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a good old custom, apparently discontinued about the same time as 
the conversaziones and lectures), was conducive to an interchange 
of ideas with men of kindred tastes. It was at these reunions he 
became acquainted with the late Mr. J . I). Salmon, whose valuable 
botanical, and a portion of his oological collection were bequeathed 
to the Museum. Ilis fellow worker also, in those days, in the 
Natural History Department, Mr. John Henry Gurney, the now 
permanent President of the institution, receives in his preface the 
warm thanks of the author of the ‘ Fauna,’ for contributions on 
the subject of Norfolk ornithology. 
From the above sketch, then, of a life not otherwise eventful or 
noteworthy in the ‘ Transactions ’ of this society, except in con- 
nection with the ‘Fauna of Norfolk,’ it is not difficult to trace 
the secret of the success of that very unpretentious volume, now 
many years out of print, which attained at once, and still retains 
amongst naturalists, at home and abroad, the position of a standard 
work. There is scarcely a writer, since 1845, on the birds of the 
United Kingdom that does not quote Lubbock, and in ornitho- 
logical works comprehending a far wider geographical range his 
name as surely finds an honoured place in reference to the habits 
of wildfowl and species extinct- only in the last half century in the 
marshes of Norfolk. His classical attainments lent that charm to 
his writings which only an acquaintance with ancient as well as 
modern literature can afford, and the happy combination, in his 
case, of the well-read naturalist with the practical experience of the 
sportsman, gave the stamp of truth to his graphic descriptions. 
These, too, indisputable as to their facts, will in years to come have 
an even greater importance: as the faithful records of those physical 
changes and their effects on the avi-fauna of our heaths and marshes, 
which, commencing in his earlier days, fulfilled, ere the close of 
his long life in 1876, not a few of his prognostications in 1845. 
Of the works of earlier writers on the Fauna of this county, 
few, if any, seem to have escaped his notice, including Sir Thomas 
Browne’s notes and the “items” bearing upon natural history 
subjects, in the Northumberland ‘Household Book,’ and the 
somewhat similar ‘ Accounts ’of the L’Estrangos of Hunstanton; 
but though commencing only with Bewick as his chief authority, 
ho seems to have acquired with avidity the widely extended in- 
formation contained in the later publications of Selby, Jardine, 
