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CHAPTER V 



THE IBIS 



FAQS 



Origin of B.O.U. — Founders— Journal — Motto— Editorship of Ibis — 

 Canon Tristram— Wolley's coUeotions— " Ootheoa Wolleyana " 

 — Memoir of John WoUey 61 



CHAPTER VI 



VISIT TO SPITZBEKGBN 



Shooting in Denmark — Visit to Germany — Decides not to take 

 holy orders — Prince Dhuleep Singh and Elveden — ^Visit to 

 Spitzbergen — Voyage from Leith — Birds in Ice Sound — Snow 

 Buntings — Eiders — Beindeer — Nordenskj51d — Seals — Upset 

 from boat — Fogs and calms — Bear Island and Hammerfest . 73 



CHAPTER VII 



DB. Shipley's reminiscences 



(Written by the Master of Ckriat'e) 



Cambridge in the 'forties — Bailway station — Magdalene in 1849 

 — Professor Adami — Francis Balfour — Adam Sedgwick — 

 William Bateson — Newton's lectures — Hospitality — Character 93 



CHAPTER VIII 



BAEIiY DAYS OP DARWINISM 



Early days of Darwinism — Newton's acceptance of theory — British 

 Association at Oxford in 1860 — Huxley and the Bishop of 

 Oxford— Dr. Temple — Tristram's defection — Manchester meet- 

 ing — Letter from Darwin — Zoological Becord — Mendelism — 

 Programme for Section D — Sclater and Louis Napoleon — Bed 

 Idons— Professorship of Zoology — Charles Kingsley . . .110 



CHAPTER IX 



PROTECTION OP BIRDS 



Zoological aspect of Game Laws — Destruction of Sea-fowl — Close- 

 time Committee — Bird Protection Bills and Acts — ^Letters to 

 Lord Walsingham — Skuas — Protection of eggs— Protection of 

 areas — Society for the Protection of Birds — Egg-collecting . 136 



