WALLIS] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
609 
the preface and the dedication to Sibbald omitted, and a 
dedication to the Earl of Dorset substituted. For further 
particulars vide Introduction to Brown’s reprint. 
1693. A | Description | of the Isles of | Orkney; | By Master James 
Wallace, late | Minister of Kirkwall, Pub- | lished after his 
Death by his Son. | To which is added, an Essay con- | cerning 
the Thule of the Ancients. | [Engraving of Crown] Edinburgh, | 
Printed by John Reid, In the Year | m.dc.xciii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 12 un. +pp. 94 +pp. 1-36, 3 folding 
plates of cuts, including one of “ Ember Goose.” 
Birds at pp. 16, 17, 18. 
2nd edit. : 1700. 
An | Account | of the | Islands | of | Orkney. | By James Wallace, 
M.D. | And Fellow of the Royal Society. | To which is Added, 
an Essay con- | cerning the Thule of the Ancients. | London, | 
Printed for Jacob Tonson within Gray’s- | Inn-Gate, next Gray’s- 
Inn-Lane, 1700. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 10 un. +pp. 182 and plates. 
Birds treated of on pp. 47, 48, and 49. 
Idem. Reprint [by Brown of] Edinburgh. 1883. 1 vol. 8vo. 
(Edited by John Small.) 
Note . — Title not in facsimile, and pagination different to first 
edition. 
Wallace (Robert L.) 
This writer, who we understand was postmaster at Dudley, 
was also author of The Canary Book (1879 : 2nd edit. 1884 ). 
[1886]. British Cage Birds. . . . Illustrated with Coloured Plates and . . . 
Wood Engravings. London (Upcott Gill), n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. vi + pp. 504, 32 pi. num. cuts in text. 
Wallis (John), 1714-93 
This author, one of the earliest of English county natural 
historians, was born at Castlenook, South Tindale, in the 
parish of Kirkhaugh, Northumberland, in 1714 , and was the 
son of John Wallis, or Wallace, of Croglin, Cumberland. He 
entered the University of Oxford, matriculated from Queen’s 
College, February 3 , 1732 - 33 , graduated B.A. in 1737 , and 
proceeded M.A. in 1740 . He took Holy Orders, becoming 
a curate first in the neighbourhood of Portsmouth and after- 
wards at Simonburu, Northumberland, where he devoted his 
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