Anglers' Calendar for July 



(Open Month, on all rivers United Kingdom, for Angling; Best 

 Sea-trout Angling Month throughout West of Ireland) 



i ISAAC CASAUBON, scholar ; and friend of Sir Henry Wotton and of 

 Izaak Walton who scratched initials (I.W. 1658) on Casaubon s 

 tomb in Westminster Abbey, died 1614. 



4 Rev. WILLIAM KIRBY, naturalist and -pisciculturist, died 1850. 



6 Sir HENRY RAEBURN, Scottish artist and ex-pert trout fisher, died 

 1823. 



12 HORACE SMITH, joint author of " Rejected Addresses" died 1849. 

 14 WILLIAM OLDYS, born 1696. 



1 8 Rev. GILBERT WHITE (of Selborne), naturalist and idyllic -prose writer 



on nature, born 1720. 

 ALEXANDER RUSSEL, editor of" 'The Scotsman" and angler, diedi%*]6. 



20 WILLIAM SCROPE, author of the much read book ''Days and Nights 



of Salmon Fishing," died 1852. 



21 MATT PRIOR, -poet, said to have been an angler, born 1664. 

 ROBERT BURNS, National -poet of Scotland, a trout fisher, died 1796. 



25 S. T. COLERIDGE, died 1834. 



27 THOMAS CAMPBELL, -poet and angler, born 1777. 



30 Dr. GEORGE JOHNSTON, naturalist, discoverer of the -pestilent weed 

 (^ l anacharis alsinastrum ") so fatal to stream angling, died 1855. 



MARK PATTISON, scholar and angler, died 1884. 



