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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[BELL 
advocate, and was born September 12 , 1833 . He was for 
many years tenant of the extensive sheep-farms of Tanlawhill 
(Eskdalemuir) and Billholm (Westerkirk), and he succeeded 
his nephew as proprietor of Crurie and Castle O’er (Eskdale- 
muir) in 1876 . He appears to have been a keen local 
ornithologist, and was a friend and correspondent of Frank 
Buckland. He died May 25 , 1909 . 
1901. Some Bird Notes from Eskdale (Trans. Dumfriess. and Gall. N.H. 
and Antiq. Soc., April 17, 1901). 
1905. My Strange Pets and other Memories of Country Life. London : 
1905. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. vii + pp. 308. (Pub. 6s. net.) 
Includes “ Pare Birds in Eskdale,” pp. 140-52, and other notes 
on birds. 
Bell (Thomas), 1792-1880 
This eminent British zoologist was born at Poole, Dorset, 
on October 18 , 1792 , being the only son of Thomas Bell, 
surgeon. In 1813 he entered as a student at Guy’s and 
St. Thomas’s Hospitals, London, became a member of the 
Boyal College of Surgeons in 1815 , and a Fellow in 1844 . 
In 1817 he was appointed dental surgeon to Guy’s, which 
post he held until 1861 . 
He was early attracted to natural history, and for some 
years he lectured on comparative anatomy at Guy’s, whilst 
in 1836 he was appointed Professor of Zoology at King’s 
College, London, but in this capacity is said to have made no 
mark. He was elected F.B.S. in 1828 , and was one of the 
originators of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society, 
and for eleven years one of its Vice-Presidents. He was 
Secretary of the Boyal Society from 1848 to 1853 , President 
of the Bay Society from 1843 to 1859 , and President of the 
Linnean Society from 1853 to 1861 , and to him is said to be 
due the location of the latter society at Burlington House. 
At the age of nearly seventy, he retired from active life to 
The Wakes, Selborne, which in 1842 he had purchased from 
Gilbert White’s grand-niece, and there he collected White relics 
and mementoes, and received with pleasure those admirers of 
