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words of his son, the Rev. J. C. Atkinson, "a good, practical 

 ornithologist, a keen observer, though without any scientific know- 

 ledge, and very much interested in anything connected with sport or 

 birds." Not a few notes contributed by him, are to be found in the 

 early numbers of the Zoologist. 



BAXTER, G. H., of Hutton Park, Brentwood, takes much 

 interest in birds, and has an interesting collection (p. 34), the 

 principal specimens in which are mentioned hereafter. 



BREE, Charles Robert, M.D. (1811-1886), was the 

 eldest son of the late Mr. John Bree, of Keswick, Cumberland, 

 by Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. John Bearcroft, and was born at 

 Ambleside, on the 4th of February, 181 1. He spent his early life 

 mostly in the Lake Country. He was educated for the medical 

 profession in York, during which time he lived in the Minster Yard, 

 and was present at the fire of the Cathedral in 1829. From York 

 he went to London, and was a pupil at the University College in 

 1829-30. At the end of his second year, he joined a party of 

 fellow-students and entered into the Polish service, where he 

 remained till Warsaw was taken by the Russians in 1831. After 

 spending a few months in Berlin, he returned to England, and 

 commenced to follow his profession as a general practitioner at 

 Bildeston, in Suffolk. In 1834, he removed to the neighbouring 

 town of Stowmarket, where he remained until 1858, in which year 

 he gave up practice and went to Edinburgh, where he studied for 

 one year, and then became M.D. of its University. He married, in 

 1845, Frances Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Sir Augustus 

 Henniker, Bart., who survives him. In the autumn of 1859, he was 

 elected physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital, and con- 

 tinued for twenty-two years senior physician to that institution. 

 During this period, he published — ist. The History of the Birds of 

 Europe^ not observed in the British Isles (Groombridge & Co.), which 

 remained for more than ten years the only English general work of 

 reference on the subject, and of which a second edition, containing 

 important additions, published by Bell and Sons, in five vols., has 

 been called for ; 2nd. Species not Transmutable, nor the Result of 

 Secondary Causes ; 3rd, Popular Illustratiotis of the Lozver Fo7-ms of 

 Life, which was reprinted from the Field ; 4th, An Exposition of the 

 Fallacies in the Hypothesis of Mr. Darwin (Longmans, Green & Co.) 

 Dr. Bree was a contributor from time to time to the Field and the 

 Zoologist, as well as also part editor, with the Rev. Mr. Morris, of the 



