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but, as he told the present writer a few years ago, sufficient 

 copies had not been sold to pay for the paper on which it 

 was printed. It was originally published in the form 

 of a series of papers in "Science Gossip." In 1890 he 

 completed the third volume of Stevenson's " Birds of 

 Norfolk," effecting the " splice " on to another man's 

 work in a manner which gained general approval. In 

 1902 he published " Letters and Notes on the Natural 

 History of Norfolk," from the MSS. of Sir Thomas 

 Browne (1605-1682). The guide to the Zoological 

 collection in the Norwich Castle Museum (with which he 

 was so intimately connected) is a much appreciated piece 

 of work by him. 



In addition to these separate publications, he was the 

 author of no less than one hundred and twenty communi- 

 cations to the " Zoologist " between 1869, when he sent 

 a note on nests of Dabchick, and 1909, when he contributed 

 the last of his series of twenty-eight annual reports on 

 the Arctic Whale Fishery ; a series begun in 1882 in 

 the pages of the Proceedings of the Natural History 

 Society of Glasgow, on the previous season's voyage, and 

 continued since in the " Zoologist " (the reports for 

 two seasons appearing in the volume for 1884). This 

 series forms probably the most lastingly valuable result 

 of his industry. 



His long tale of papers in the " Transactions of the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society," already 

 referred to, ends in the volume for 1908, with a paper 

 "In Memoriam " of his two friends Alfred Newton and 

 Howard Saunders, and now it is the turn of someone else 

 to attempt the same pious office towards himself. He was 

 also an occasional contributor to the natural history 

 columns of the " Field," and there are a few papers by 

 him scattered through various other periodicals. Of 

 these last, as they are almost hopeless to find without a 



* " Mr. Southwell makes unnecessary apologies in his preface for 

 undertaking the task, which he seems to have performed in a very 

 satisfactory manner." " Ibis," 1891, p. 288. 



