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INDEX 



Morris, Francis Orpen, his birth and 

 parentage, i ; early life, 7 ; love for 

 natural history, 10 ; entered a pupil 

 at Bromsgrove School, n ; happy 

 life there, 12 ; begins his collections 

 of birds and insects, 14 ; proceeds 

 to Worcester College, Oxford, 15 ; 

 subjects taken up by him for his 

 "Great Go," 19 ; effects of his four 

 years' residence in Oxford, 20 ; or- 

 dained deacon, 22 ; married to Miss 

 Anne Sanders, 22 ; first publication) 

 23 ; presented to the living of Naf- 

 ferton, 25 ; changes effected by him 

 in that parish, 27 ; death of his 

 eldest child, 31 ; varied character 

 of his literary work at this time, 31 ; 

 on "National Adult Education," 

 34 ; farewell address to the inhabi- 

 tants of Nafferton, 37 ; accepts the 

 Rectorship of Nunburnholme, 39 ; 

 disposition of his study, 48 ; takes 

 steps to remedy the evils of the 

 system of hiring farm-servants, 56 ; 

 life at Nunburnholme, 58 ; extra- 

 ordinary walking powers, 61 ; com- 

 pletes his " History of British 

 Birds," 65; origin of his "Anec- 

 dotes in Natural History," 66; 

 success of the " History," 71 ; 

 object of the work, 71 ; his interest 

 in it, 76 ; descriptions of bird- 

 music, 78; his personal character 

 revealed in the "History," 82; 

 crusade against bird murder, 84 ; 

 his system of nomenclature, 85, 

 133; second edition of his "His- 

 tory," 88 ; chief features of the 

 third edition, 88 ; produces his 

 "Natural History of the Nests and 

 Eggs of British Birds," 88 ; method 

 in literary work, 89 ; pleasure in 

 writing the " History," 91 ; delight 

 in entomology, 94; popularity of 

 his " History of British Butterflies," 

 96 ; his personality intensely re- 

 vealed in this work, 97 ; admirable 

 arrangement of his natural history 



collections, 98 ; happy character of 

 his descriptive powers, 100 ; his 

 " History of British Moths," 103; 

 preference for homely language in 

 his works, 103 ; his conception of 

 life, 113 ; stern sense of duty, 115 ; 

 Churchmanship, 118 ; manner of 

 preaching, 119 ; dislike to party 

 signs in things ecclesiastical, 122 ; 

 love of music, 123 ; literary tastes, 

 125 ; on Dickens, 125 ; sense of 

 humour, 126 ; sanguine tempera- 

 ment, 128 ; strong personality, 128 ; 

 happy conversational and narrative 

 powers, 129 ; aptness in quotation, 

 131 ; importance attached to points 

 of minutiae, 133 ; campaign against 

 bird destruction, 135 ; petitions the 

 House of Commons in favour of a 

 gun-tax, 135 ; agitates in favour 

 of the protection of sea-birds, 140 ; 

 and of British birds generally, 148 ; 

 on the future existence of the animal 

 creation, 156 ; his interest in hymn- 

 ology, 158 ; efforts to provide whole- 

 some literature for the masses, 161 ; 

 on Sunday observance, 162 ; pro- 

 duces his "County Seats of the 

 Noblemen and Gentlemen of Great 

 Britain and Ireland," 164; minor 

 works, 168 ; on constant com- 

 munion, 169 ; on the modern 

 developments of political Dissent, 

 170 ; his humanity, 170 ; friendships, 

 172 ; extensive correspondence, 181 

 et seq. ; its varied character, 206 ; 

 vehemence in paper warfare, 209 ; 

 on vivisection, 210; bad hand- 

 writing, 211 ; his campaign against 

 Darwinism, 213, 293 ; admits the ex- 

 istence of connecting-links through- 

 out animated nature, 216 ; on natural 

 selection, 220; on Darwin's works, 

 221 ; crusade against vivisection, 

 223, 285, 288 ; a staunch Tory, 232 ; 

 peculiar aversion to the opinions of 

 John Bright, 233 ; in favour of small 

 holdings, 234 ; his interest in the 



