260 Petty: Limnea peregra in Upland Tarns in Furness. 
subscribing. Visits to Edinburgh and Glasgow were followed — 
by hospitalities at the hands of Selby at Twizell and of Captain _ 
Mitford at Mitford Castle. Then came his visit to Newcastle, 
and his meeting with the famous old woodcutter, Bewick, then _ 
in his 74th year, and with eye undimmed able to cut as well — 
as at 20. This graphic picture of the old engraver in his cotton — 
nightcap is perhaps as interesting as anything in the book, at 
all events to us who are of the north country. Visits to York 
and to Leeds, where he was well received by John Atkinson and 
by John Backhouse, who is described as ‘a good ornithologist— 
not a closet naturalist, but a real true-blue, who goes out at 
night and watches Owls and Night-jars and Water-fow! to some 
purpose, and who knows more about these things than any other 
man I have met in Europe.’ The number of towns in Great Britain 
visited by Audubon seems to have been very small. Liverpool, 
Manchester, Newcastle, York, Leeds, Edinburgh, Glasgow, 
London, are all. But one flying visit he made was inspired by 
conjugal affection, and on the 11th and 12th of October 1826 he 
visited Bakewell, the birthplace of the lady (Bakewell by name 
also) who, in becoming his wife, overcame a strong prejudice he 
originally entertained against everything English. : 
e can say but little. more. It is not our province to — 
estimate his influence on American ornithology, though the fact4 
that Dr. Elliott Coues (whose notes add to the scientific value 
of the American portion of the book) in sketching out six _ 
epochs of American ornithology, characterised the period 1824- 
1853 as the epoch of Audubon, amply demonstrates that it was _ 
great; and it will suffice to commend these volumes to the — 
perusal of our readers. 
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i in Furness.—Outsid e Ulverston 
on the b N. w es Rott Hollow ge (vulgo North Hollow), at ee elevation 
of some feet ab It is divided by a wall-like structure into two” 
tarns of which the higher is is chs larger and shallower. Until this dry season 
I — found few, if any, shells about poate argin, but ona visit on ing August 
Limnea peregra Mill. was sg tered all over the (at present) wide, SOppY; 
arsine avetek between the high-water line and the new and “restricted i 
rea of the upper tarn, It pinay in quantity, all the shells empty and in- i 
good condition. ee 
n L. E. Adams’ work bs British —— a edition, 1896, the e specie cS 
is given as recorded in V.C. 69—Westmorland with N. Lanes. (not Furnessi 
Watson never wrote iat, su 94 knew ‘ora Alth: know 
n species n ee ; ess Pp sli 
pe area of North Lanes. — hee it ha from Coniston or the neigh- 
_ bourhood o: larger tari it unless properly located the questi 
Oe ains. Hence the. reason ~ this note.—-S. la ‘Pr STTY, pied rs 
‘a st Avg 1898. Waka 
