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Hospital and Rector of Greatham, where he remained until 

 1873, when he was appointed Canon of Durham, and resided 

 in that city until his decease on the 8th of March last. We 

 will now turn to his ornithological and other scientific work 

 and publications. 



From his early youth devoted to Natural History, 

 Tristram, like many of us, commenced his writings on 

 this engrossing subject in the ' Zoologist/ the first being 

 S( On the Occurrence of the Little Auk in Durham/' 

 published in 1853 (Zool. p. 3753). Other short notes in the 

 same periodical followed in 1854, 1856, 1859, and 1861. 

 His first visit to Algeria was made in the winter of 1855-6, 

 and in the following winter, having acquired the favour of 

 Marshal Randon, the French Governor-General, he was 

 enabled to push his excursions across the Atlas far into the 

 interior of the Sahara, where, as he tells us, he found 

 an " atmosphere bright, dry, and invigorating/' which 

 exactly suited his case. It was, in fact, to the two winters 

 passed in Algeria that he always attributed his recovery from 

 the malady which had threatened him. 



The results of these expeditions were the excellent series 

 of papers on the ornithology of Northern Africa published 

 in this Journal in 1859, I860, and 1861, and the very 

 attractive volume on his journeyingsin the " Great Sahara," 

 issued in 1860, which, in our opinion, may fairly claim a place 

 of the very highest rank among the narratives of travels of 

 Naturalists. 



Another part of the world to which Tristram devoted 

 special attention was Palestine. It was in the early part of 

 1858 that he first landed there, during a yachting visit 

 to the Mediterranean. His ornithological notes written 

 on this occasion were published in the first volume of 'The 

 Ibis,' to which he was always a constant contributor. 

 Several other winter-visits to Palestine followed, and in 

 1863 he stayed on in the Holy Land until the following 

 summer. This visit was the chief origin of his instructive 

 and charming volume on f The Land of Israel/ published by 

 the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1865. 



