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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WALLACE 
for several guide-books. He died at 58 Belgrave Road, 
Pimlico, December 22, 1880. 
1859. A Guide to the South Coast of England, from the Reculvers to the 
Land’s End, and from Cape Cornwall to the Devon Foreland. 
London (Stanford) : mdccclix. 
1 vol. 12mo, pp. xxiv + pp 601, maps. 
Birds of Sussex, pp. 158, 184, 185, 187, 217, 218, 253. 
Rare Birds, pp. 105, 260, 265, 303, 339, 368, 382, 414. 
A Guide to the Coast of Devon & Cornwall. London (Stanford) : 
MDCCCLIX. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii +pp. 413-590, map. Published 
separately, but forms a section of above work. 
A brief mention of “ rare birds ” at p. 414. 
1860. A Guide to the Coasts of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, descriptive of 
Scenery, etc. London (Stanford) : 1860. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, title +pp. v-xi +pp. 126, with map. 
Birds of Suffolk at pp. 48-9 ; of Norfolk at p. 80. 
[1861]. A Guide to the Mountains, Lakes, and North-West Coast of 
England, descriptive of Natural Scenery, etc. London and 
Carlisle : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 243, with map. 
Birds of Cumberland, etc., at p. 16. 
Wallace (Rev. James), 1639-88 
The earliest record we bave of this author is his studying 
at the University of Aberdeen, where he graduated M.A. 
April 27, 1659. He was shortly afterwards appointed 
minister of Ladykirk in the Orkneys, from whence he was 
translated to Kirkwall in November 1672. He married 
Elizabeth Cuthbert, and had three sons and a daughter. He 
died of fever in November 1688, “ in the fiftieth year of his 
age,” his Description of the Isles of Orkney , which was 
written about 1688, being published posthumously in 1693 
by his eldest son and namesake, James Wallace. The work 
was dedicated to Sir Robert Sibbald, at whose request 
Wallace had originally undertaken it, and to whom a MS. 
draft of it appears originally to have been sent. In 1700 his 
son published in his own name an Account of the Islands of 
Orkney , which consisted of the 1693 work, with some addi- 
tions, including a chapter on the plants and shells, but with 
