104 THALASSIDROMA BULLOCKII. 



London (vide article, Ibis, Jan. 1873, 3rd ser. vol. iii. p. 14, by A. von 

 Pelzeln), that this collection of objects was a vast improvement upon 

 Tradescant's ; the appearance of it, however, in the print which fell 

 into my hands some time back, is not imposing. 



This collection, after passing into the possession of Mr. T. Parkinson, 

 was sold in 1806. 



A life of WilUam Bullock, F.L.S., appears in ' Men I have known/ by 

 William Jerdon (London, 1866 : Routledge). From this we find that he 

 was first " Head and Director of the Museum at Liverpool," of which " he 

 published a catalogue in 1808." 



In 1812 this collection had been transferred to London, to 22 Piccadilly, 



It was not till the 27th of March, in the tenth year of the Fourth George, 

 that the Charter of the Zoological Society was granted by that King and 

 Defender of the Faith to five persons (Sabine, Vigors, Wall, and Lords 

 Auckland and Lansdowne), with several others of ''his loving subjects." 

 Previously zoologists looked to Exeter Change (built 1670) and the Tower, 

 " Henry III. being the first king who caged wild beasts there" (Mark Lemon, 

 'Streets of London/ p. 43). 



Thus the £55,000 expended by William Bullock on the Egyptian Hall 

 and its contents, was not laid out without a corresponding benefit to the nation. 



Besides his numerous Catalogues, in 1824 Mr. Bullock published his 

 ' Six Months' Residence and Travels in Mexico ' (8vo, plates and maps). 



I do not, however, propose to write his life, or even his Scotch tour. 

 In the spring of 1819 the sale of his collections took place ; and in March 1826 

 he started with his family and left Europe, after which I lose sight of him. 



In the 15th edition of his 'Companion to the London Museum and 

 Pantherion' (published 1813), the matter and the illustrations are by no 

 means unworthy of Mr. Bullock, " Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, 

 of the Wernerian Society of Natural History of Edinburgh, and Honorary 

 Member of the Dubhn Society." 



