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of Books about Everything , Encyclopaedias , Beeton's Annuals , 
etc., published first under bis own name and afterwards 
acquired by Ward, Lock & Co. He published the first edition 
of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and made the voyage to America to 
present Mrs. Stowe with a voluntary payment of £500. He 
died at Sudbrook Park, Richmond, Surrey, June 6, 1877, 
aged 46. It is, of course, uncertain whether the under- 
mentioned work was compiled under his direction or written 
for him, but in any case we have no need to consider him an 
ornithological writer. 
*[1862.] Beeton’s Book of Birds, showing how to rear and manage them 
in sickness and health. London : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 252, with 6 col. pi. 
Comprises British birds chiefly, with a few foreign species. 
Belany (James Cockburn), yL 1841-78 
Belany, the author of the undermentioned treatise, as we 
learn from a MS. note in the late Mr. Tegetmeier’s copy of 
the work, was an inhabitant of Cannon Street Road, St. 
George’s East, and there practised as a surgeon. From thence 
he went to North Sunderland and there married, shortly 
after which he came and resided in King Street, Stepney. 
He was tried in 1844 at the Old Bailey on a serious charge, 
but was acquitted. Mr. Tegetmeier added the information 
that he was still practising Falconry in 1878, and was at the 
Alexandra Palace with the hawks of the Falconry Club 
under the alias of Daniel Crowberry. 
1841. A | Treatise | upon | Falconry. | In two parts. | By | James 
Cockburn Belany. | (Seven lines of quotations from Sporting 
Magazine and Washington Irving.) | Berwick-upon-Tweed: — 
Printed for the Author. | 1841. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xii + pp. 277 + Terms in Falconry, 
6 pp. 
Bell (Richard), 1833-1909 
We are indebted to Mr. H. S. Gladstone ( Birds of Dumfries- 
shire, 1910) for our information about this Scottish ornitho- 
logist, who, it appears, was the son of George Graham Bell, 
