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preparation of which he devoted many years. While at 
Cambridge he had contributed, in 1842, an Appendix on 
Botany and Ornithology to Potter’s Charnwood Forest , but 
most of his time for many subsequent years was devoted 
to the preparation and editing of works of a theological and 
scholarly nature. He also achieved some reputation as a 
botanist, and in his later years became interested in con- 
chology. He died at Cockfield, in Suffolk, March 12, 1889. 
1842. The Ornithology of Charnwood Forest. [In Potter’s History of 
Charnwood Forest , Appendix, pp. 65-70 and 73.] London : 
1842. 4to. 
1884-86. The Birds of Suffolk. ( Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of 
Archceology and Natural History, vol. v., Nos. iv. and v. 
MDCCCLXXXIV-VI.) 
1884-86. Catalogue of the Birds of Suffolk : with an Introduction and 
Bemarks on their Distribution. London : 1884-86. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 281, with 7 pi. and map. This is 
reprinted from Proc. Suff. Inst. Archceol. and Nat. Hist, in 
which it originally appeared (see above). 
Backhouse (James), nat. 1861 
Mr. James Backhouse comes of a family of naturalists, 
his father and grandfather, both bearing the name of James, 
having been noted botanists. James Backhouse the first 
was a nurseryman and was born in 1794, and died at York 
in 1869. He was notable as a Missionary Friend in the 
Colonies. His son, the father of the ornithologist, was 
born at York in 1825, dying there in 1890, He was a 
Fellow of the Linnean Society, and a contributor to the 
botanical journals of his day. 
The subject of the present sketch was born at West Bank, 
Holgate, York, on April 14, 1861, and was educated at the 
Friends’ Boys School, Bootham, York. He is a Fellow of 
the Linnean, Zoological, and Royal Horticultural Societies, 
and one of the Honorary Curators of Zoology to the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society, of which he is also a life member. 
In 1890 he published A Handbook of European Birds , 
and in 1896 a small work entitled Upper Teesdale, Past and 
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