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preparation of a more extensive work on the Birds of Cornwall; and we 
are happy to state that, the whole of his MS. notes for this work having 
been placed in our hands, steps were at once taken to secure its publication 
in a form calculated to benefit science and enhance the reputation of the 
author. Five sheets, or eighty pages, were revised by Mr. Rodd, the fifth 
sheet only a week before his death, and it is much to be regretted that he 
has not lived to see the completion of an undertaking in which he took so 
much interest. The work, however, will proceed, and its publication, by 
Messrs. Triibner and Co., may be shortly expected. 
In the county in which he resided Mr. Rodd was greatly esteemed and 
respected. ‘The third son of the Rev. Edward Rodd, D.D., he was born at 
St. Just in Roseland, of which parish his father was vicar, in March, 1810. 
Educated for the law, he was admitted to practice as a solicitor in ‘Trinity 
Term, 1832, and early in the following year went to reside at Penzance, 
where he entered into partnership with Mr. George Dennis John. At 
Mr. John’s decease, Mr. Rodd was joined by Mr. Darke, and, soon after the 
death of the latter, the firm became Messrs. Rodd and Cornish. About two 
years ago Mr. Rodd retired from the firm, resigning at the same time the 
office of Town Clerk of Penzance, to which he had been elected in 1847, 
and of Clerk to the Local Board, to which he was appointed in 1849, 
Penzance having been the second town in England to adopt the Public 
Health Act, 1848. Mr. Rodd at the same time resigned the Clerkship to 
the Penzance Board of Guardians, an office which he had held from the 
passing of the Poor Law Act. Both the Penzance Corporation and the 
Board of Guardians accepted his resignation with regret, and gave expression 
to their appreciation of long and faithful service. In addition to the offices 
above mentioned, Mr. Rodd was Superintendent Registrar, and, from 1844 
till the abolition of the office in 1867, Head Distributor of Stamps in 
Cornwall. Of the Penzance Choral Society he was one of the founders 
and warmest supporters, nothing but illness or absence from home keeping 
him away from the practices. By his death a vacancy is created in the 
Vice-Presidency of the Society, a position he had occupied from the first. 
Mr. Rodd also took a deep interest in St. Mary’s Sunday Schools, of which 
he was one of the oldest teachers, and but a few weeks before his death he 
presided at a New Year's entertainment given to the boys. 
The weleome guest in many a country house between the Land's End 
and the Tamar, Mr. Rodd took the liveliest concern in the welfare of the 
poor, to whom he was known to be a liberal friend. The fishermen, 
especially, will have cause to regret his decease, since he always had 
their interests at heart. By his death (says the Editor of ‘The Cornish 
Telegraph’), ‘Penzance has lost an adopted son whom she delighted to 
honour, as a man of unblemished character, urbane and courteous to the 
highest degree, and one whose greatest delight was in serving a friend, or 
