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publication were intended to be republished in book form 
had not Beckwith’s death put an end to them. 
He died at Radbrook House, near Shrewsbury, to which 
he had removed in 1889 , on July 1, 1892 , leaving a consider- 
able collection of the rarer birds of the county, which is still 
in the possession of his family. He was buried at Eaton 
Constantine. For further biographical particulars vide 
Shrewsbury Chronicle , July 1892 . 
1878. A Guide to the Botany, Ornithology and Geology of Shrewsbury 
and its Vicinity. Edited by W. Phillips, F.L.S., Shrewsbury : 
Bunny and Davies (late Sandford) : 1878. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 65. 
Pp. 27-36 contain a “ List of Birds found near Shrewsbury.” 
The Preface is signed William E. Beckwith. 
[1879.] Birds of Shropshire, by William E. Beckwith, Eaton Constantine. 
Beprinted from the Transactions of the Archaeological and 
Natural History Society. [Vol. II. part iii.] Only twenty-five 
copies printed. Shrewsbury : Adnitt & Naunton, The Square. 
Oswestry : Woodall & Venables, n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 31. 
Originally appeared in Trans. Shrops. Arch, and N.H. Soc. 
vol. ii. pt. iii., pp. 365-95. [1879.] 
Note. — To the above was added with similar title page 3 pp. 
describing 6 new species, n.d. 
1885- 86. Notes on Shropshire Birds. (Field, Dec. 19, 1885 ; Jan. 2, 1886.) 
Folio. 
1886- 93. List of the Birds of Shropshire. (Trans. Shrops. Arch, and 
N.H. Soc. x. and xi. and ser. 2 to 5.) 
Idem. Reprinted for the Author (?). 
[1893.] Notes on Shropshire Birds. (Op. cit. vol. ? pp. 97-112 and 
129-46.) 
Beddard (Frank Evers), nat. 1858 
Mr. F. E. Beddard, M.A., F.R.S., is perhaps best known 
as Prosector and Davis Lecturer to the Zoological Society 
of London. His principal works on vertebrate zoology are 
Animal Colouration (8vo, 1892 ), Text-book of Zoogeography 
(8vo, 1895 ), Structure and Classification of Birds (8vo, 1898 ), 
Book of Whales (8vo, 1900 ). He edited for some years the 
Zoological Record. 
