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1906. Historical and Scientific Survey of York and District. Edited by 
George A. Auden. York : 1906. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo. pp. xvii + pp. 365, plates and map. 
(Brit. Assoc. Handbook.) 
Aves by Grabham at pp. 318-31. 
1907. Birds. [In Victoria History of Co. of Yorks, i. pp. 323-50] 4to. 
London : 1907. 
1909. The Colony of Little Terns at Spurn Point, Yorks. (British Birds, 
ii. pp. 317-21, 1 pi. and 4 photos.) 
Graham (Henry Davenport), 1825-72 
For the publication of Graham’s work the ornithological 
world is indebted to Dr. J. A. Harvie-Brown, who obtained 
the materials from the family of the author after Robert 
Gray’s death in 1887 , and was instrumental in securing their 
publication as a volume of the Vertebrate Fauna of Scotland. 
The work in the main consists of numerous communications 
addressed by Graham to Robert Gray from 1851 to the time 
of the former’s death in 1872 , these being partly prepared for 
publication by Gray before his own death intervened. 
From the autobiography prefixed to Graham’s book we 
find that he was born in London in August 1825 , his father 
at the time residing in Upper Gower Street and being in 
business in Lincoln’s Inn. The family went abroad in 1830 
and travelled through France and Italy, and on their return 
to England resided for half the year at Clapham Common 
and the remaining half at Eastbourne, young Graham going 
to school at the former place. A longing for the sea led to 
his appointment as a volunteer (or cadet) to a brig of war at 
the early age of fourteen, and he saw considerable service. 
On his retirement from the Navy he paid his first visit to the 
island of Iona in 1848 — a visit which extended to several 
years, and resulted firstly in the publication of the Antiquities 
of Iona ( 1850 ), and ultimately in the materials being gathered 
for the ornithological work. 
He was an artist of great ability, and left a collection of 
170 drawings of the birds of Iona, and a collection of 250 
sporting sketches, in addition to his archaeological drawings. 
