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CHAPTEE V 



THE IBTS 



PAQR 



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

 Canon Tristram Wolley's collections " Ootheca Wolleyana " 

 Memoir 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 Eeindeer Nordenskj old Seals Upset 

 from boat Fogs and calms Bear Island and Hammerfest . 73 



CHAPTER VII 



DE. SHIPLEY'S REMINISCENCES 

 (Written by the Master of Christ's) 



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 



