spitzbergen — Voyage from Leith — Birds in Ice Sound — Snow 

 Buntings — Eiders — Reindeer — Nordenskjold — Seals — Upset 

 from boat — Fogs and calms— Bear Island and Hammerfest . 73 



CHAPTER VII 



DR. Shipley's reminiscences 



{Written by the Master of ChHsVs) 



Cambridge in the 'forties — Eailway station — Magdalene in 1849 

 — Professor Adami — Francis Balfour — Adam Sedgwick — 

 William Bateson — Newton's lectures — Hospitality— Character 93 



CHAPTER VIII 



EARLY DAYS OF DARWINISM 



Early days of Darwinism — Newton's acceptance of theory — British 

 Association at Oxford in 1860 — Huxley and the Bishop of 

 Oxford— Dr. Temple — Tristram's defection — Manchester meet- 

 ing — Letter from Darwin — Zoological Record — Mendelism — 

 Programme for Section D— Sclater and Louis Napoleon— Red 

 Lions— Professorship of Zoology— Charles Kingsley . . .110 



CHAPTER IX 



PROTECTION OF BIRDS 



Zoological aspect of Game Laws — Destruction of Sea-fowl — Close- 

 time Committee — Bird Protection Bills and Acts — Letters to 

 Lord Walsingham — Skuas — Protection of eggs— Protection of 

 areas— Society for the Protection of Birds -Egg-collecting . 136 



