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as theirs, and may not offer quite such seductive hopes of fresh 
discovery, there is still abundant employment for our leisure hours, 
and ample reward in store for those who will seriously pursue any 
branch of the study of nature. 
There was another class of men who -were equally famous in 
their day as those we have already named, I refer to the professional 
gunners and the bird dealers, into whose hands most of the good 
things came. In the introduction to the second edition of Lubbock’s 
! Fauna,’ I have spoken somewhat at length of this interesting 
class of men, and given some anecdotes culled from Mr. Lubbock’s 
papers and other sources, both of their mode of life, the primitive 
apparatus used in their trade, and of the wonderful results they 
often achieved. Their knowledge of the haunts and habits of the 
wild-fowl which they pursued must have been very extensive, and 
nothing but the keenest love of sport could have induced them to 
undergo the hardships incidental to their chosen mode of life ; I doubt 
not old Thomas felt as great a degree of pride in accomplishing a 
trood shot under difficult circumstances as ever did Colonel Hawdter 
or Sir Kalph Payne-Gallwey. In addition to the gunners were dealers 
and bird-stuffers, notable amongst whom were the two Harveys, 
and later on Durrant ; a fabulous number of birds used to pass 
through these men’s hands, and occasionally something turned up 
which they were unaccustomed to meet with, and which fetched a 
good price from the collectors. I regret also to be obliged to add 
that some of these men were unscrupulous enough to attempt to 
pass off birds or skins of foreign origin as local productions, and 
in some cases they were successful in doing so, a thing which 
I trust never happens with the dealers of the present day. 
And who were the customers to these men? There seems to 
have been a passion for collecting in Yarmouth, very intelligent 
collectors they were too, and I have recently seen a most interesting- 
pamphlet of 1G5 pages, which appears to have been printed about 
the year 1795, and under the title of ‘Museum Boulterianum,’ is 
descriptive of the collections of one Daniel Boulter of Yarmouth ; 
there were 4420 numbered lots, consisting of an infinite variety of 
objects, Quadrupeds, Birds, Beptiles, Eggs, Fishes, Crustaceans, 
