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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[edmondston 
Edmondston (Arthur), 1776-1841 
This author belonged to the well-known Shetland family 
of this name, described in the Rev. Biot Edmondston’ s 
and Jessie Saxby’s Home of a Naturalist. Arthur’s father, 
Laurence Edmondston, of Lerwick, is described as having 
been for a long series of years, during the latter half of the 
eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries, 
the only doctor in the Shetland Isles. Another son, also 
named Laurence (1795-1879), was the “ Naturalist ” referred 
to above, and the author of several ornithological papers in 
the Memoirs of the Wernerian Society and the Edinburgh 
Philosophical Journal , and is credited with adding the 
Snowy Owl and the Glaucous, Iceland and Ivory Gulls to 
the British list. His son Thomas, a notable botanist, was 
naturalist to the expedition of H.M.S. Herald , and met with 
an untimely death in Ecuador in 1846. He was the author 
of three papers in the Zoologist for 1844 on the birds of 
Shetland. A sister of Laurence the younger married Saxby, 
the author of The Birds of Shetland. 
1809. A | View | of the | Ancient and Present State | of the | Zetland 
Islands ; | including their | Civil, Political and Natural History ; 
| Antiquities ; | and | an account of their Agriculture, Fisheries, 
Commerce, | and the state of Society and Manners | by Arthur 
Edmondston, M.D. | In Two Volumes. | Vol. I [II.] | Edinburgh : 
| [etc. 3 lines] 1809. 
Collation — 2 vols. 8vo. Vol. I., pp. xiv + pp. 364. Vol. II., 
pp. vii + pp. 345, map. Birds at pp. 226-91 of Vol. II. 
Edmondston (Eliza), ca. 1856 
This lady, who was the wife of Dr. Laurence Edmondston 
the Shetland naturalist, published the following little work. 
She also wrote The Young Shetlander , being the life and 
letters of her son, Thomas Edmondston, Naturalist to the 
Herald Expedition. 
1856. Sketches and Tales of the Shetland Islands. Edinburgh : 1856. 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap 8vo, pp. vii + pp. 256, with map. 
Ch. vi. (The Ornithologist), pp. 57-78, and ch. xii. (The Fowler), 
pp. 140-52, deal with the birds 
