b PROCEEDINGS OF THE 



to Murray, the printer, as in the Glasgow edition, indicating 

 the transatlantic origin of the plates. 



Turnbull left an interesting collection of birds which I remem- 

 ber examining many years ago at the home of the late Professor 

 E. D. Cope, who I believe obtained the specimens from Ber- 

 nard Hoopes, a local collector. This collection is now in the 

 possession of the Academy of Natural Sciences. 



There is one point of interest reflected in the difference as to 

 the author's name in the title-page of the East Lothian and East 

 Pennsylvania books. In the latter the author's name is followed 

 by the letters " LL. D.", the University of Pennsylvania having 

 conferred this degree upon him in August 1868, the year be- 

 tween the appearance of the two works. 



As to the personal history of William Turnbull, outside of 

 his work as an ornithologist, I have little to record. In the 

 year 1866, he made a short visit to Scotland, where Gray be- 

 came personally acquainted with him, and remarks that he was 

 the most enthusiastic lover of birds he had ever met. He pos- 

 sed a very valuable liberary, especially complete in works on 

 ornithology. Turnbull was elected a member of the Academy 

 of Natural Sciences on July 28, 1857 and served as a member 

 of the committee on ornithology for 1869-1870. From an 

 obituary notice in an American newspaper quoted by Gray, 

 he appears to have had a wife and child or children. He 

 died in Philadelphia on the 5th of July, 1871, aged forty-one 

 years, and his funeral took place on the 8th inst. from the resi- 

 dence of a sister on Twenty-first Street below Spruce, but his 

 burial place is unknown to me. It is but another illustration 

 of the vanishing of men out of the world of the living, and the 

 difficulty of finding even a trace of them in the span of a gen- 

 eration. The obituary notice above referred to, which I have 

 failed to find, but which Gray quotes in his memorial, without 

 exact reference to its source, concludes thus, ' ' Dr. Turnbull 

 was a warm-hearted friend, a genial companion, a highly culti- 

 vated gentleman, a devoted father and husband, and a sympa- 

 thizing, honest man. His death at so early an age, will in 

 many places, create a void not likely very soon to be filled. ' ' 



