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Sbv“of’stlT Eev. Samuel 
IfS'i to St T 1 ° Suffolk; thence ho proceeded, in 
,7t! ’ Cambridge, the Eer. James Wood 
afterwards Master of the College, being his tutor, and took hi^ 
-A. degree in 1800, with the honour of fifth Wrangler. In 1801 
tho'T- ° of bis college, and in 1803 entered upon 
N-orfnllr^^n Starston, Korfolk, on tlio presentation of the Duke of 
of the 11 r ""“““‘'“O fo tills living, although in the patronage 
111 I 80 f M°’ w,"* ‘■“‘"'‘“5’ of Job"'® College. 
At St »» l'ito.ar married Miss Holmes, of Gawdy Hall. 
At Starstoii Mr. Whitoar seems to have entered into the duties of 
wMiTJal'’"'*'”'’ " Magistrate for the Comity, 
riftwem ” ooooossfnlly as to have won, during 
hia^ twenty years ministry, the love and esteem of all who knew 
noGo a® a Naturalist, the author of the obituair 
lotico in the Gentleuian's M,agarino' for March, 1837 (voL xcvii. 
iotl!w r?/ “'i • ° I’orticiilars are mainly gleaned, says 
oth iig, hut from his son, tho present Eev. -William IVhitear, I learn 
hat ho corresponded ivith Hooker, Colonel Montagu, and Eaillon, 
Tf irto . f. To"=»rinck, although, 
Mr V "^li°^’i”rm ‘™ ““'v to bo found. Of 
. \ouell and Lilly Wigg, of Varmoutli, as well as of other local 
Naturalists, mention is made in his Calendar; and he appears t 
have made exchanges with, or presentations of specimens of Luml 
Ilmtory objects to, the British Museum, the Museum of the Jardin 
visited at Abbeville, in 1818; in which year, during a tour in 
iiiTaris°aud Lalreille 
a fti^w h.m introduced to Dufresne. Ho was elected 
. clow of the Liniiean Society on June 15th, 1819, his proposers 
bmg Joseph Sabine, Edward Sabine, and Alexander MoLeay 
of Jur'^.d 8H i ” ‘b“ i® "Oder date 
15th ^s'lr ’ /"bscquont summer visits were paid on May 
llm l’ ’ ,1 J 1818; and although the records of 
heso visib are .all too brief, they are still of gro.at interest, from 
0 mention of tho birds found breeding there at that time. The 
substance of many of tho notes will he found repeated in the 
