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Engineering College, Putney, while from 1844 to 1847 he was 
Assistant Secretary of the Geological Society, and edited its 
quarterly journal for a number of years. He was a Fellow 
of the Royal Society. Of his many published books and 
papers the undermentioned is the only one containing any- 
thing relating to ornithology. He died at his residence near 
Woodbridge, Suffolk, in May 1880. 
1862. [With Robert Gordon Latham.] The Channel Islands. London : 
1862. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxviii + pp. 604, maps, plans, dia- 
grams and 59 ill. 
Enumerates 198 species of birds at pp. 203-8. 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1865. 
Aplin (Oliver Vernon), nat. 1858 
Mr. Aplin, of Bloxham, Oxfordshire, a member of the 
B.O.U. since 1886, is best known as the author of The Birds 
of Oxfordshire (1889), and of several papers supplementing 
that work in the Zoologist. 
In 1892, at the instance of Dr. Sclater, he was sent, with 
the aid of a Royal Society grant, to investigate the Avifauna 
of the State of Uruguay, returning in 1893, the results of the 
expedition being incorporated in a paper on the “ Birds of 
Uruguay,” with introduction and notes by Dr. Sclater, in 
The Ibis for 1894. 
We are informed that his brother, Rev. Benjamin 
D’Oyley Aplin, contributed information on the south of 
Oxfordshire for the Birds of Oxfordshire , in addition to 
being a joint author of A List of Birds of the Banbury 
District. He was born August 3, 1855, and educated at 
Malvern College, and at St. John’s College, Oxford. 
His elder brother, Frederick Charles Aplin (1854-97), a 
member of the B.O.U., was born at Bodicote on March 
14, 1854, and in due course entered St. John’s College, 
Oxford, where he graduated B.A., eventually proceeding 
to B.C.L. He was called to the Bar at Lincoln’s Inn, 
but relinquished it in order to practise as a solicitor. In 
