NOTICES OF ESSEX ORNITHOLOGISTS. 25 



is no copy in the British Museum. Several extracts from it appear 

 in the following pages. W. D. King also assisted in establishing the 

 Sudbury Museum, and took a lively interest in it until the date of its 

 dispersion in 1872. He was throughout life a member of the Society 

 of Friends. He was brother-in-law to Mr. Jonathan Grubb (p. 22) 

 and first cousin to Edward and Henry Doubleday, of Epping (p. 13), 

 all ardent Essex naturalists. He died at Sudbury on the 15th of 

 November, 1870, aged sixty-nine years. 



LAYER, Henry, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., F.L.S., F.S.A., &c., 

 of Colchester, was born at Paglesham, and was educated at Had- 

 leigh, Essex, and St. Thomas' Hospital. He came to Colchester 

 to practise in 1857, and is now senior surgeon to the Essex and 

 Colchester Hospital. In November, 1885-86, he filled the office of 

 Mayor of Colchester. He is the author of the Mammals of Essex 

 (43. ii. 157) and of a paper on the Land and Fresh- Water Shells 

 of the Colchester District (43. ii. 88), and has kindly given much 

 valuable help during the preparation of this work. 



LEGGE, Capt. W. Vincent, R.A., is an excellent or- 

 nithologist. He is the author of a History of the Birds of Ceylon 

 (Lond. 4to, 1237 pp.), a magnificent work with coloured plates. He 

 is a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies, a member of 

 the British Ornithologists' Union and other scientific bodies. In 

 1865 and 1866 he was stationed at Shoebury, where he made many 

 observations on birds, which are described in three most interesting 

 papers contributed by him to the Zoologist, entitled " Notes on the 

 Nesting of Birds in the Flat Lands of Essex" (23. 9836), "Ornitho- 

 logical Notes from South-east Essex" (34. 89), and " Oological Notes 

 from South-east Essex" (34. 599). 



LISTER, Arthur, J. P., F.L.S., &c., of Leytonstone, takes 

 a considerable interest in Natural History, and has aided to some 

 extent in connection with this work. 



MACLEAN, Allan, M.D. (i 796-1869), of Colchester, "was 

 born at Sudbury, where his father, Sir Lachlan Maclean, was in 

 practice as a physician. At an early age he was sent to the Gram- 

 mar School at Bury St. Edmunds, passing from thence to Cambridge, 

 where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began prac- 

 tice in Colchester, where he resided for half a century, and he held 

 the appointment of physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital 



