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considerable, so that his herbarium contains representatives of 
most British Phanerogams as well as of Ferns. 
The study of ornithology possessed, to him, entrancing and life- 
long interest. He was familiar, not only with the birds of his own 
district, but with those of other parts of England. He visited 
many — then comparatively unknown — parts of Scotland in search 
of birds and their nests. 
As early as 1844 he went to the Western Highlands, and 
possibly visited Skye ; but four years later he made a prolonged 
visit to the Hebrides. 
Leaving Lynn by the steam-packet for Hull, he there took 
another steamer to Newcastle, and thence one to Grangemouth. 
From Edinburgh to Glasgow he travelled by train, and so reached 
Greenock, where he again took his passage on board a steam- 
boat to Broadford in Skye. He visited the romantic Loch Coruisk. 
Crossing the island he spent a night at Sligachan, and so on to 
Portree, where he caught the “Mary Jane” to Stornoway. 
From a memorandum book which he took with him, we learn 
that the whole distance was accomplished at an expenditure of 
twenty-four shillings and tenpence ! Once in the Island of Harris 
he was on the ground it had so long been his wish to visit. 
From Stornoway, Callernash, Tualval and Loch Erisort were . 
visited ; he then made his way southward through Achlin to 
Tarbert and Obbe, collecting eggs and observing the features of 
the country and its productions. Here he saw the inhabitants not 
only spinning and weaving, but was much impressed by watching 
the process of felting or wanking done by a number of women 
beating in unison the newly woven cloth with their hands, to 
render it more compact, at the same time chanting a plaintive 
Gaelic song. He ferried over the Sound into Uist, where he made 
Loch Maddy his centre. 
To show how closely everything was observed by him, the 
following verbatim extract from his note book is given : — 
“1st day: — (Sunday) Went to the head of the Loch (Loch Maddy) over 
sand, 2 miles — Ring Doterell numerous — Saw several Eider ducks — Small 
flock of birds I suppose they were Stints, could not tell. Plants Sea-kale, 
Viola lutea, Glaux maritima , Arenaria peploides , Scurvy grass. Rats but 
no rabbits on the sand hills. Sand composed of small white particles of 
granite. A man told me there were 16 parts of lime in it. Hard crust in 
