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Collections of the University of Cambridge. 
the apparent exceptions which seem to prevent safe generali¬ 
zations- Some of the reasons why, in his later years, he devoted so 
much painstaking labour to the 1 Ootheca were rather sentimental: 
the memory of his friend Wolley, and the delight it gave him 
to go through his notes, taken when travelling in Lapland, Ice¬ 
land, and Spitsbergen, more especially Lapland, and thus to live 
again through old times when he studied Nature in the field, 
because Newton was essentially, at heart, a Field Naturalist, and 
a very good one indeed. 
III. The Wilmot-Russell Collection , made by J. P. Wilmot, left to and 
augmented by his friend Sir S. L. Russell, whose widow left it 
to the University. It is properly arranged and catalogued, and 
contains about 2005 eggs of 325 European species. 
IV. The T. JE. Buckley Collection ; containing about 1780 eggs of 
European species, properly arranged and catalogued. 
D. —The Newton Library. 
There are some 57 Journals and Periodicals, recent and ancient, 
in the Newton Library, comprising j ust 1001 volumes. 
Through the generosity of their owner a sum of money was left 
to keep up at least the more important Journals (besides such as 
are taken in by the Department of Zoology) and to purchase special 
ornithological works which may appear. 
Besides these Periodicals there are 
195 folio volumes, 
897 quarto. 
3133 octavo. 
169 of small size. 
These 4400 volumes may be sorted roughly into 
1800 strictly ornithological. 
462 volumes of voyages and travels. 
226 dealing with North America. 
129 „ „ Central and South America. 
167 „ „ Arctic countries. 
184 „ „ Asia. 
189 „ „ Australasia. 
141 „ „ Africa. 
The rest, about 1100 in number, relate to Europe, or are miscel¬ 
laneous— e. g. Text-books, General Philosophical works, Biographies, 
Dictionaries, &c., &c. 
Further, there are more than 8000 u pamphlets,” mostly orni¬ 
thological, now in process of being sorted, or being bound up. 
Lastly, several dozen volumes of bound-up letters, received during 
a lifelong correspondence on every imaginable subject, from the 
reputed laying of some egg to the founding of the B. O. U. 
