MR SEEBOHM'S DISCOVERY 



THE death of Mr Henry Seebohm removes from 

 the list of English ornithologists the most original 

 figure since the days of Macgillivray. He came of 

 an old Quaker family, was born at Bradford, and 

 from childhood was an enthusiastic observer and 

 collector. He became a large steel manufacturer 

 at Sheffield, and while carrying on his business 

 visited Russia, Siberia, Greece, Asia Minor, Norway, 

 Denmark, Heligoland, Germany, Austria, the Engadine, 

 Holland, and France, to see for himself the English 

 migratory birds in their foreign homes. He held 

 that this kind of original observation was the work 

 in which English naturalists excel those of the 

 Continent ; but he wrote much and well, and the 

 result was the best History of British Birds and 

 their Eggs ever written, a connected theory of 

 the geographical distribution of English birds, and 

 accounts of his visits to the valleys of the Petchora 

 and the Yenisei,* which rank among the best de- 



* Siberia in Europe, and Siberia in Asia. 

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