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1896. Hawking Black Game. (Field, April 11, pp. 570-71.) 
1901. Reminiscences of a Falconer. With 7 photographic plates and 6 
portraits. London (John 0. Nimmo) : 1901. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xiv + pp. 188, 13 pi. (Pub. 12s. 6d. 
net.) 
Fisher (William Richard), 1819 (?)— 1889 
William Richard Fisher was an intermittent resident at 
Great Yarmouth between the years 1843 - 53 , and it was 
during this period that he collaborated with John Henry 
Gurney (Senr.) in the Account of the Birds of Norfolk , pub- 
lished by them in the Zoologist and reprinted in 1846 . In 
1853 he migrated to London, which henceforth became his 
permanent abode, and there he was resident, or had chambers, 
at various dates, at 5 Verulam Buildings ( 1846 ), 43 Gloucester 
Place ( 1853 ), and 2 New Square, being a barrister by pro- 
fession. The two first addresses are taken from A.L.S. 
letters from Wm. Yarrell to W. R. Fisher (Westfield Place 
Library), from which source we also learn that Fisher was 
married, was a personal friend of Yarrell’ s, and was proposed 
by that ornithologist as a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 
December 1846 . Fisher was an accomplished artist, and 
illustrated the specimens of eggs (or the majority of them) 
figured in Morris’s Nests and Eggs of British Birds ( 1853 ), 
drawing his examples from specimens in the cabinets of 
William Yarrell, Dr. Henry Pitman, J. C. Heysham, and 
H. F. Walter. The following letter from William Yarrell to 
Fisher on this subject is perhaps of sufficient interest to 
quote : 
Ryder Street, St. James, 
12 July 1851. 
My dear Sir — I should like to have a few minutes conversation with 
you on the subject of your letter about eggs, and as business will take 
me to the vicinity of your locale on Tuesday next between half-past eleven 
and twelve o’clock, I will call upon you. You are welcome to lend Mr. 
Morris any or all drawings of eggs obtained through me as from yourself 
alone. The only restriction I would now impose would be that my name 
should not be mentioned or referred to, and my reason for this I will tell 
you when we meet. Yours truly, 
(Signed) Wm. Yarrell. 
W. R. Fisher, Esq. 
