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Local Biology, followed hy remarks on the Faunas of Bath and 

 Somerset. By the Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A., F.L.S., 

 F.G.S., &c., President. Read November \ith, 1872. 



Local Natural History, rightly studied, is a very different thing 

 in these days from what it was formerly. If we look to the older 

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* Ireland's Natural History, by Gerard Boate, 16o2. f Britannia 



Baconica, or the Natural Earities of every Sbii-e of England, Scotland, and 

 Wales, by S. Cbildrey, 1662. % Pinax llerum Naturalium Britannicarum, 



by Chiistopher Merrett, 1667. § Scotia Illustrata, 168i. || Synopsis 



of the Natural History of Great Britain and Ireland, by John Berkeuhout, 

 1789. f British Zoology, by Thomas Pennant, 1776. 



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