The new international encyclopaedia . and Burke suc-ceeded in rcacliing tidal water on the FlindersRiver. They (lien turned back, but on the returnjourney both died of starvation near CoopersCreek, and only oiu^ man succeeded in gettingback to the settlements. The bodies of the twoleaders were recovered and were given a publicfuner:il in 1863. A national memorial to themwas erected at Melbourne in front of the Parlia-ment House. Consult: Wills Successful Ex-ploration Through the Interior of .lustialia, con-sisting of Wills recovered journal edited bv hisfather (London, 1863) ; anil Howitt, His
The new international encyclopaedia . and Burke suc-ceeded in rcacliing tidal water on the FlindersRiver. They (lien turned back, but on the returnjourney both died of starvation near CoopersCreek, and only oiu^ man succeeded in gettingback to the settlements. The bodies of the twoleaders were recovered and were given a publicfuner:il in 1863. A national memorial to themwas erected at Melbourne in front of the Parlia-ment House. Consult: Wills Successful Ex-ploration Through the Interior of .lustialia, con-sisting of Wills recovered journal edited bv hisfather (London, 1863) ; anil Howitt, History ofDiscorery in .Australia (London, 1865). WILLS COFFEE HOUSE, A famous resortof the wits during (Jurcn .nes reign, situatedon the corner of I?ow and liussell Streets, Lon-don. Drydens corner in it is celi>bratcd in liter-ary history, and it was also the resort of Wycher-ley and Waller, who lived on Bow Street, near was so called from the first name of its orig-inal jiroprietor and was succeedeil by Hutlons. ?.VILLOW. 1. POLLARDED WILLOWS. 2. WHiTc WILLOW (Sallx alba). 3. BARK OF WHITE WILLOW. WILLUGHBY. 543 WILMINGTON. WILLUGHBY, wlllu-bl, Fkancis (1035-72).An Kiijjlish nuluialist, l)oni at iliddlcton, inVWirwicksliire. lie graduated from Trinity Col-lege, Cambridge, in KifjO. He became much in-terested in natural history, and about l(i(>2 heand hia former teaeher, .John Kay ((].v.), ]danneda work on natural history, tlie botany to be writ-ten by Ray and the zoillogy by Willughby. Thetwo traveled on Uie Continent and in Englandcollecting material, but before the work wascompleted Willughby died. Ray later publishedsouu of the results of Willuglibys study, first inLatin in KiTC, and then in English in 1078, underthe title of The Orniiholoyy of Francis Wiltugh-by. In the work there was for the first timea rational system of classifying birds, which hasbeen asserted to be the basis of the Linna-anclassification. In 1080 Ray published also theresults of Willughbys
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