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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[TRISTRAM 
wards at Lincoln College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1844, 
taking a second class in Classics. 
In 1845 Tristram was ordained deacon by the Bishop of 
Exeter, and priest in the following year, having been appointed 
Curate of Morchard Bishop. But, showing signs of a weak 
chest, he was ordered abroad, and passed two years (1847- 
1849) as naval and military chaplain in Bermuda. In the 
latter year he was nominated Hector of Castle Eden, in 
Durham, and in 1860 Master of Greatham Hospital and Vicar 
of Greatham, where he remained until 1873, when he was 
appointed Canon of Durham, and resided in that city till his 
decease on March 8, 1906. 
From his early youth devoted to natural history, Tristram 
commenced his writings in the Zoologist , the first being “ On 
the Occurrence of the Little Auk in Durham,” published in 
1853 (Zool. p. 3753). Other short notes in the same periodical 
followed in 1854, 1856, 1859, and 1861. His first visit to 
Algeria was made in the winter of 1855-56. The results of 
this and subsequent expeditions were a series of papers on 
the ornithology of Northern Africa published in the Ibis in 
1859, 1860, and 1861, and the very attractive volume on his 
journeyings in the “ Great Sahara,” issued in 1860. Another 
country to which Tristram devoted special attention was 
Palestine, which he first visited in 1858, while in 1872, 
1881, 1894, and 1897 he paid other visits, and in 1884 his 
Fauna and Flora of Palestine was issued by the Palestine 
Exploration Fund. His best-known work, however, was 
The Natural History of the Bible (1867), which passed through 
many editions. 
His extensive and valuable collection of birds’ skins, 
containing “ 20,000 specimens referable to 6000 species, of 
which 150 are types,” was acquired by the Liverpool Museum 
before his death. About the same time the Canon’s large 
and valuable collection of birds’ eggs was disposed of to Mr. 
Philip Crowley, of Waddon House, Croydon. At Crowley’s 
death, in 1901, it was directed that the whole of his collec- 
tion of eggs should be presented to the British Museum. 
