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Harting (James Edmund), nat. 1841 
Mr. Harting was bom in London, April 29, 1841, being 
the eldest son of Janies Vincent Harting (of Lincoln’s Inn 
Fields, Harting in the County of Sussex, and Kingsbury, 
Middlesex) and Alexine Milne Fotheringham, daughter of 
Colonel It. H. Fotheringham, B.E. He was educated at 
Downside College and London University, and in 1868 
married the eldest daughter of J. M. Lynch of Whiteleas, 
Co. Kildare, J.P. In his younger days he travelled ex- 
tensively on the Continent, and spent some time in Paris 
and Leyden studying at the Museums. One of his latest 
expeditions, in 1893, was to Thessaly, with Sir Herbert 
Maxwell, commissioned by the Board of Agriculture to report 
on the Vole plague. In January 1871 he became Natural 
History Editor of the Field , a post which he still holds, while 
for twenty years (1877 to 1896) he edited the Zoologist with 
conspicuous success. He was for many years Assistant 
Secretary and Librarian to the Linnean Society of London, 
during which time he occupied an official residence at 
Burlington House, but since his retirement in May 1902 he 
has resided at Weybridge. In earlier years, as indicated 
above, he lived at Kingsbury, Middlesex, and devoted much 
attention to the natural history of that district and of the 
county generally. This led to the publication of his earliest 
work, The Birds of Middlesex , which, with Stevenson’s Birds 
of Norfolk , the first volume of which was published the same 
year (1866), inaugurated the long series of county avifaunas 
which have since appeared. In addition to his numerous 
ornithological works undernoted, he has written Rambles in 
Search of Shells (1876), Ostriches and Ostrich Farming (1877), 
British Animals extinct within Historic Times (1880), a 
series of six papers on Rare or Little-known Limicolce in 
the Ibis for 1869-83, and several other works ; also the 
article “ Falconry ” in Chambers’s Encyclopcedia, Hints on 
the Management of Hawks , second edition, 1898, and Biblio- 
graphia Accipitraria — A Catalogue of Books Ancient and 
