604 Obituary. 



In 1872 Tristram was again in Palestine, and pushed his 

 travels beyond the Jordan. On this occasion he discovered 

 the ruins of the great Persian Palace at Mashita, built 

 by Chosroes about A.n. G14, which had been previously 

 almost forgotten. Upon this journey he founded his in- 

 teresting volume on 'The Land of Moab/ which was published 

 in 1873. 



Tristram's next trip to Palestine was in 1881, when he 

 travelled from Jaffa to Hebron, and thence turned north- 

 wards to Damascus. From Damascus he made a long 

 excursion across the Euphrates, and visited " Ur of the 

 Chaldees." In 1894 he was again in Palestine, and again 

 in 1897. It was on this last visit that, while riding with 

 a party of friends near Jerusalem, he had his leg broken by 

 the kick of a vicious horse. This would have finished off 

 most men of the age of seventy-two. Put such was not the 

 case with our friend Tristram. After a few weeks in the 

 hospital at Jerusalem he was pronounced to be sound again, 

 and returned to England as full of energy and spirits as 

 ever. 



In all these journey in gs, however, it must not be supposed 

 that Tristram ever lost sight of his " dear birds." They 

 Mere continually in his mind, and he was always collecting 

 specimens and writing notes about them. In the pages of this 

 Journal and elsewhere will be found upwards of seventy papers 

 of more or less importance relating to his favourite subject. 

 So far as regards Palestine, these notes will be found 

 summarized and placed in systematic order in his great 

 work on the ' Fauna and Flora of Palestine/ published by 

 the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1884. This lasting 

 monument of Canon Tristram's industry and learning is 

 still the only published work, dealing with the Natural 

 History of the Bible-lands as a whole, and is likely long to 

 remain so. A smaller and more popular work of Tristram's 

 on the Natural History of Palestine, together with an 

 account of 4ts Geography, Geology, and Meteorology, was 

 published by the " Society for Promoting Christian Know- 

 ledge " in 1807, and has gone through several editions. 



