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In 1821 bevisited the Faroe Islands, and resided there for sometime, 

 making nnmerons observations on their vegetation and temperature. 

 Seventeen ont of the twenty-two islands were inhabited at that date. 

 rSee his published acconnt in ' Jameson's Edmbnrgh New Philo- 

 sophic^ iournal,' for 1835, vol. xviii., printed m 4to for private 



■^"Betteen'lSsf Ind 1846 be travelled much in the south of 

 Euro™ and made observations on the Tertiary Geology of the 

 Ttalian'Peninsula, and upon the tides in the Mediterranean. 



He succeeded to the title on the 23rd May, 1846, together with 

 the fine anded estates belonging to his family in Northumber and, 

 Somersetshire, Devonshire, and Cornwall; and during the thirty-three 



1" which he held the title and property, he made very ez- 

 tenslfe improvements, thus permanently increasing the value of lis 

 inherita™e. Hemade the farmhouses and cottages on his estates 

 mode of what such dwellings should be. He also did much towards 

 Cprovingthe breed of shorthorn cattle, of which Sir Walter possessed 



''"h^ was not :i an accomplished botanist and geologist, but he 

 was alio an excellent authority on antiquarian and topographical 

 Tnljects and liberally supported all projects for the increase and 



'^ OfThTthrel SS volumes of ' Trevelyan Papers ' published 

 bv the Camden Society, the last was edited by Sir Walter in con- 

 junction ^th his cousin Sir Charles Trevelyan, Bart, (who succeeds 



^ EotS^trilTdt maintained an extensive correspondence with 

 a wide circle of literary and scientific men, both at home and abroad, 

 and was afardent collector of both scientific books and specimens. 



Si^Walter Trevelyan's Museum at Wallington contained a good 

 series of British and Italian fossils, valuable collections of minerals 

 and recent shells, a good series of Ethnological specimens together 

 w^ih a general Natu^ral-History collection of objects, most of which 

 he had himself obtained during his travels. ,. , r. i tv„ 



To the British Museum, the Museum of Practical Geology, the 

 South-Kensington Museum, the Museums of Oxford, Kew, Edinburgh, 

 Newca^ r-Tpon-Tyne, the Boyal Geographical Society, the Society 

 of Intiquaries, London and Scotiand, and many other societies and 

 institutions Sir Walter Trevelyan was a munificent benefactor 



He tTok the most lively interest in the improTcment and ad- 

 vancement of the New Museum of the University of Oxford, towards 

 the cost of which he also liberally contributed. ^ „„ . oto • 



He died at Wallington, Northumberland, on March 23, 1879, in 

 his eighty-second year. 



John Waterhoubd, E.R.S., F.E.A.S., F.G.S &e^, was born at 

 HaUfax Yorkshire, on the 3rd of August, 1806. His father, John 

 Wa erhiuse, of Well Head, was the representative of a family which 

 Ir 400 years had been intimately connected with the prosperity ot 

 the town and neighbourhood. 



