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VIII. 
EXTRACTS FROM THE CALENDAR 
OF THE REV. WILLDLAI WHITEAR, M.A., F.LS. 
1809 TO 1826. 
(Comimmicatoa hy Miss Mahy Wiiitear.) 
J^cad 2 C)th March, i88i. 
[fs U.0 introduction to tlio “Letters Ifelating to the Jfatural 
tsm l™WMliod in our ‘Transactions’ (vol. ii 
I 388), a hope was expressed that tlicir publication miglit lead to 
the . .scovery of similar literary remains, stored up and possibly 
fo gotten m the houses of many of our county and city Lilies 
Such a hope has happily been realized by the discovery of the 
nbjomed Journal and interesting Ornithological Notes, .nado by 
U.e ate Lev, W, Imm Whitear, F.LS., of Starston, in Norfolk, the 
.irait author arith the Rev. Eevett Sheppard, F.L.S., of IVrabness, 
Usex, and subsequently of Willisham, Suffolk, of the well-known 
and constantly quoted “Catalogue of the Norfolk and Suffolk Birds, 
ti Remarks, whicluvas published in the ■ Transactions ’ of the 
Lumean Society (vol. xv. 1820), having been read before the 
members of-that society on April 20th, 1824, and Jlay 3rd, 1825 
lor the acquisition of these (for the most part) hitherto un- 
published notes tho Society is, in the first instance, indebted to Mr 
Stetonson, at whose instigation they were searched for, and to Mr, 
. Candler, of Harleston, who sp.ared no pains or trouble to obtain 
from the surviving members of Mr. Whitear’s family, permission 
due to Miss M hitear, of Wortwell, by whom (little knowing their 
uological interest m the pi-esent day) these records of the past were 
treasured, in remembrance of her fattier, and at once freely placed 
at the dispos.al of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society. 
lio ^otes themselves are contained in two separate books : one 
a small 8vo of paper, simply stitched through the back ; the other 
smaller still (3 by 5 in.), and bound in whole calf, having much 
