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in London and becoming Physician to the King. He did 
not visit Ireland to prepare his Natural History , material 
being sent him by his brother Arnold, and by some of the 
English over there, and the work itself so little relates to 
ornithology that no further mention of the author need be 
made here. He died in January 1649-50. 
1652. Irelands | Naturall | History. | ... Written by Gerard Boate, late 
Doctor of | Phvsick to the State in Ireland. | And now published 
| By Samuell Hartlib, Esq ; | for the Common Good of Ireland, 
and more | especially, for the benefit of the Adventurers | and 
Planters therein. | Imprinted at London for John Wright at the | 
Kings Head in the Old Bayley. 1652. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 16 un. + pp. 186 + pp. 6 un. 
Contains no ornithology, but has been sometimes cited as 
doing so from the title alone. 
Idem. 2nd edit. Dublin: 1726. 1 vol. 4to, pp. iv + pp. 213, 
with fold. pi. 
Contains an account of “ Barnacles Geese,” p. 192. 
Idem. 3rd edit. 1 vol. 4to, pp. iv + pp. 213. Dublin : 1755. 
Boethius (Hector), 1465 (?)-1536 
Boethius or Boece belonged to the family of Bois or 
Boyis of Panbride in Angus, the name Boyce being apparently 
a retranslation of the Latin form, Boethius, of that name. 
His father is thought to have been Alexander Boyis, a 
burgess of Dundee, about the end of the fifteenth century. 
From Dundee, where he received his early education, young 
Boece passed to Paris, then the most frequented University 
in Europe, and after finishing his education became a pro- 
fessor in the College of Montaign there. On the founding 
of King’s College, Aberdeen, however, by his friend William 
Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, Boece joined him, and later 
became Principal of the College. His first book was the 
Lives of the Bishops of Mortlach and Aberdeen (Paris, 1522) ; 
and the History and Chronicles of Scotland , his only other 
printed work, was also issued at Paris in Latin in 1526, the 
first translation by Bellenden being published at Edinburgh 
in 1536. In W. Harrison’s translation (1577) occurs the 
well-known account of the supposed generation of the “ Claikes 
