Birds. i:;i 



Newnes (Sir George), Bart. 



186 birds and eggs from Victoria Land. Presented [1001 I 

 1-c.l; L901. 1. 7, 1 -loi : L901. 2. 5, 1 -6; L901. L2. 1, 1 L2. 



This is the collection made by the late Nikolai Sanson ana Mr. II 

 Evans on the expedition of the Southern Cross, and descrih 

 ■•Report on the collections of Natural History'' from thai 

 pp. 10G-172, pis. vii.-x.), published by the Trustees in I 



Newton (Professor Alfred), F.E.S. 



21 specimens from the islands of St. Thomas and St. 

 West Indies. Presented. [59. 3. 25, 7-27.] 



An account of the birds collected in St. Croix by Professor .V 

 and his brother, Sir Hdward Newton, is published il 

 (1 .p. 59-69, pi. i., 138-150, 252-264, 365-379, pL rii. ). 



For the scientific work of this celebrated British omith I 

 'Who's Who,' 1905, p. 1186, from which publication I havi 

 the following notes : — 



Professor Newton was a Travelling Fellow of Magdalen* I 

 Cambridge, 1854-63, visiting Lapland, Iceland, West India 1 

 North America ; re-elected Fellow, 1877 ; in L864 accompanied M 

 Sir) Edward Birkbeck to Spitsbergen ; brought the Bubjecl of Bird Pro- 

 tection before British Association, 1868; for several years I hs rman of 

 the Close-time Committee, during which time were passed the first three 

 Actsof Parliament for Protection of Birds; gave especial attention I • 

 ing faunas of Mascarene and Sandwich Islands; Chairman many y< 

 British Association Migration of Birds Committee; 

 President of the Royal and (frequently) Zoological Society ; P 

 Cambridge Philosophical Society; awarded gold medal oi i 

 and one of the Royal medals adjudged by the Royal Society, 1900. 

 Publicatioyis: "The Zoology of Ancient Europe," 1 862 ; M The I 'mil 

 of Iceland" (Appendix to Mr. Baring-Gould's work on that island, I - 

 "Ootheca Wolleyana," 1864-1902; "Aves in the Record of 

 Literature" (vols, i.-vi.); "Zoology," 1874 (2nd <■;.. L894 • I 

 Greenland" (Arctic Manual, 1875); "A Dictionary of B 

 numerous contributions to scientific journals and articles in ■• 

 psddia Britannica," 9th ed. ; editor of the " Ibis," new series, L8( 

 "The Zoological Record," 1870-72 ; "Yarrell's British Birds" 

 vols. i. ii., 1871-82. 



Nicoll (Michael J.) 



An enthusiastic young observer who lias accompani< url of 



Crawford's voyages round the world, as naturalist on board the Valhalla 



(1902-3) (1903-4) (1905-6). lb- was born at Bepton in - 

 and takes great interest in the birds of his native county. 

 See Crawford, Earl of. 



Nicholson (Francis). 



81 birds from Beligoland. Presented. [76. 11. 28, l 



Mr. Nicholson is a very zealous ornithologist, and fon 

 party when I accompanied Mr. Seebohm on his well-known joun 

 Heligoland (</. « [bis/ L877, pp. L56 I 



69 birds from Abeokuta, West Africa. Presented. [77.11.1 



These birds wen- collected by lir, Robin tnd 

 Mr. Nicholson in the " Pi 

 (pp. L28-131, ; 1. r.). Estrilda tharpei was 



