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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[ANDERSON 
references to the birds of the Hebrides, principally taken 
from Martin Martin and other well-known writers, neither 
having been, so far as we can ascertain, ornithologists them- 
selves. Peter was, however, an enthusiastic botanist and 
George a geologist. The latter was also founder of and 
general secretary to the Northern Institution for the Pro- 
motion of Science and Literature. 
1834. Guide | to the | Highlands and Islands | of | Scotland, | including 
Orkney and Zetland, | descriptive of | Their Scenery, Statistics, 
Antiquities, and Natural History : | With Numerous Historical 
Notices. | By George Anderson, | . . . and Peter Anderson, 
[etc. 6 lines.] | London : | John Murray, Albemarle Street, 
MDCCCXXXIV. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 759, map. Appendix VI., 
“ Natural History of the Orkney and Zetland Islands,” does not 
appear in the later editions. 
Idem. 2nd edit. 1842. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. i-xii + pp. 17-744. Birds of 
Orkney at pp. 672-3. Birds of Shetland at pp. 706-7. 
Idem. 3rd edit. 1851. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 808, maps. Birds of Orkney 
at p. 717. Birds of Shetland at p. 749. 
Anderson (Joseph). See Low (George) 
Anderson (Thomas), 1805-79 
Of this author we know little except that he was a 
“ corresponding member ” of the Natural History Society 
of Glasgow and a friend of Kobert Gray, then secretary, 
whom he assisted in the preparation of the undernoted 
work (originally published in the Transactions of that 
Society). The authors state in their preface that they 
“ have traversed a large extent of both counties in quest of 
species, and have, for the last fifteen years, been almost 
daily adding to our observations from which the short notes 
on each of the birds have been selected.” 
Mrs. Gray informs us that Anderson was “ a friend of 
her husband, whose observations were incorporated in the 
Birds of Ayrshire and Wigtownshire. He never published 
any books or papers on his own account.” 
