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Studios, Fitzroy Road, Regent’s Park, where he died un- 
married April 20, 1899. 
1853. The Poets of the Woods. Twelve Pictures of English Song Birds. 
London (Bosworth) : 1853. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, pp. 56+pp. 2. 
“ The plates after water-colour Drawings by Joseph Wolf.” 
The letterpress consists of extracts from various poetical works. 
1854. Leathered Favourites : Twelve Coloured Pictures of British Birds 
from drawings by Joseph Wolf. London (Bosworth) : 1854. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, 12 col. pi. pp. vi un. +pp. 54. (Pub. 
18s.) Comprises 12 pi., printed in colours, with poetical contribu- 
tions by Howitt, Montgomery, Clare, Mant, Cornwall, Wordsworth, 
Tennyson, etc. 
Wolley (John), 1824-59 
Sprung from a Derbyshire family of fair repute and 
antiquity, Wolley was born at Matlock, on May 13, 1824, 
being the eldest son of the Rev. John Hurt and Mary his 
wife, eldest daughter of Adam Wolley, Esq., of Matlock. 
At the decease of his father-in-law in 1827, .Mr. Hurt 
assumed the name and arms of Wolley. 
In 1836 Wolley went to Eton, and in October 1842 to 
Cambridge, where he entered into residence at Trinity College. 
With Wolley’ s ardent love for natural history it is not sur- 
prising to find that most of his time while at the University 
was passed in the Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire fens 
and woods, which then afforded a rich field for the researches 
of a naturalist. In the long vacation of 1845 he started on a 
trip to the South of Spain, and after visiting Cadiz, Seville, 
and Gibraltar, crossed the Straits to Tangier. In January 
1846, Wolley graduated as a B.A. and left the University. 
He then went to live in London, and entered at the Middle 
Temple with the intention of studying law. 
Towards the end of 1847 he repaired to Edinburgh, and 
joined medical classes at that University, where he diligently 
applied himself for the next three years to the course of study 
necessary for obtaining a physician’s degree. The vacations, 
however, he devoted to what now became his main object — 
