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Fisher seems also to have been a collector, and his specimen 
of the so-called Paget’s Pochard, now in the possession of 
Mr. J. H. Gurney, was described in the Zoologist , pp. 1137-8, 
1845. He died in 1889. 
1843. Notes on Occurrence of Rare Birds near Great Yarmouth. ( Zoolo- 
gist. , pp. 180-83, fig.) 
1843-4. Note on Times of Departure of some Winter Birds of Passage from 
Yarmouth in 1843-4. (Op. cit ., 1843, pp. 248-9 ; 1844, p. 654.) 
1844. Notes on Arrival of some Winter Birds of Passage at Yarmouth in 
1843. (Op. cit., 1844, pp. 441-42.) 
1846. [With J. H. Gurney.] An Account of the Birds found in Norfolk. 
(Op. cit. pp. 1300-24, fig. ; pp. 1373-93, fig.) 
See under Gurney (J. H.). 
[With J. H. Gurney.] An Account | of the | Birds found in 
Norfolk, | including | notices of some of the rarer species | which 
have occurred in the adjoining counties ; | with | remarks on 
Migration, | and a table showing the number of the resident and | 
migratory species of each family. | By | John Henry Gurney | and 
| William Richard Fisher. | (From the Zoologist.) | London : | 
Printed by E. Newman, 9 Devonshire Street, Bishopsgate Street. 
| 1846. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 4 un. + pp. 34, cuts in text. 
A separate reprint of the last-mentioned Zoologist articles. 
1847-9. [With J. H. Gurney.] Ornithological and other Observations, 
and Occurrences in Norfolk for the months of December 1846 to 
October 1848. 16 parts. (Zoologist, v., 1847, pp. 1601, 1691-2, 
1701-2, 1769-70, 1785, 1820-21, 1955-6 ; vi., 1848, pp. 1965-6, 
2017-18, 2027, 2071, 2134, 2183-5, 2291-2; vii., 1849, pp. 
2353-4.) 
Fleming (Rev. John), 1785-1857 
Fleming, who was born at Kirkroads, Bathgate, 
Linlithgow, on January 10, 1785, entered Holy orders and 
became Minister of the Scots Kirk at Bressay, Shetland, in 
1808, and afterwards at Flisk, Fifeshire, from 1810 to 1834. 
In the latter year he became Professor of Natural Philosophy 
at Aberdeen University, and in 1845 he was appointed Pro- 
fessor of Natural Science at New College, Edinburgh. He died 
at Edinburgh, November 18, 1857. He was a Fellow of the 
Royal Society of Edinburgh, D.D. of St. Andrews, and a 
member of the Wernerian Society. His principal work was 
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