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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Idem. 3rd edit. Not seen. 
Idem. 4th edit. London (Craddock & Joy) : 1815. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii + pp. 196. 
Aikin (John, M.D.), 1747-1822 
Dr. Aikin, son of John Aikin (1713-80), a scholar and 
theological tutor, was born at Kib worth in 1747, and removed 
thence with his father to W arrington, where he received the 
earlier part of his education. He studied medicine at 
Edinburgh and surgery in London, and received the degree 
of M.D. at the University of Leyden. After residing for a 
few years at Chester and at W arrington, he settled in medical 
practice at Great Yarmouth in 1784, in which year his 
Calendar of Nature was first published, it being dedicated to 
his sister, Mrs. Barbauld. His advocacy of Dissent, however, 
lost him many of his patients, and in 1792 he moved to 
Broad Street Buildings in London, where he found more 
congenial society. A few years later, however, a stroke of 
paralysis caused his retirement from practice in favour of his 
son, and he then went to reside at Stoke Newington, where 
he devoted himself to literature and where he died in 1822. 
His daughter Lucy became a well-known authoress. He is 
referred to in the concluding paragraph of Gilbert White’s 
Natural History of Selborne , and was the editor of his 
Naturalist's Calendar (1795). 
1784. The Calendar of Nature : designed for the instruction and enter- 
tainment of young persons. 1784. 
The first edition. Not seen. 
1785. The | Calendar | of * | Nature: | designed for the | instruction 
and entertainment | of | young persons. | The Second Edition. 
| - — | London, | Printed for Joseph Johnson, at No. 72, | St. 
Paul’s Church-yard. | mdcclxxxv. | [Price One Shilling.] 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. vii + pp. 82 + 1 p. table. 
Contains numerous references to birds. 
Idem. 3rd, 4th and 5th edits. Not seen. 
Idem. 6th edit. London : 1801. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 72. 
Idem. A new edit. lb. 1806. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 72. 
