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Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii un. + pp. 360, with 80 figs. Part 
I., pp. 1-167 ; British birds. 
1899. British Birds for Cages and Aviaries. London : 1899. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vO; pp. 232, ill. 
Greenwood (James), ob. 1737 
James Greenwood, the author of an Essay towards a 
Practical English Grammar , 1711 (published in an abridged 
form as the Royal English Grammar ), was, as he informs us 
below, the proprietor of a boarding school at Woodford in 
Essex ; he became afterwards surmaster of St. Paul’s School 
from 1721 till the year of his death, 1737. (Gf. Diet. Nat. 
Biog.) 
1713. The | London Vocabulary; | English and Latin : | Put into a new 
Method proper to ac- j quaint the Learner with Things ; as well | 
as Pure Latin Words. | Adorn’d with Twenty Six Pictures. | Eor 
the Use of Schools. | The Third Edition. | By James Greenwood; 
| Author of the English Grammar, and now | keeps a | Boarding 
School at Woodford in Essex. | [Woodcut.] London, [ Printed 
for A. Bettesworth; at the Red Lyon on | London-Bridge. 1713. 
Price Is. 
Collation — 1 vol. 16mO; 1 1. advt. + title + pp. vi + pp. 124. 
Birds at pp. 24-27; with cuts. Includes lists of singing birds, 
birds which live about or in watery places, ravenous birds, 
birds dwelling about the house, birds that haunt the fields and 
woods, etc. 
Idem. 4th to 13th edits, not seen; 14th edit., 1763; 15th 
edit., 1767 ; 16th edit., 1771 ; 17th and 18th edit, not seen ; 19th 
edit., 1785 ; 20th edit., 1791 ; 21st edit, not seen ; 22nd edit., 
1802 ; 23rd edit., 1807 ; 24th and 25th edits, not seen ; 26th 
edit., 1817. 
These editions do not differ much, the 19th and succeeding ones 
comprising pp. viii + pp. 123 in 16mo, with birds at pp. 24-6. 
Grieve (Symington), nat. 1849 
Mr. Symington Grieve, the historian of the Great Auk, 
was born at Edinburgh, March 31, 1849, and educated in 
that city. He still resides in Edinburgh, and is chairman 
and also director of several companies. Mr. Grieve was 
President of the Edinburgh Naturalists’ Field Club from 
1885-88, and in 1889 made a voyage round the world, some 
