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with whom he had remained in constant touch ever 
since their first meeting at Cambridge in 1848. The two 
comrades started from Hull late in May, and, owing to most 
unseasonable weather, missed the steamer connexion along 
the Norwegian coast, and so were taken on to Christiania, 
whence they proceeded overland in a great hurry to 
Trondhjem, just in time to catch the coasting-steamer that 
was to take them on to Hammerfest. 
When, after an interval of ten days, the roiling ‘Gyller’ 
at length arrived in port, two Englishmen, Scott and Torr, 
were on board, and a merry party of four rounded the 
Nordkyn together, and ultimately reached Vadso in the 
Varanger Fjord, where the hero of Lapland ornithology, 
John Wolley, shortly made his appearance, fresh from a 
fortnight’s excursion up the Pasvig, in Russian Finland, and 
this, too, during the Crimean War. The party of three 
ornithologists, being now complete, lost no time in making 
their way up the Varanger Fjord, and thence to the valley 
of the Tana, and so round by the Tana Fjord to Vadso 
again. There is no need for any ornithological details, as 
these may be gathered from the writings of Wolley and 
Newton, and also from the pages of ‘ Hewitson.’ The same 
remark applies to the still more prolific region of Central 
Lapland, at Muoniovara, for instance, which Wolley had 
made his home. The ‘Ootheca Wolley ana* should especially 
be consulted, for there each egg has its history. 
The return journey commenced towards the middle of 
July, when the three friends committed themselves once more 
to the rolling ‘ Gyller,’ and were landed at a place on the 
Lyngen Fjord, whence they made their way across the water¬ 
shed into Swedish Lapland, and so in boats down the Muonio 
River to Muoniovara itself. 
The homeward journey began on the 8th of September, 
and the party reached Hull early in October, by way of 
Haparanda, Stockholm, and Gothenburg. 
In the spring of 1856 John Wolley induced Simpson 
to join him in an expedition to the Isle of Oland, in the 
Baltic, in quest of the Little Gull, supposed to breed there, 
