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to making a collection of Shropshire Birds, and in many 

 instances the only specimens of particular species ever 

 obtained in the County found their way into his hands. 

 In both Beckwith's and Rocke's lists we frequently 

 meet with the words " in Mr. Bodenham's collection," 

 yet now the collection no longer exists. At his death 

 all his possessions were sold and the property divided 

 amongst various relations. He was buried at Pulver- 

 batch, December i8th, 1873. 



Thomas Campbell Eyton, was born at Eyton Hall, near 

 Wellington, Salop, September 10, 1809. He took up 

 the study of natural history at an early age, and 

 numbered amongst his friends Agassiz, Asa Gray, 

 Charles Darwin, A. R. Wallace, and Professor Owen. In 

 1836 he published a " History of the Rarer British 

 Birds," with beautiful wood-cut illustrations, the work 

 of a local engraver named Marks. In 1838 appeared his 

 " Monograph of the Anatidse, or Duck Tribe." A small 

 reprint of this book appeared in 1869. The same 

 year he published in the Annals and Magazine of Natural 

 History (a periodical then just started) a highly in- 

 teresting paper, entitled " An attempt to ascertain the 

 Fauna of Shropshire and North Wales." This list 

 gives the Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, and Fishes of the 

 district, and forms the foundation on which subsequent 

 naturalists have worked. The reason that Shropshire is 

 here associated with North Wales was that the paper 

 was written by Eyton for a Society formed a few years 

 previously (1835) in which he took a strong personal 

 interest the Shropshire and North Wales Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Society. He wished the paper 

 to cover the same area as that of the sphere of the 



