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Garden. At the Restoration he was continued in his office. 
He joined the Royal Society in 1662 , being one of the first 
elected Fellows, and in January 1676 he became a Fellow 
of the College of Physicians. Between 1660 and 1692 he 
published a large number of works, the most notable of which 
was entitled Chorea Gigantum ( 1663 ), a treatise intended to 
prove that Stonehenge was erected by the Danes and used 
as a royal coronation place. He resided for some time at 
Nantwich, but returned eventually to London and died there 
in April 1707 . (Cf. article by Mr. Mullens in British Birds , 
August 1911 .) 
To Charleton belongs the credit of being the first English 
writer to append illustrations to a list of birds. He included 
foreign as well as British birds, giving, however, the English 
names wherever he could, and in addition to being a keen 
collector when he had the opportunity, he paid much atten- 
tion to the birds in the Royal aviaries at St. James’s Park 
and in the museum of the Royal Society. He informs us in 
the Preface to his Onomasticon Zoicon that “ If you were to 
look around the Royal £ vivarium ’ you might imagine that 
you beheld the animals in pairs about to enter Noah’s Ark 
a second time.” Charleton seems to have had a good 
knowledge of the works of Gesner, Belon, and Aldrovandus, 
and he also mentions Turner, Johnston, Willughby, and 
Merrett. He describes those specimens of which he was 
uncertain at some length, and records how the Hawfinch, 
which he figures and which he shot, was preserved in the 
museum of the Royal Society, while the Bee-eater was 
engraved from a skin brought from Italy and shown to 
Charleton by Sir Thomas Carew. The figures of the birds 
are very well executed, that of the Hoopoe, which was 
killed by a friend of his within ten miles of London, being 
especially good. His list of birds occupies altogether fifty- 
six pages and contains much of interest. He recounts among 
other incidents how he in 1664 , while on a visit to Norfolk, 
shot a merganser, “ which very rarely visits England,” and 
that as a youth he killed many avocets on the banks of the 
