IN MEMORIAM. 
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There were two other tasks which the Professor proposed 
to carry out, and for the performance of which he had 
collected an immense amount of material, but which his 
busy life did not permit of his accomplishing ; the one was an 
exhaustive history of the extinction of the Great Auk, or 
Gare-fowl as he preferred to call it, and the other a like 
history of the extinction of the Great Bustard in Britain. 
Of the former he gave us a foretaste in a paper in the ‘ Ibis ’ 
for i8bi, entitled “ An Abstract of Mr. J. Wolley’s Researches 
in Iceland respecting the Gare-fowl or Great Auk,” and 
a paper in the ‘ Natural History Review,’ “ The Gare-fowl 
and its Historians,” in 1865 ; also a second paper in the ‘ Ibis ' 
on “ The Orcadian Home of the Gare-fowl ” in 1898. In 
the ‘ Otheca Wolleyana ’ are figured the seven eggs of this 
extinct bird in the Wolley Collection, together with illustra- 
tions of thirteen others reproduced in plaster, and coloured in 
fac-simile by the late John Hancock. Of the extinction of the 
Great Bustard in Britain, a subject in which for many years 
he took the greatest interest, the raw material I believe exists 
in his ” Otidiana” but although he generously gave great 
assistance to Mr. Stevenson and myself when writing the 
history of that species in the ‘ Birds of Norfolk,’ I believe 
he published nothing but the history of the eggs of that 
species contained in the Wolley Collection as described in 
the ‘ Otheca.’ 
But his published works, numerous as they are and valuable, 
do not represent a tithe of his services to ornithology; there 
are few modern books of any repute on the subject which are 
not directly or indirectly indebted to him. and many have 
been wholly inspired by, or are due to, his initiation. In 
recognition of his services to Zoology he was awarded a gold 
medal of the Royal Society, of which body he had served as 
a Vice-President, and in 1900 he was the recipient of the gold 
medal of the Linnean Society. 
I have already mentioned the interest which Professor 
Newton took in tracing the extinction of the vanished fauna not 
only of the continent of Europe as evinced by his valuable paper 
on the ” Zoology of Ancient Europe,” but also of the islands of 
