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before going to Cambridge he made a tour to Constantinople, 

 the Black Sea and Greece, during which, deliberately emulating 

 Leander, he swam the Hellespont to the Asiatic side. 



It was in October, 1853, that he went to Cambridge, where, 

 already interested in natural history, he soon became acquainted 

 with Osbert Salvin and the brothers Newton, and together 

 they made many ornithological and lepidopterological expedi- 

 tions in the neighborhood. 



In August, 1861, he and Salvin went to Jamaica, BeUze and 

 Guatemala, collecting birds, insects, plants and fishes. A trip 

 to the Azores, in 1864, yielded a book (The Azores, 1870) on 

 the natural history results of the expedition. In 1872 he vis- 

 ited the Canaries and Madeira to compare their faunas more 

 critically with that of the Azores. 



In 1878, he and Salvin matured their plans for publishing 

 some connected record of their natural history experiences in 

 Central America, the now well known Biologia Centrali- Ameri- 

 cana, the first part of which appeared in September, 1879, and 

 the last, the Introductory Volume, in 191 5. In the summer 

 of 1879 they, in conjunction with H. J. Elwes and W. A. 

 Forbes, collected Alpine butterflies in the Dauphine Alps. In 

 1886, he and Elwes collected plants, birds and butterflies in 

 many parts of India and in Ceylon.. 



In 1887, he was recommended by his doctor to spend the 

 winter in a warmer climate and so went by way of New York 

 to Central and Southern Mexico, collecting material for the 

 great work. He was accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. H. H. 

 Smith, ''who proved marvellously good collectors in various 

 branches of entomology." 



He was not only a collector himself, but also purchased 

 many insects brought together by others, such as Lidderdale's 

 North Indian, Bates' Amazonian and H. Druce's butterflies ; 

 Salle's, Boucard's, Forrer's and Hoge's Mexican and Central 

 American Coleoptera, F. Bates' Heteromera, part of J. S. 

 Baly's Phytophaga, Janson's Elateridae, and miscellaneous col- 

 lections by Becker, Biolley, Blancaneaux, Conradt. Gaumer, 

 Janson, Lankester, Morrison, Rhoads, Staudinger, Under- 

 wood, Van Patten, Wittkugel and others. Among those whom 



