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referred. The list of Newton's publications, given as an 

 appendix (pp. 316-324), is by no means complete, and this 

 incompleteness is not excused by the footnote (p. 324). 

 Certain " reviews " by Newton have been included in the list 

 and it is incomprehensible, from a bibliographer's point of 

 view, why Yarrell's History of British Birds, Vols. I. and II., 

 The Dictionary of Birds and Ootheca Wolleyana should not 

 have been tabulated in their proper place ; using the date of 

 the publication of the first volume, or part, as the indication 

 for their insertion in the chronological sequence adopted in 

 the list. It is, moreover, provoking to find several items 

 included with no indication as to where they were published 

 and in some cases the references given are not correct : e.g. 

 Newton's review of A. H. Evans's Turner on Birds appeared 

 in the Ihis of 1904, not 1903 ; his paper on " The edible frog 

 in Norfolk " will be found in the Zoologist (1877, p. 61), and 

 a glance at this periodical will show that the Professor con- 

 tributed far more notes to its pages than have been enumerated. 

 As a whole the book is very free from misprints and errors, 

 which is only the more fitting when it is remembered that 

 Newton's guiding rule was " verify your references," but a 

 careless blunder is to be found on p. vi. where the late John 

 Alexander Harvie-Brown [John Always Hunting Birds) is 

 called Mr. James E. Harvie-Brown. 



I have already expressed my regret that the book could not 

 have been made longer, and it is perhaps a pity that Mr. 

 Wollaston could not have hastened its publication ; it is, 

 however, a matter of congratulation that, at long last, the 

 book should have been completed by him. There can be no 

 doubt that Newton's " Life " was a very difficult one to which 

 to render full justice, and I have suggested that the reader is 

 left too much to discover what a truly remarkable man he 

 was ; it may therefore be permissible to say that he has 

 been defined as " a man, who even in his age, when his 

 peculiarities were more marked, sincerely desired truth, 

 practised kindness, feared no opponent nor adversary, and 

 lived a full and gallant life to the very end, enjoying existence 

 and making the most of it in his own vigorous fashion, and 

 not pretending or wishing to enjoy it in anyone else's way." 

 The above, I think, may be taken as a well considered estimate 

 of the character of the Professor, who has been summed up 

 by one of his friends, as : " The only man I have ever known 

 who had all the characteristics of John Bull " : could any 

 true Englishman desire a more honourable epitaph ? 



Hugh S. Gladstone. 



