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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Crossman (Alan Fairfax), viv. 
Mr. Crossman, who was Recorder in Ornithology for 
Herts from 1896 to 1901, was elected F.L.S. in 1896, and 
resigned in 1913. He is now in Australia. 
He contributed the sections Birds, Mammalia and Reptilia 
and Batrachia to the Victoria County History of Herts. 
1896-1901. Notes on Birds observed in Hertfordshire during the years 
1895-1900, 7 papers. {Trans. Herts Soc. vol. 9, pp. 73-84, 
148-62 ; vol. 10, pp. 33-43, 84-102, 136-42, 180-84 ; vol. 11, pp 
47-52.) 
1902. Birds. [In Victoria County History of Hertfordshire , vol. i. pp. 193- 
216.] London : 1902. 4to. 
[Crosth waite (D.).] See Anonymous (1826) 
Crotch (William Duppa), ji. 1851-61 
We have discovered practically nothing concerning this 
author, in spite of enquiries made through the kindness of 
Mr. Charles Tite, of the Somersetshire Archaeological and 
Nat. Hist. Society, except that it is believed that he “ may- 
have been the son of the Rev. T. Crotch, who in 1840 was 
Head Master of the old Taunton Grammar School,” where 
the son is also thought by Mr. Tite to have been Head Master. 
In 1861 he was living at Uphill House, Weston-super-Mare. 
A reference to the life in the Diet. Nat. Biog. of William 
Crotch (1775-1847) the composer, celebrated as “ the musical 
child,” shows that his son, the Rev. W. R. Crotch, was 
“ master ” of the Grammar School, Taunton, and that the 
musician had been staying with him for some time previous 
to his death, which occurred suddenly at dinner on December 
29, 1847. Mr. Tite writes us that the Rev. W. R. Crotch was 
at Taunton College in 1848, while W. D. Crotch was there in 
1851, the inference being that the latter was a brother (or 
cousin?) of the former and succeeded him at the College. 
The Rev. W. R. Crotch left Taunton after 1850, as in 1853 
he was residing at Stoke Court, some miles away. He had 
two notes on the plumage of Montagu’s Harrier and on the 
