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Bladen (William Wells), nat. 1847 
Mr. Wells Bladen, of Stone, Staffs, Past President and 
Honorary Secretary of the North Staffs Field Club, was born 
at Wolverhampton, May 9, 1847, and educated under C. M. 
Osmond, of Richmond Terrace School, Shelton, Stoke-on- 
Trent. His publications are limited to various pamphlets 
and papers. 
1896. List of Birds in whose Nest the Egg of the Cuckoo has been found. 
Stoke-on-Trent : 1896. 8vo. Not seen. 
The Cuckoo and its Foster-Parents. Being a Portion of the 
Annual Address delivered to the members of the N. Staffs Nat. 
Field Club and Antiq. Soc. (Keprinted from their Trans., March 
1896, pp. 1-19.) Stoke-on-Trent : 1896. 8vo. 
1899. [Translated by.] What is the reason of the great variations in 
Cuckoos’ Eggs ? By E. Bey. ( Zoologist , pp. 176-8.) 
1906-12. Bird Notes (1903-5, 1906, 1907-8, and 1909-12) chiefly taken 
at Stone. 11 parts. (Rep. N. Staffs F.C., 1906, pp. 53-65 ; 
1907, pp. 7.3-78 ; 1909, pp. 83-95 ; 1910, pp. 74-83 ; 1912, pp. 
94-102.) 
B[lagrave] (J[osephJ, Gent.), 1610-79 
Blagrave, an astrologer, lived at Swallowfield, near 
Reading. He was the author of Ephemerides with Buies for 
Husbandry (1658), and other works. ( Vide Diet. Nat. Biog. 
and Allibone, vol. i.). 
1685. The | Epitomie | of the | Art of Husbandry. | Comprizing all Neces- 
sary Di | rections for the Improvement of it, viz. ... To which 
is annexed by way of Appendix, a New | Method of Planting 
Fruit-Trees, and Improving of an | Orchard : with Directions 
for taking, ordering, Teach- | ing, and curing of Singing Birds, 
and other useful Ad- | ditions. | By J. B., Gent. | London, Printed 
for Benjamin Billingsley, | at the sign of the Printing Press, in 
the Piazza of the | Boyal Exchange, over against Popes-Head- 
Alley, | in Cornhill. 1685. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. ix un. + pp. 246 -fpp. 136 New 
Additions, and 8 pp. Index, with 2 pi. 
Note. — Singing Birds are dealt with on pp. 61-136 of “ New 
Additions.” 
