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the desire of forming an oological collection, all the speci- 
mens of which should be thoroughly well authenticated. 
To gain this end, no labour was too severe, no personal 
hardship too great for him to undergo. Accordingly, 
the summer of 1848 found him visiting the northern 
extremity of our island, and he extended his excursion 
to the Orkneys and Shetlands. Profiting by the know- 
ledge gained the preceding year, he started early in 1849 for 
the north, and during a journey through Caithness and 
Sutherland, most of which was 'performed on foot, devoted 
himself to investigating the habits of the larger birds of 
prey, many of his notes as to the nesting of which are to be 
found in the Ootheca Wolleyana. Leaving the British Isles 
in the month of June, he visited the Faeroes, and passed 
several weeks studying the ornithology of those islands, for 
which his activity and fearlessness in rock-climbing afforded 
him so great an advantage. An account of the birds of this 
interesting group will be found printed in Sir William Jardine’s 
Contributions to Ornithology for 1850. 
After another expedition to the Highlands, in the course 
of which he became acquainted with some eagle localities in 
Argyllshire and Perthshire of remarkable interest, he again 
took up his abode in London, and continued to reside there 
until the spring of 1853, when he was enabled to put into 
execution a plan the idea of which had for several years 
haunted him, and which devolved into those several remark- 
able expeditions to Lapland which have been described in 
the pages of the Ibis and elsewhere, and which are admirably 
summarised in that journal for March 1909. 
Wolley died November 20, 1859, and in accordance with 
his last wish his remains were interred in the churchyard at 
Matlock — his birthplace — and his vast collection of eggs was 
handed over to his friend Alfred Newton, who subsequently 
published, under the title of Ootheca Wolleyana, a full catalogue 
of the treasures it contained, as a fitting memorial to him who 
formed it. Wolley had been for some time in the habit of 
sending yearly to the Museum at Norwich most of the skins 
