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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WALLIS 
leisure time for more than twenty years to the study of natural 
history, and the collecting of materials for his great work on 
Northumberland. The plants appear to have received great 
attention from him, and these he named according to Ray ; 
but his identification of some two or three of the more re- 
markable ones has been held erroneous (cf. N. J. Winch, Tr. 
Nat. Hist. Soc. Northumb. ii. p. 145 ). The first volume of 
the undernoted book contains the natural history, including 
an important section on the birds, and the second volume 
the antiquities. In 1771 a change of rectors caused Wallis 
to leave the curacy, and for a time he resided with his college 
friend, Edward Wilson, vicar of Haltwhistle. In 1775 he 
acted as temporary curate at Haughton le Skerne, and from 
that year until 1792 was curate of Billingham, near Stock- 
ton, resigning in the latter year on account of increasing 
infirmities. 
Shortly before this a small estate had fallen to him on the 
death of a brother, and Bishop Shute Barrington allowed him 
an annual pension after his resignation, but during the whole 
of his working life he never had anything better than a curacy 
of £30 a year (Nichols, Lit. Anec. viii. p. 745 ). He died at 
Norton, whither he had removed, on July 19 , 1793 , leaving a 
small but valuable collection of natural history and other 
books. His wife Elizabeth, with whom his fifty-six years of 
married happiness is said to have become almost proverbial 
in their neighbourhood, survived until 1801 (Winch, T.c. 
p. 145 ). 
1769. The | Natural History | and | Antiquities | of | Northumberland : 
| And of so much of the County of | Durham | As lies between 
the Rivers Tyne and Tweed ; | commonly called, | North Bishop- 
rick. | In Two Volumes. | By John Wallis, A.M. | Vol. I. [II.] | 
London : | Printed for the Author, by W. and W. Strahan ; | and 
sold by S. Bladon, in Pater-noster-Row. | mdcclxix. 
Collation — 2 vols. 4to (Vol. II. treats of “ the Antiquities ”). 
Vol. I. pp. 4 un. +pp. xxvii + pp. 4 “ Contents ” + pp. 438 +p. 1 
errata. Vol. II. pp. 4 un. +pp. 562 +pp. 23 “Appendix of 
Instruments and Errata.” 
Birds treated of in Vol. I. pp. 309-46. 
