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and the next, wherever there was no English chaplain. 

 The party went as far as Assouan, and visited all the 

 usual places of interest Tel el-Amarna, Luxor, Carnac, 

 Philae, etc., and at Philae my father made the acquain- 

 tance of Professor Waga of Warsaw, a naturalist with 

 whom he afterwards kept up a correspondence. They 

 started on the return journey on March 4., stopping day 

 by day for shooting or sight-seeing, and reached Cairo 

 again on the acjth. The success of their two months' 

 trip may be judged in part from an entry in the diary for 

 April ii : c Rogers sailed in the Ellora for England 

 with all the baggage Birds, Reptiles, Fish and Insects, 

 etc., etc. about 8 cwt ! ' My father and his pupil 

 remained in Cairo, engaged in shooting and entomo- 

 logy, until April zc>, when they sailed for Corfu. 



The list of birds shot or observed by the party in 

 Egypt in this year includes 176" species, of 139 of which 

 specimens were obtained. It was in connexion with 

 this list that my father first came into communication 

 (on an introduction from Mr. Bond) with Professor 

 Alfred Newton, who gave him some kind help, and 

 afterwards (through his annual visits to Bloxworth for 

 many years) became a great friend. I have not been 

 able to trace the collection, but I believe that it was 

 transferred by Mr. Bradshaw to the British Museum, 

 and the specimens are probably among those at South 

 Kensington. 



In Corfu my father collected many spiders and 



