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Excerpt from Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-on-Tyne, Vol. 11: Being Papers Read at the Meetings of the Natural History Society of Northumberland, Durham, and Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, and the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, 1890-94
When quite a young man John thought it no trouble or fatigue to start from home at three o'clock in the morning, walk to the seaside and back, after a storm at sea or during the seasons of the migrations of birds, to observe the forms and habits of those which he was sure to find there; and being an excellent shot, he was enabled readily to secure specimens for his museum and for study at home. By degrees, and through the encouragement and indulgence of his mother and sisters, their house became a real museum; his treasures and those of his brother Albany not only filled the single room which was at first devoted to their collections, but over?owed into almost every other apartment of the house.
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