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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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degree of M.A. in 1719 , and was ordained next year, becoming 
Rector of Ludgvan, near Penzance, in 1722 , from which time 
he began to devote himself to the antiquarian and natural 
history researches which were to transmit his name to 
posterity. He married, in 1724 , Anne Smith, daughter of 
the Rector of Illogan and Camborne. In 1751 he was elected 
a Fellow of the Royal Society, and soon after 1758 presented 
to the Ashmolean Museum the whole of his collections, a list 
of which — together with some letters — is in the Museum. 
His H.C.L. Oxon, conferred in 1766 , appears to have been in 
recognition of this gift. He died at Ludgvan on August 31 , 
1772 . 
1756. Observations | on the | Ancient and Present State | of the | Islands 
of Scilly, | and their importance to the | Trade of Great Britain. | 
In a Letter to the Reverend | Charles Lyttleton, LL.D., | Dean of 
Exeter and F.R.S. by William Borlase. | Oxford | [etc. 5 lines] | 
MDCCLVI. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. iv un. +pp. 140, 4 folding pi. 
Birds at pp. 80-81. An unimportant passage. 
1758. The | Natural History | of | Cornwall. | The | Air, Climate, Waters, 
Rivers, Lakes, Sea and Tides ; | Of the Stones, Semimetals, 
Metals, Tin, and the Manner of Mining ; | The Constitution of the 
Stannaries ; | Iron, Copper, Silver, Lead, and Gold, found in 
Cornwall. | Vegetables, Rare Birds, Fishes, Shells, Reptiles, and 
Quadrupeds : | Of the Inhabitants, | Their' Manners, Customs, 
Plays or Interludes, Exercises, and Festivals ; | the Cornish Lan- 
guage, Trade, Tenures, and Arts. | Illustrated with a new Sheet 
Map of the County, and Twenty-Eight Folio | Copper-Plates from 
Original Drawings taken on the spot. | By William Borlase, A.M. 
F.R.S. | Rector of Ludgvan, and Author of the Antiquities of 
Cornwall. | ... Natale solum dulcedine captos | Ducit. | Oxford, 
| Printed for the Author ; by W. Jackson : | Sold by W. 
Sandby, at the Ship in Fleet-Street London ; and the Booksellers 
of Oxford. | mdcclviii. 
Collation — 1 vol. fol., pp. 2 un. +pp. xix + pp. 326 + pp. 2, 
errata and directions for placing the plates. Map and xxviii pi. 
Birds treated of at pp. 242-8, the principal matter being 
derived from Carew. 
Borrer (William), 1814-98 
This well-known Sussex ornithologist was born at Barrow 
Hill, Henfield, January 18 , 1814 . His father, a botanist 
