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dim ; and during the remainder of his stay on earth, like a little 

 child he was led by the hand. 



On the 27th of January, 1851, the summons came, and as he 

 lay upon his bed, surrounded by his family, his eyes regained 

 their lustre, as though they penetrated the valley and looked 

 beyond the river into the land which is ever far off, and with his 

 hands clasped in those of his wife, he passed peacefully away. 

 He sleeps by the side of a noble river, which, in its fair and 

 full proportions, with stately sweep moves calmly onward to the 

 great deep so near at hand, while above him, bearing upon its 

 chiselled sides reproductions from his own drawings, rises the 

 splendid monument now unveiled in honour of his memory and 

 to commemorate his work. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Professor Newton's ' Dictionary of Birds.'— The first part of Prof. 

 Newton's ' Dictionary of Birds,' which has long been announced as in pre- 

 paration, will be published in June. It is based upon the articles contributed 

 by him to the ninth edition of the ■ Encyclopaedia Britannica,' but contains 

 besides a large number of others by himself and Dr. Gadow, the Strickland 

 Curator at Cambridge, together with contributions by Mr. Lydekker, Prof. 

 Roy, and Dr. Schiifeldt. The work is to consist of four parts, and when 

 complete will form a demy 8vo volume of about 1000 pages, copiously 

 illustrated. The publishers, Messrs. Adam & Charles Black, promise 

 Part II. in October next. 



Protection of Sea-birds on the Fame Islands.— The naturalists who 



have formed an association for the purpose of protecting the sea-fowl which 



annually resort to breed on the Fame Islands, are to be congratulated on 



the success of their efforts. The following report has just been issued by 



the Hon. Secretary, Mr. H. A. Paynter, of Freelands, Alnwick, and it is 



satisfactory to note that long-banished species, like the Roseate Tern, are 



returning to their old nesting haunts, while others, like the Sandwich Tern, 



have considerably increased in number. Mr. Paynter writes as follows: — 



11 The breeding season, 1892, although a cold one, turned out well, the Eider 



Ducks increased very much, and whereas a few years ago there were very 



few to be seen, last year there were many hundreds. I knew of seventy 



nests on the Inner Fame and Wideopens which hatched off. The Arctic 



Terns, although no young were reared in 1891, were as numerous as ever, 



and there w<>re more than a thousand nests on the Knoxes and Wideopens. 



