A biographical sketch of Col George Montagu 



(1755—1815). 



English Field Zoologist 

 by Bruce F. Cummings, Zoolog. Depart., British Museum. 



CONTENTS. 



1. Col. Montagu, the man so far as he is known. 



2. The facts of his life. 



3. The NaturaHst. 



4. His Work: 



(a) JVIammals. 



(b) Birds. 



(c) Fishes. 



(d) Molluscs and Worms. 



(e) Crustacea. 



(f) Echinoderms. 



(g) Sponges. 



COL. MONTAGU. The Man so far as he is known. 



So little is known about Col. Montagu, the well-known 

 English ornithologist and marine zoologist, that it seems well 

 to set forth in order such information concerning his life and 

 work as I have lately been able to collect. It is not a difficult 

 matter to write a life of Montagu because the material for a bio- 

 graphical memoir is scanty, being for the most part contained 

 in an article by William Cunnington in the Wiltshire Magazine 

 for 1857. Moreover Montagu was not a personality requiring 

 any subtle pyschological analysis; there are no questions con- 

 cerning him, hotly debated by critics or enthusiasts, — we have 

 never to decide precisely how much more than a liar or a vaga- 

 bond he was — as the biographer of Rousseau has to do, no^ 



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