NOTICES OF ESSEX ORNITHOLOGISTS. 13 



been a very good observer and a skilled taxidermist. In later life 



he returned to Norfolk, where he died. The late Mr. Henry 



Stevenson has published a brief, but enthusiastic, obituary notice of 

 him (34. 3775). 



DOUBLEDAY, Edward (181 1— 1849), '^^'^s the younger 

 and only brother of Henry Doubleday (q.v.), and was born at 

 Epping. Like his brother Henry, he seems early to have taken up 

 the study of Natural History, for in 1832, when only just of age, he 

 published a paper on "Stygia" in the Magazine of Natural History, 

 and in the following year, in conjunction with his friend, Edward 

 Newman, he contributed an account of an " Entomological Ex- 

 cursion in North Wales" to the Entomological Magazine. In 1835 

 he visited the United States, where he remained two years, returning 

 with large and valuable entomological collections, which were pre- 

 sented to the British and other Museums. He laboured hard to 

 obtain the appointment of naturalist to the ill-fated Niger Expedition, 

 but was, fortunately, unsuccessful. He afterwards accepted a post at 

 the British Museum, where he had charge of the Entomological 

 Collections, which he brought to a state of great perfection. This 

 appointment he held until his death, which took place at his house in 

 Harrington Square, on December 14, 1849, at which time he was 

 secretary to the Entomological Society. His contributions to science 

 were almost wholly entomological. Of the 29 papers enumerated as 

 by him in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers., all, with 

 one exception, have entomological titles, though one, on the 

 "Entomology of the Epping District" (15), treats also of its 

 ornithology. 



DOUBLEDAY, Henry* (1808— 1875), was born on 

 July I, 1808 (not 1809, as has been stated) at Epping, where his 

 father, Benjamin Doubleday, one of the principal tradesmen in the 

 town, had long carried on a general grocery, hardware, and provision 

 business. He was elder and only brother to Edward Doubleday 

 {q.v). Both the brothers in after life became distinguished as natural- 

 ists, though their tastes in this direction do not seem to have been 

 inherited from their parents. Their keen interest in natural science 

 was probably aroused by their surroundings during boyhood, the 

 ancient forests of Epping and Hainault being then in close proximity 

 to the little town. 



* The following information is partly copied from a biographical notice which I contributed to 

 the Imperial Dictionary of National Biografihy. 



