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Dewar (George Albemarle Bertie), viv. 
Mr. Dewar, a journalist and author, is well known as 
the author of The Book of the Dry Fly , and many other works 
on sport and general literature. He edited with the Duke 
of Rutland (then Marquess of Granby) the “ Haddon Hall ” 
Library, and in 1913 became Literary Editor and Director 
of the Saturday Deview. He was born in Hampshire, being 
the youngest son of Capt. Dewar of Doles, and was educated 
at Oxford (B.A.). He resides at 34 Cheyne Court, Chelsea. 
1899. Wild Life in Hampshire Highlands. (“ Haddon Hall ” Library.) 
London : 1899. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. x + pp. 304, with 7 pi. 
Coloured figures of the Nightingale, Redstart, and Lesser 
White throat are given. 
1902. The Birds in Our Wood. Illustrated by Edward Neale. London : 
1902. 
Collation — 1 vol. imp. 8vo, pp. 142. (Pub. 7s. 6d.) 
1908. Life and Sport in Hampshire. London : 1908. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 286, with col. and other pi. (Pub. 
10s. 6d. net.) 
1911. An Open Air Diary. {Field, December 30, p. 1406.) 
Contains observations on London birds. 
Dickenson (John Horatio), ca . 1798 
This writer was a Fellow of the Linnean Society and 
of Worcester College, Oxford, of which University he was 
B.A. He contributed the zoology to the undernoted work, 
while other authors contributed the botany, mineralogy, etc., 
Stebbing Shaw ( nat . 1762, ob. 1802) being a purely historical 
writer. Yol. II. was never completed. 
1798[— 1801]. [“ Sketch of the Zoology of Staffordshire ” in] The | History 
and Antiquities | of | Staffordshire. | . . . By the Rev. Stebbing 
Shaw, B.D., E.A.S. | and fellow of Queen’s College, Cambridge. | 
Yol. 1 [II. pt. 1] | Containing . . . | London : . . . | m.dcc.xcviii 
[-mdccci]. 
The Zoology, chiefly comprising an annotated list of birds, is 
at pp. 92-6 of Yol. 1. 
