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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
87 
and friend of Sir Joseph Banks, is said to have instilled in 
him an early love of natural history. He was sent to school 
first at Eastergate, near Chichester, afterwards at Leith Hill, 
proceeding to Peterhonse, Cambridge, in 1835 , taking his 
B.A. in 1839 and his M.A. a few years later. He married in 
1840 , and in 1842 settled at Brookhill, the house at Cowfold, 
Sussex, where he resided for the rest of his life, and formed 
his museum of British birds and mammals. He generally 
spent the winter at North House, Brighton, and after his 
death, which took place in October 1898 , his collection of 
British mammals was presented to the Museum of that town 
by his nephew, Mr. J. Eardley Hall, of Barrow Hill, while 
in the same year ( 1901 ) his collection of birds was purchased, 
partly by subscription and partly by town funds, and went to 
augment the Booth Museum in the Dyke Road. Borrer was 
a member of the B.O.U. and a very old contributor to the 
Zoologist , the first communication we have noted being in 
the volume for 1845 (p. 868 ), but most of his notes and. papers 
in that journal are short ones. 
1891. The Birds of Sussex. London : 1891. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xviii + pp. 395, list of subscribers, 
map and 6 col. pi. 
Botanista (Theophilus), ca. 1757 
The undermentioned book is dedicated to the “ Guardians, 
Preceptors and Governesses ” of Great Britain, to whom its 
“ Philosophical Amusements ” are offered “ as a proper 
New-Years-Gift 55 for their “ Young Wards and Pupils.” 
1757. Rural Beauties ; | or, the | Natural History | of the four following 
| Western Counties, | viz. | Cornwall, | Devonshire, | Dorset- 
shire, and | Somersetshire. | . . . By | Theophilus Botanista, 
M.D. | . . . London : | . . . mdcclvii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, front. + pp. 4 un. +pp. xxxiv + pp. 
314. 
Pp. 18, 19, 102, 108, 202, 213 contain ornithological matter of 
no originality or interest. 
