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142 . A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
near the British Museum,” and later of Museum Street, 
W.C. 
[ ?] Label list of British Birds and Eggs, including accidental visitors. 
. . . Ipswich. N.D. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, 23 pp. 
Corbin (George Bentley), 1841-1914 
George Bentley Corbin was born at Ringwood on February 
8, 1841, and was educated at tbe National Schools, which 
he quitted at an early age in order to follow the trade of 
his father, a cabinet-maker and upholsterer. Anxious to 
continue his education, he became a pupil at the Evening 
Classes in connection with the Hants and Wilts Adult Educa- 
tional Society, and his latent gifts rapidly developed. 
As a boy he indulged an early love for birds, flowers, 
and insects. The New Forest and the Valley of the Avon 
were his favourite haunts, with almost every nook and 
cranny of which he became familiar. During his youthful 
collecting days, he conducted the Amateur Naturalist , a 
MS. magazine, which circulated amongst subscribers through- 
out the British Isles. He contributed notes to Science 
Gossip and other periodicals, and in 1862 an article on 
“ The Macro - lepidoptera of Ringwood ” to Newman's 
Zoologist, from which time, for upwards of forty years, he 
was a frequent contributor (chiefly, however, of short notes) 
to the Zoologist and Entomologist. One of his most important 
records in the former journal was “ On the occurrence of 
the Needle-tailed Swift for the second time in England ” 
(1880). The bird was, at his death, still in his possession, 
and will eventually be added to the National Collection at 
South Kensington. 
He assisted the Rev. J. E. Kelsall, with others, in the 
compilation of a briefly annotated list of the Birds of Hamp- 
shire and the Isle of Wight, published in the Proe. Hants Field 
Club, 1890. This led up to the more complete list, with 
specific remarks, which he wrote for Dent’s County Guide 
to Hampshire and the Isle of Wight (1900). He also assisted 
