Ebook: Travels of a Naturalist in Northern Europe. Norway, 1871. Archangel, 1872. Petchora, 1875. Volume I

London: T.Fisher Unwin, 1905. - 259 p.
In the following narratives of three visits paid to the northern parts of Europe, I have made no attempt to rewrite or clothe in new phraseology my original journals.
Therefore, any claim they may have upon those of the public who may be disposed to read them is their simple journalistic form and continuity of events — just as they occurred; just as they appeared to me ; and just as I wrote them down at the close of each day.
At the times my companions and I visited these countries, they were considered as being amongst the remoter regions of the earth, unless perhaps Norway be excepted ; for even Wolley and other British collectors had not penetrated so far eastwards as the White Sea, nor collected steadily on the Delta of the Dvina.
For many years I had studied the collecting experiences of the late Mr. John Wolley, and, as early as 1865, I had possessed treasures of his finding, which had been placed in the market, through Mr. Baker at Cambridge; and a friend and myself secured the first selections from that mine of oological wealth.
I had also treasured up in memory and in notebooks, etc., many sentences of Wolley's writings, regarding the discoveries he had made, and about those which might come to he made by some younger than himself East of the White Sea. Amoncest those, he mentioned the eggs of the Little Stint and Grey Plover. For years, I gathered up all the information I could lay hands upon, which bore directly or indirectly upon these more distant hunting-grounds. I dreamed of them by night and even betimes by day.
In 1871, but not till then, my first preliminary canter was made in the charming companionship of my friend, the late Edward R. Alston, to Norway. Then more dreams were dreamed, and even future plans plotted out, and in the same way more accumulations of preliminary materials were made.