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Dr. H. Gadow on the Ornithological 
and other ornithological collections belonging to the Uni¬ 
versity, or such as the University may still acquire. 
The Strickland Collection, consisting of skins and a 
library, is to be kept separate. The remainder, which we 
may call the General Collection, comprises skins, stuffed 
specimens, skeletons and other anatomical preparations, 
eggs, and a library. 
For forty-one years, until a few days before his death, 
Alfred Newton, Professor of Zoology and Comparative 
Anatomy, was the life and soul of this department, not 
only on account of his unrivalled knowledge of things 
ornithological, but through his never-failing help by world¬ 
wide correspondence, his advice and—his criticisms. On 
his death he left all his Collections and his Library to the 
University *. 
It is known to but a few people how he was always ready 
with his purse to secure more specimens or even whole 
collections which the Museunr’s scanty funds would have 
* The ‘Cambridge University Reporter’ of June 15, 1907, contains 
the following extract from the will of the late Professor Newton :— 
“ I give and bequeath to the Chancellor Masters and Scholars of the 
University of Cambridge my Natural History Collections and Library 
together with the Cabinets Cases and Apparatus thereto belonging 
including all my Copyrights Books Pictures Prints Drawings Letters 
and Papers relating to Natural History .... to be kept for the purposes 
of the said University and not for the purpose of sale, and to be attached, 
so far as is convenient, to the Department of Zoology. . . . 
“ I also give and bequeath to the University the sum of One Thousand 
Pounds upon trust to invest the same and to apply the annual income 
thereof to the keeping up and adding to the said Library .... 
“In a ‘ Memorandum to my Executors’ concerning the bequest [which 
has been accepted as it stands, by Grace of the Senate, June 18th, 1907] 
occurs the following passage: ‘For my own convenience it has been my 
practice to make marginal notes and cross references in my own books, 
and I believe that some of these may prove to be of considerable 
assistance to anyone who after me may use these copies.’ ” 
The principal objects received by the University under this bequest 
were the Wolley Collection of Bird’s-eggs as augmented by Newton, and 
the Newton Library including all his papers and MSS., both of which 
are ; described below. 
