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of 1834 lie made the ascent of Mont Blanc (the sixteenth 
recorded ascent to be made of that mountain), an account 
of which he published in due course. About 1835 he seems 
to have turned his attention to embryology, in which branch 
of science his greatest work was accomplished ; further 
particulars of his medical career may be obtained from the 
memoir by Professor Owen in the Edinburgh Medical Journal , 
July 1855. About the year 1846, owing to a breakdown in 
health, brought on by his devotion to study, Dr. Martin 
Barry retired to the Isle of Arran, and during his residence 
there commenced, as we learn from the above-mentioned 
memoir, “ the formation of an Egg Museum. This he after- 
wards extended, until he had at least an egg of every British 
bird.” In 1853 he removed to Beccles in Suffolk, and took up 
his residence near that of his brother-in-law, Dr. Dashwood, 
to whom he afterwards bequeathed his egg collection. There 
he remained till his decease in April 1855. 
Birds that have bred in the Isle of Arran since 1835, by Dr. Martin 
Barry, M.D., F.R.S. 
(No date or place of imprint or publisher’s name. There is no 
title-page, the above legend being stamped on the green cloth 
cover.) 
Collation — pamphlet 12mo, pp. 4. 
For particulars of the above-noted famous forgery vide Ibis , 
1863, pp. 370-76 and 477-9, and J. H. Gurney’s Rambles of 
a Naturalist. A resume of the contents will be found at pp. 
477-8 of the Ibis, 1863. 
Two copies of the above are in the Newton Library, Cambridge. 
Bartholomaeus Anglicus,^. 1230-60 
This writer, variously styled Bartholomaeus Anglicus or 
Bartholomew de Glanville, was by birth an Englishman and 
by profession a Minorite friar. He was professor of theology 
in the University of Paris, and was afterwards instructor 
of theology to the Franciscans of Saxony. The actual date 
of his well-known work, Be Proprietatibus Rerum , is uncertain. 
He probably compiled it between the years 1248 and 1267 
(cf. Mediaeval Lore, 8vo, London, 1893). He is worthy of 
mention here as being the author of one of the earliest printed 
