

CONCLUSION. 



Before taking leave of this fascinating subject, I desire to 

 express, however inadequately, my warm appreciation of the 

 good-fellowship with which my brother naturalists in Lakeland 

 have always sought to strengthen my hands. The names of 

 Messrs. C. F. Archibald, W. Duckworth, W. Nicol, E. Mann, 

 and several others occur so often in the text, that they would 

 hardly perhaps thank me for enlarging on this topic. The fact is, 

 that I have never failed to secure the assistance of my friends 

 on any single occasion. On the contrary, I have found them 

 ever ready to back me up in investigating matters of local 

 interest. An old college friend, Mr. H. Patricks Senhouse, 

 M.B.O.U., placed at my disposal more than twenty letters of 

 the late T. C. Heysham, which carried the observations of that 

 lamented naturalist down to a much later date than his private 

 papers. To the liberality of Mr. Harry Arnold I owe the 

 privilege of having been able to quote the unpublished notes 

 of that lovable scientist, the late Dr. Gough. I have to thank 

 my brother clerics in the Diocese of Carlisle for the hearty 

 welcome which they gave me, to ransack the unpublished 

 archives of the oldest and most mountainous parishes. The 

 late beloved Lord Bishop of Carlisle always expressed a warm 

 interest in my attempts to stir up an interest in zoology in the 

 different parishes of his diocese. On the last occasion that it 

 was ever my privilege to meet our deceased friend — in the draw- 

 ing-room at Bowness vicarage — he remembered my hobby, and 

 with the bonhommie which ever characterised his relations with 

 his juniors, offered his spontaneous congratulations on the 

 addition to our list of the Frigate Petrel ; an incident which 

 seemed to interest him thoroughly, trivial as most persons 

 would have considered it. Let me take this opportunity of 





