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of Edinburgh, Session 1875-76. 
“ Illustrations of Ornithology.” In 1833 he undertook a still 
more important work, “ The Naturalists’ Library,” forty volumes of 
which appeared in the course of the next ten years — a work for 
which he obtained contributions from the best scientific naturalists 
in the kingdom; — but of this work, no less than fourteen volumes 
are made up of contributions by Sir William exclusively. He also 
published a new edition of Alexander Wilson’s “ American Orni- 
thology;” started and carried on for some time a magazine of 
zoology and botany ; and was also for some years a joint editor of 
the “Edinburgh Philosophical Journal.” 
Here is a list of other works which flowed from his pen New 
edition of “White’s Selborne,” “British Salmonidse,” “ Ichthyo- 
logy of Annandale.” 
A still more important work by Sir William Jardine was en- 
titled “Contributions to Ornithology,” in three volumes, extend- 
ing from the year 1848 to 1852. This work contains descriptions 
and coloured figures of many species of birds previously unknown. 
Another publication was “ Memoirs of the late Hugh Edwin Strick- 
land,” in the year 1858. Mr Strickland had married a daughter 
of Sir William. He was a good geologist. He unfortunately was 
killed in a railway tunnel, the rocks of which he was examining 
when a train came on him unexpectedly. 
Jardine’ s frequent visits to Northumberland, to co-operate with 
his friend Mr Selby of Twizell, brought him into acquaintance witli 
Dr Johnston of Berwick-on-Tweed, who was well versed in botany 
and marine zoology. Dr Johnston having about this time founded 
the Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club, Sir William Jardine joined it 
in September 1832, and in that year contributed papers of some 
value on the “Parr” and the “Silver White,” small fish of the 
salmon species, which frequented the Tweed and many other 
rivers. At that time, the true nature of these fish was not known, 
though it has since been well ascertained that the parr are the 
young of the true salmon in their first year’s growth. 
Sir William Jardine was President of the Berwickshire Natura- 
lists’ Club in the year 1836, and frequently attended its meetings 
in subsequent years. 
In the year 1860 he was one of the’ Royal Commissioners 
appointed to investigate the Salmon Fisheries of England and 
