BRITISH ZOOLOGISTS, 187 



scientific zoologist, but through that most delightful of 

 books, the * Wanderings in South America.' 



The two most essentially British ornithologists of this 

 period were William Yarrell and William Macgillivray. 

 The former is the author of what may be regarded as 

 the standard work on the birds of our country namely, 

 the * Natural History of British Birds ' (1839-43). Yarrell 

 was also the author of the equally well-known ' Natural 

 History of British Fishes,' the first edition of which was 

 published in 1836. Macgillivray is perhaps best known 

 as the author of the ' History of British Land and Water 

 Birds,' now a scarce and expensive work, which was 

 published in 1837, in five octavo volumes. He published 

 various other treatises, of which the two best known are 

 ' The Natural History of Deeside and Braemar/ published 

 posthumously in 1855, and his 'Lives of Eminent Zoolo- 

 gists' (1834), which formed one of the volumes of the 

 ' Edinburgh Cabinet Library.' Macgillivray occupied the 

 chair of natural history in Marischal College, Aber- 

 deen, from 1841 to 1853, and as an ornithologist has not 

 perhaps received generally full justice. 



Coming next to the Invertebrates, there are only three 

 groups which may be noticed, namely the Molluscs, the 

 Insects, and the Zoophytes; and even these can only be 

 glanced at in the most cursory fashion. In the depart- 

 ment of the Mollusca, we find many well-known authors 

 such as Turton, Wood, Burrows, Broderip, &c. ; but none 

 of these call for special remark. The two names which 

 are most familiar to conchologists and naturalists generally 

 in connection with this period are those of Sowerby and 

 Woodward though the latter more properly belongs to a 



