516 Recent Wiltshire Boohs, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 



Biography, and an article in Joum. of Conchology, July, 1908, by E. W. 

 Swanton. Mr. Cummings has accordingly undertaken to give a further 

 account of " this painstaking and practical field zoologist, who helped 

 to lay the foundations of the Natural History of our country." He 

 divides his article into four sections : (1) The Man so far as he is known ; 

 (2) The facts of his life ; (3) The Naturalist ; (4) His Work, on Mammals, 

 Birds, Fishes, Molluscs and Worms, Crustacea, Echinoderms, Sponges. 

 He concludes with a bibliographical list of Montagu's writings, 

 amounting in all to eighteen items. Sections 1 and 2 are very lightly 

 passed over and no new facts seem to have come to light. As a 

 naturalist his eminence " depended upon his acute powers of observation 

 and the perspicuous manner in which he regarded the facts which came 

 under his observations. He excels as a describer." Among mammals 

 his chief work was the discovery and description of three species of 

 British Bats, but his fame as a naturalist rests chiefly on his Ornitho- 

 logical Dictionary published in 1802. His chief discoveries and 

 identifications amongst birds, fishes, mollusca, Crustacea, <fcc., are shortly 

 mentioned. His most important work, perhaps, was done on the S. 

 Devon coast after he had left Wiltshire, among the beasts of the shore 

 and the sea. In his Testacea Britannica he enumerated nearly four 

 hundred and seventy species, of which one hundred had not been 

 described before, as British. 



The Cathedral Close of Salisbury and some of 



its Houses. I. & II. A series of beautiful photographs with 

 some slight letterpress account of the various buildings illustrated, in 

 Country Life, Aug. 2nd, pp. 160—170, and Aug. 9th, 1913, pp. 194—203. 

 The North Gate; Cathedral from the S.W. ; The Palace, Entrance 

 Front, Bishop Poore's Hall, The Chapel, The Staircase ; The Deanery, 

 from the Garden ; The North Canonry Garden (2), Front of House ; 

 Archdeacon Lear's House ; Mrs. Jacob's House, Front and Library ; 

 The Matron's College; Mompesson House, Front, Staircase .(2), Front 

 with Matron's College ; St. Anne's Gate ; The King's House, Front and 

 Back ; Canon's House in N. W. Corner of Close, Front and Hall ; The 

 Wardrobe or Bishop's Storehouse, Front and Hall ; Cathedral from the 

 Kiver. All these illustrations are admirable, and a good many of them 

 are views of buildings or interiors not illustrated elsewhere. 



SheldonManor, Wiltshire, the Residence of Captain 



F.Bailey. Country Life, Nov. 8th, 1913, pp. 638-645. The Porch, 

 The Front from the S.E., The Way In, Within the Forecourt, Gate 

 Piers and Buttresses, The Dining Room, Hall with Dog Gate at foot 

 of Stairs.Within the Porch, The Paved Garden, House from the South, 

 A Bedroom, The Staircase, and Ground-Floor Plan. All these are 

 admirable photographs of this interesting old house, a farmhouse until 

 Captain Bailey in 1911 brought it once more back to the condition of a 

 gentleman's residence. Happily the outside required and has received 

 very little alteration, but inside little was left but the good staircase 

 of the early 17th century and its dog gates. The panelling and stone 



