[CHRISTY 
128 A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
runner of a long series of County Natural Histories by 
various authors. 5 ? 
In addition he published during the Protectorate two 
small astrological works and a paper on the flux and reflux 
of the sea in the Philosophical Transactions for 1670 (No. 64, 
pp. 2061-8). 
1661. Britannia Baconica : | Or, The Natural | Earities | of | England, 
Scotland, & Wales. | According as they are to be found in every | 
Shire. | Historically related, according to the Pre- | cepts of the 
Lord Bacon ; Methodically dige- | sted ; and the Causes of many 
of them | Philosophically attempted. | With | Observations upon 
them, and Deductions | from them, whereby divers Secrets in 
Nature | are discovered, and some things hitherto | reckoned 
Prodigies, are fain to confess | the cause whence they proceed. | 
Usefull for all ingenious men of what Profession or | Quality 
soever. | By J. Childrey. | Bes semper aliquid apportat novi. 
Terent. | London, Printed for the Author, and are to | be sold by 
H. E. at the sign of the Grey-hound in | St. Pauls Church-yard, 
1661. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 29 Title, Dedication, and Preface 
+ pp. 184. 
Christy (Robert Miller), not . 1861 
Mr. Miller Christy, the well-known Essex naturalist, of 
Broom Wood Lodge, Chignell St. James, near Chelmsford, 
is a partner in the firm of Hayman, Christy and Lilly, Ltd., 
printers, etc., of Faningdon Road. He is a Fellow of the 
Linnean Society and a prominent member of the Essex 
Field Club. He published under the auspices of the latter 
his well-known Birds of Essex , a thorough and efficient 
contribution to the county bird histories, as well as A History 
of the Mineral Waters and Medicinal Spas of the County of 
Essex (1885), the latter in collaboration with May Thresh. 
He also edited for the Hakluyt Society in 1894 The Voyage 
of Capt. Luke Foxe . . . and Capt. Thomas J ames in Search 
of a North West Passage , 1631-32, and has done other work 
of a similar nature. He edited Durrant’s Handbook of Essex 
(1887), which only contains a paragraph on zoology at 
p. 13, and in the same year issued a volume on the Trade 
