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celebrated Oologist, who died in 1859, at the early age of 36. 
On Wolley’s death his collection of eggs, to the formation 
of which he had devoted the best part of his life, was pre- 
sented by his father (the Rev. J. F. Wolley) to Prof. Newton, 
“ together with all the books and papers thereto pertaining.” 
As the result has fully shown, no better disposition could 
have been made of them, and it was, in fact, in compliance 
with Wolley’s last wishes that this course was adopted. 
Prof. Newton, after consulting his friends as to the best 
use that he could make of this valuable property, came to the 
wise conclusion that a systematic catalogue of the contents 
of Wolley’s Egg-cabinets, accompanied by notes from the 
collector’s “ Egg-book ” and memoranda from his journals, 
would be the best way of utilizing the bequest for the benefit 
of Science. In April 1864, accordingly, he published the first 
half of the first volume of the present work. His course of 
action is described in the Preface as follows :—‘“‘ In preparing 
this work for the press, the plan I have adopted has beea to 
bring together systematically all the notes relating to the 
same species, and to arrange them for the most part in the 
order of the time at which they were written. I have not 
scrupled to add an account of such specimens as I have 
lately obtained, and of those which were included in the 
joint collections formed by my brother Edward and myself, 
prior to its incorporation with the contents of Mr. Wolley’s 
cabinets. In doing this, I believe I have only acted as my 
late friend would have wished ; for I am sure that, in leaving 
his collection to me, he expected that I should continue to 
make it as perfect as I could. These interpolations, how- 
ever, are in all cases typographically distinguished from 
Mr. Wolley’s text; so that there is no fear of my words 
being mistaken for his.” 
The first part of the ‘Ootheca Wolleyana’ relates to the 
eggs of the Accipitres and Striges of which specimens are 
in the Collection. It contains 180 pages and is illustrated 
by 18 plates. Of these, 9 coloured plates represent eggs 
and 8 nesting-places and nests, while one (Plate C) is a 
beautiful figure of the Gyrfalcon (Falco gyrfalco) drawn by 
