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Library), and as co-editor, with the Earl of Suffolk and 
Berkshire and Hedley Peek, of the Encyclopaedia of Sport 
(2 vols. 4to, 1897-98). He is a Bellow of the Royal 
Geographical Society. 
1898. A Sketch of the Natural History (Vertebrates) of the British Islands. 
London : 1898. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xiv + pp. 498, map and front. 
(Pub. 6s.) Birds at pp. 95-296. 
Aikin (Arthur), 1773-1854 
Arthur Aikin, the son of Dr. John Aikin, author of The 
Calendar of Nature, was born at Warrington, May 19, 1773, 
and educated at Palgrave in Suffolk by the Rev. Rochemont 
Barbauld, his uncle by marriage. He was originally designed 
for the Unitarian ministry, but became a chemist by pro- 
fession, and in due course Secretary of the Society of Arts, 
Treasurer of the Chemical Society (1841), and a Fellow of 
the Linnean Society. He was early acquainted with the 
celebrated Dr. Priestley, and was an ardent mineralogist 
and one of the founders of the Geological Society. He 
published manuals of Mineralogy and Chemistry, and his 
Tour through North Wales (1797) was pronounced by 
Stevenson to be an “ admirable specimen of a mineralogical 
and geological Tour.” He died, unmarried, at his brother’s 
house in Bloomsbury Square, April 15, 1854. 
1797. Journal of a Tour | through | North Wales | and | Part of Shrop- 
shire ; | with observations in | Mineralogy, | and other branches 
of | Natural History. | By Arthur Aikin. | London : | Printed 
for J. Johnson, No. 72, St. Paul’s | Church-Yard. | 1797. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 231 + p. 1 un. and pp. 7 
of Index un., 1 pi. 
Birds at pp. 23, 47, 50, 51, 100, 166, etc. 
1798. The | Natural History | of | the Year; | Being an Enlargement of | 
Dr. Aikin’s | Calendar of Nature. | By Arthur Aikin. | London : 
| Printed for J. Johnson, in St. Paul’s Church | Yard. | 1798. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii (p. vi alone numbered) -fpp. 195 
+ 1 p. explan, of pi. and 1 pi. 
Numerous passing references to birds. 
Idem. 2nd edit. London : 1799. 
Collation — 1 vol. 16mo, pp. vi + pp. 99. 
