CLARKE] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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— | By | James Clarke, Land-Surveyor. | — | [Quot. 2 lines.] 
| London: | Printed for the Author [etc. 4 lines] | mdcclxxxvii. 
Collation — 1 vol. fol. pp. xlii + pp. 193, with folding plans. 
The Appendix, pp. 189-93, contains the Natural History, the 
Birds at pp. 189-90. 
Clarke (W B ),fl. 1836 
This author, who describes himself as an architect, in 
his Introduction states : “ I have derived the Natural History 
of Hayling and its Environs, with but few additions, from 
a work entitled The Hundred of Bosmere .” [See under 
Longcroft (C. J.).] 
1836. The | Guide to Hayling ; | embellished with wood engravings, 
from sketches | By W. B. Clarke, | architect. | [Illustration] 
Published by Alfred Miller, | at the | Royal Victoria Reading 
Rooms, Hayling. | 1836. | The Woodcuts engraved by J. Jackson. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 6 un. +pp. 60. Plan and numerous 
P i. 
Birds treated of at pp. 39-49, with 5 pi. 
Clarke (William Eagle), nat. 1853 
Mr. Eagle Clarke, the well-known Keeper of the Natural 
History Department, Royal Scottish Museum, Edinburgh, 
was born at Leeds, March 16, 1853, his father having been 
Mr. William Clarke, solicitor, of that city. He was educated 
at the Grammar School and at Yorkshire College, Leeds. He 
commenced life as a civil engineer and surveyor, but later 
took up natural history as a profession, having been all 
his life keenly interested in it ; he entered Leeds Museum 
as Curator in 1884, changing to Edinburgh Museum as Senior 
Assistant in the Natural History Department in 1888, and 
becoming Keeper in 1906. He was elected a member of the 
British Association Committee on Bird Migration in 1884, 
and was jointly responsible for the preparation of the final 
five reports of that Committee. He is a Fellow of the Royal 
Society of Edinburgh, the Linnean Society of London and 
other societies, and was President of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union in 1905 and Vice-President of the Royal Physical 
Society of Edinburgh from 1905 to 1907. His earlier 
