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but cannot be more particularly noticed here. He died 

 in 1865. 



The only other work dealing with Mammals, that may 

 be noticed as treating exclusively of British types, is the 

 ' History of British Quadrupeds,' by Professor Thomas Bell, 

 at one time professor of zoology in King's College, 

 London. This excellent work appeared in 1836, and is 

 one of the admirable series of illustrated works on British 

 zoology issued, and still being issued, by the well-known 

 scientific publisher, Van Voorst. To this same series, 

 Professor Bell contributed two other equally excellent 

 treatises namely, the 'History of British Reptiles' 

 (1829), and the ' History of British Stalk-eyed Crustacea 7 



(1853). 



Ornithology has ever been a favourite subject with 

 naturalists, and the number of names which occur to any 

 one who has occasion to look into the zoological literature 

 of this period, as belonging to eminent ornithologists, is 

 noteworthy. Yarrell, Macgillivray, Swainson, Eyton, 

 Gould, Selby, Jardine, and Waterton are names which 

 have the pleasant ring of familiarity to the ears of all 

 naturalists, and in some cases to extra-zoological circles. 

 Such works as Eyton's 'Monograph of the Anatidae' (1838), 

 or Selby's 'Illustrations of British Ornithology' (1821-34), 

 are doubtless little known except to specialists ; but every 

 one who has dabbled in natural history is acquainted with 

 Gould's magnificent monographs, if only on account of 

 their inimitable illustrations. There must also be very 

 few, even of those who are not zoologically inclined, who 

 do not know something of Waterton, not through anything 

 that he did in ornithology, for in truth he was not a 



