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He saw, or called upon, Mr. Baily (Baily the sculp- 

 tor), Mr. Pickering the publisher, Mr. Ramsay, Mr. 

 Bulmer, his friend Pollard, and others. He also 

 visited the Ornithological Museum. But he com- 

 plains that he was "weary and could not attend to 

 it," and elsewhere that he was "buzzed and fati- 

 gued " a statement which accounts for the story 

 told in Chatto's "Treatise on Wood Engraving," 

 that, when Bulmer drove him round the Regent's 

 Park, he declined to alight to see the animals in 

 the Zoological Gardens. He left London on the 

 3rd September for Buxton, which he reached next 

 day. He returned to Newcastle on the 25th Sep- 

 tember. His memoranda continue to chronicle 

 his daily doings until October 16. On the 8th of 

 November he died at his house, 19, West Street, 

 Gateshead, after a few days' illness. A character- 

 istic incident of his last hours is related by 

 Mr. Robert Robinson, of Newcastle. His mind 

 wandered repeatedly to the green fields and brooks 

 of his birth-place by the Tyne ; and being asked in 

 a waking moment what had occupied his thoughts, 

 he replied with a faint smile, "that he had been 

 devising subjects for some new tail-pieces." He 

 was buried at Ovingham, beside his wife, on the 

 1 3th November. A stone on the wall of the church 

 records the dates of birth and death ; but a tablet 

 in the chancel gives fuller particulars. His 

 daughter Jane survived him until the yth April, 

 1881; his daughter Isabella until the 8th June, 

 1883.] 



