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Newton was elected to the Drury travelling fellowship, for 
the sons of Norfolk gentlemen, at Magdalene in 1853, shortly 
after taking his B.A. degree, and went abroad in pursuit of 
the knowledge which most interested him for several years. 
To anticipate : some time after the travelling fellowship had 
expired, viz. in 1877, his College elected him toa Foundation 
Fellowship, aud he continued to reside in the Old Lodge at 
Magdalene, which had been his headquarters for some years 
previously. 
In the course of his many journeys Newton’s predilections 
seemed to favour the Arctic. Thus we find him the com- 
panion of John Wolley in Lapland during the summer of 
1855. Again, in 1858 he accompanied his friend to the 
last home of the Great Auk, or “ Garetowl”’ as he loved to 
eall it, in Iceland, and spent the early part of a rather 
miserable summer in that island. The last of his northern 
excursions took place in 1864, when he accompanied Sir E. 
Birkbeck in his yacht to Spitsbergen. Meanwhile he did 
not neglect more southern climes, since we find him in the 
West Indies in 1857, whence he proceeded to the U.S. of 
Ameuica, partly for the purpose of conferring with the 
naturalists of Philadelphia and Washington. Again, in 
1862 we find him crossing the Atlantic, but he must have 
returned to England early in the following year, since the 
paper in ‘The Ibis’ relating his experiences at Madeira is 
dated “ Elveden, Feb. 28th, 1863.” Moreover, this was the 
last time that Newton dated from the paternal mansion, 
which was shortiy to be occupied by the Maharajah Dhuleep 
Singh. Jt must not be supposed that Newton never travelled 
in subsequent years, but it is probable that the period of 
his great travels was over at the time that he was elected to 
the newly constituted Chair of Zoology and Comparative 
Anatomy at Cambridge in March 1866. This event would 
act as a stay upon him, and may naturally be regarded as 
the turning-point in his career. 
We must now, as in private duty bound, consider Alfred 
Newton in his relations to the B.O.U. ‘There may have 
been some mistake lately made as to the precise share that 
