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member of the clerical staff of Gurney's Bank, afterwards Barclays', 

 Which he had served at Lynn, Fakenham, and, chiefly, at Norwich. 

 A voracious reader and a born naturalist, he used his leisure hours to 

 such good effect that by the time he had reached middle life his 

 reputation as an ornithologist was already considerable. He edited 

 the third volume of Stevenson's 1 Birds of Norfolk,' compiling it from 

 matter which Stevenson had himself left, and adding to it copious 

 notes. He brought out also a new edition of Lubbock's 1 Fauna of 



Norfolk,' to which he made various additions. His work on ' Seals 

 and Whales of the British Seas ' is everywhere recognized as an able 

 and authoritative treatment of a somewhat neglected subject. It 

 would be too long a task to follow Mr. Southwell in all his literary 

 enterprises. Suffice it to say that he wrote with skill and freedom, 

 and touched a great variety of natural history subjects. Perhaps the 

 best of his more fragmentary work was done in connection with the 

 Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, whose secretary he was for 

 several years, and whose president he was in 1894. The work by 



