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memory in St. Olave’s Church, Crutched Friars, and on it we 
may read, says Macpherson, that the great naturalist was 
“ac tandem corpus senio, ac laboribus confectum ” when he 
answered the last roll call. By the kindness of the Rev. 
T. Wellard, the tector of St. Olave’s, a photograph of 
this tablet, which was erected by the affectionate care of 
Turner’s widow, is here reproduced. 
Pierre Belon.—Peter Belon, a French naturalist, was born 
about 1519, and was the author of an illustrated work on 
ornithology, bearing the title of ‘“ Histoire de la Nature des 
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Oyseaux ” (1555), which contains a good deal that is original 
—as, for example, passages referring to the Barn Owls at 
Metz (p. 144), the Pelicans at Rama (p. 155), the Mergansers 
on the Loire (p. 164), the Gulls at Havre and Dieppe (p. 170), 
the white Herons which Turner saw in England (p. 191), and 
the Storks on the Hellespont (p. 202). When visiting England 
Belon met with the Stone Curlew (p. 239), while he notes the 
protection given to Ravens (p. 279), and to Kites (p. 131), 
but not much else apparently. However, in his own country 
he had more opportunities, and here he does not fail to tell 
us about the breeding of the Spoonbill. In his day, the 
