286 Report of McH Ing.^ /or 1 89 1 . By Dr J . H ardy . 



by Mr Tomlinson. The collections of Chiua and curiosities, 

 the tapestry, the sculptures, and other decorations can only be 

 alluded to. Among the rarities in the house used to be a 

 " Great Auk's egg, and an authentic egg of the Great Bustard, 

 taken in England, and probably one of the last which will ever 

 be taken in a wild state."*' 



The study of the topography, natural history, and antiquities 

 of Northumberland, owes much to the members of the Trevelyan 

 family, not only for their encouragement, but for their active 

 participation in the pursuit thereof. Sir John Trevelyan (born 

 6th February 1735, died 18th April 1828) patronised Bewick, 

 and communicated to him rare zoological specimens, accompanied 

 with useful observations. His grandson. Sir Walter Calverly 

 Trevelyan, (born 31st March 1797, died 22iid March 1879), an 

 accurate and assiduous naturalist and geologist, furnished 

 valuable aid to the Kev. John Hodgson in his History of 

 Northumberland, and contributed much to the knowledge of the 

 distribution of native plants, not only in the vicinity of 

 Wallington, but of Northumberland and Durham generally, as 

 well as elsewhere, along with his accomplished sister. Miss 

 Emma Trevelyan, afterwards Mrs Dr Power; and the researches 

 of Dr Power himself, have brought to light among the 

 Coleoptera (chiefly) of the Wansbeck district, many additions 

 to the entomological Fauna, from a secluded tract of couTitry 

 that no one else previously had the opportunity of investigating. 



In front of the house the clean grassy lawn stretclies to the 

 river, but the view i.s confined to the woodlands round Deanham 

 beyond the Wansbeck, and the cultivated slopes to the east- 

 ward. The abrupt rugged mass of Shaftoe Crag rearing its top 

 behind the swelling ground on the south, is visible at least from 

 the windows. Round the mansion there is only a limited 

 decoration, in plots, of flowering shrubs ; Azaleas, Berberis 

 Darwinii, Rhodendrons, among others. In or round the ponds, 

 most of them probably planted, grew the Great Eeed Mace, 

 {Ti/pha latifoUa), the Common Yellow Iris {Iris pseud-acorus), 

 Bull-rush, White Water Lilies, the small Yellow Water Lily, 

 {Nuphar minima) transferred from Chartner's Lake (a discovery 

 of Sir John Trevelyan), Polygonum aniphihium, Utricularia 

 vulgaris, Villarsia nymphceoides, Stratiotes aloides. from the south 



*C. M. Adamson, Nat. Hist. Trans, of Northd. aud Durham, vn., p. 170. 



