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supplied for the transactions of different scientific bodies. But 

 he is scarcely less celebrated among those who knew him, for 

 his thorough knowledge of British ornithology, than for his lib- 

 erality of feeling ; and many of the museums of his neighbor- 

 hood are indebted to him for valuable and rare donations. He 

 resides at Twizel House, Northumberland ; a situation well 

 adapted from its neighborhood to the sea, for observing and pro- 

 curing rare birds. He established, two years since, in conjunc- 

 tion with his brother-in-law. Sir WiUiam Jardine, Bart. — ^likewise 

 a zealous naturalist, — the " Magazine of Natural History ^''^ a 

 periodical work which has presented some valuable essays on the 

 subject. He is also editor of the " Library of Natural His- 

 tory.^^ 



In 1828, appeared the ^^ History of British Animals," by John 

 Fleming, D. D., minister of Flisk, Fifeshire, a synopsis, printed 

 in one thick octavo volume, chiefly a compilation from previous 

 writers.* 



In 1835, Rev. Leonard Jenyns of Swaffhaur Bulbeck, near 

 Cambridge, published a " Manual of British Verieb?'ate ani- 

 mals, or desa^iptions of all the animals belonging to the classes 

 Mammalia, Aves, Reptilia, Amphibia, and Pisces," &c. He 

 had previously published in a pamphlet form, a '' Systematic cat- 

 alogue," containing the ground work of this larger book. 



The materials are nearly all original ; on the subject of classi- 

 fication, no individual author has been rigidly adhered to ; al- 

 though he tends towards the opinion held by Mr. Mac Leay, of 

 the circularity of natural groups. He was much assisted by Mr. 

 Yarrell, as well as by Mr. Gray of the British museum, so that 

 he had every facility for producing correctness, and performing 

 the work in a good manner. Besides those species now found, 

 he enumerates all the extinct species. " The object of the au- 

 thor is to present naturalists with a manual in this department of 

 our Fauna, adapted to the existing state of our knowledge, and 

 such as shall be calculated to meet the wants of science in that 

 advanced age, to which it has attained since the publication of 

 former works of this nature. In furtherance of the end, !wo 



* I should desire to speak more particularly of this gentleman and his work, but 

 am unable to find any particulars concerning him ; and I have it not in my power 

 to meet with a copy of the book at present. It is, in part, superseded by the later 

 work of Jenyns. 



