HISTORY OF MANX ORNITHOLOGY XXxix 
had by this time been formed at Douglas by Mr. J. R. 
Wallace. Mr. Wallace, who was a printer at Douglas, kept 
his collections, which included objects of antiquarian as well 
as zoological interest, in his house in Great Nelson Street (see 
Manz Notes and Queries, p. 152). (They were later removed 
to Distington, near Whitehaven, and were finally broken 
up in 1899, the articles being sold by auction. At the sale 
the Manx Government was represented, and bought some 
archeological relics, but the birds unfortunately seem to 
have passed unnoticed by any Manxman. The late Rev. 
H. A. Macpherson, however, communicated to the Zoologist 
(1899, p. 420) details of several specimens of interest from 
the Isle of Man, three of which, purchased by himself, he 
afterwards presented to the Isle of Man Natural History 
and Antiquarian Society.) 
In 1827, or thereabouts, Sir William Jardine had visited 
the island, and many notes on its avifauna occur in his 
volumes on British birds in the ‘ Naturalists’ Library ’ (1838- 
43), Among these are interesting accounts of the Chough 
and Shag as Manx species.’ 
In 1865 A. G. More’s paper on ‘ The Distribution of Birds 
breeding in Britain,’ appeared in the Ibis, containing infor- 
mation on Man, supplied him by J. F. Crellin. Dr. (called 
by More Mr.) J. F. Crellin (born 1816, died 1887) was pro- 
prietor of Orrisdale, where his collection of birds is still 
kept,” and father of Mr. J. C, Crellin, so often quoted in 
these pages. Among the species noted by him are the 
Eagle (as extinct), Twite, Kittiwake, and Black Guillemot. 
The Naturalists Note-Book (1867) contains a short and 
faulty article quoted from Land and Water, to which it 
1 Mr, J. A. Harvie-Brown and Professor Newton have kindly looked through 
a quantity of Sir W. Jardine’s correspondence in their hands, in hope of dis- 
covering further matter relating to Man, but without success. 
2 I am indebted to Mrs, Crellin, of Orrisdale, for kindly permitting me access 
to the collection. 
