EDMONDS] 
BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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His collection of mounted and cased British birds was 
formed somewhat on the lines of Booth’s collection at 
Brighton. It was offered first to the Liverpool Museum, 
but as they wished to uncase the specimens the offer was 
withdrawn, and it was presented to the Waterloo and Seaforth 
Urban District Council as a Museum attached to its Public 
Library. Colonel Echalaz wrote an account of the birds 
which is chiefly compiled from other authors, but contains his 
original narratives of the procuring of many of the specimens 
in the Scottish islands and elsewhere, and a life of the author. 
The late Mr. Henry Scherren assisted him in preparing the 
MS. for press. 
[1909.] Waterloo Museum, Liverpool. Complete history of the Echalaz 
Collection. Croydon (Printed by Roffey & Clark) : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 325, with port, and 24 pi. 
Edmonds (Richard), 1801-86 
Richard Edmonds was born at Penzance on September 
18, 1801, and died at Plymouth on March 12, 1886. He 
was educated at Penzance Grammar School, and afterwards 
at Helston, articled as a solicitor to his father in 1818, 
admitted 1823, in practice at Penzance 1825+ at Redruth 
1836, and afterwards at Plymouth. He wrote on many 
subjects, but paid particular attention to “ extraordinary 
agitations of the sea and earthquake shocks,” of which 
he published accounts in the Edinburgh New Philosophical 
Journal , The British Association Reports , and other learned 
proceedings. (Cf. Boase, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis , and obituary 
notice, Athenaeum , April 3, 1886.) Although he is included 
in this work on account of the book below noticed, he 
appears to have been no ornithologist, there being only a 
short account of the chough therein at pp. 230-31. 
1862. The Land’s End District : its Antiquities, Natural History, Natural 
Phenomena and Scenery, etc. London and Penzance : 1862. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. iv un. + pp. 266 + Index 4 pp., with 
map, 6 pi. and woodcuts. 
