Sir Walter Buller returned to New Zealand for a few years in the early nineties, living at Wellington, his country residence being near Levin, on the shores of the beautiful Lake Papaitonga—"the beauty of the south," as it has been called by the Maoris from time immemorial.
In addition to numerous papers on ornithological subjects contributed to the "Transactions of the New Zealand Institute," extending over a period of many years, Sir Walter wrote, in 1888, "Illustrations on Darwinism."
He returned to England in 1890, and the degree of Doctor of Science was conferred upon him by the University of Cambridge in the following year.
In 1906 he produced a "Supplement to the Birds of New Zealand," in two volumes, correcting the proof-sheets of this last great work during the illness which shortly afterwards terminated a life of remarkable strenuousness.
He died at Fleet, Hampshire, England, on the 19th July, 1906, where he was buried. A memorial service was afterwards held in St. Paul's Cathedral, London, in the Chapel of the Order of St. Michael and St. George, and a tablet is there placed to his memory in the Knights' stalls.
