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1909. Guide to Holy Island, formerly Lindisfarne, and its associations, 
descriptive and historical. 2nd edit. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : 
1909. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. 119, with ill. 
Birds of Holy Island and of the Barnes at pp. 68-76, with ill. 
1912. The Book of Migratory Birds met with on Holy Island and the 
Northumbrian Coast, to which are added descriptive accounts 
of Wild Bowling on the Mud Blats, with Notes on the General 
Natural History of this District. Profusely illustrated with 
photographs. London (John Ouseley, Ltd.) : 1912. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 258. (Pub. 5s. net.) 
Hamilton (Edward), 1815-1903 
Dr. Edward Hamilton, M.D., who died at his residence, 20 
Kedcliffe Gardens, S. Kensington, August 3 , 1903 , was born 
in 1815 , educated at Harrow and University College, London, 
and was one of the first to practise homoeopathy in London, 
being a pupil and friend of Dr. F. F. Quin. His principal 
publication was the Flora Homoeopathica, in two volumes 
with 68 coloured plates and text, issued in 1852 - 53 . He 
was attached to field sports all his life, was twenty years a 
Vice-President of the Zoological Society, and was elected a 
Fellow of the Linnean Society so far back as January 16 , 1844 . 
He also took a warm interest in artistic matters, his 
catalogue of the engraved works of Sir Joshua Keynolds 
being of standard value. Other publications of his were 
The Wild Cat of Europe, 1896 ; The Wild Cat of Scotland, 
1907 ; and he edited his brother’s Records of Sport in Southern 
India . . . between 1844 and 1870, in 1892 . 
1878. The Eooks and Rookeries of London, Past and Present. ( Zooloqist , 
pp. 193-9.) 
1879. The Birds of London : Past and Present, Resident and Casual. 
(Op. cit. pp. 273-91.) 
1889. The Wild Birds of London. ( Murray’s Mag., May.) 
1890. The Riverside Naturalist. Notes on the various forms of Life met 
with either in, on, or by the Water, or in its immediate vicinity. 
London : 1890. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvii + errata slip + pp. 401, with 
numerous text ill. Birds at pp. 21-165. 
