haeyie-beown] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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1849. The Sea-Side Book ; | being | An Introduction to | The Natural 
History of the British Coasts. | by | W. IT. Harvey, M.D., 
M.B.I.A. | [etc. 2 lines] | [vignette] | London: | John Van Voorst, 
Paternoster Row. | m.dccc.xlix. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii-f pp. 247, numerous text cuts. 
Sea birds at pp. 216-30. 
Idem. New edition, 1 vol. 12mo, 1849, pp. viii + pp. 256. 
Idem. 3rd edit. 1854. 4th edit. 1857. 
Harvie-Brown (John Alexander,), nat. 1844 1 
Dr. Harvie-Brown, LL.D., of Dunipace House, Larbert, 
Stirlingshire, is a well-known name and personality in the 
ornithological world. As regards the said name some con- 
fusion has arisen through the perversity of bibliographers and 
others in placing it sometimes under the letter H, and some- 
times under the letter B. On enquiring into this, Dr. Harvie- 
Brown obliged us with an explanation in his characteristic 
style : “ My father’s name was Harvie — John Harvie of 
Shirgarton. He took the name by will and bequest of John 
Brown of Quarter, who left that property to him under 
Scottish Law of Entail, so he had to take the name Harvie- 
Brown. I have no relations whatever of the name of Brown. 
My mother was proprietrix of this place — Dunipace — in 
the same county. ... In the West Country I am still 
addressed by the country people thus : 4 Mr. Hervie, will you 
please stand here at the Doo-hoose corner ; and Mr. So-and- 
So is down there at the auld fence, and he kens there is a 
gun here — Right John ! ! ’ ” Dr. Harvie-Brown was born 
in August 1844 and educated at Merchiston and at Edin- 
burgh and Cambridge Universities. His contributions to 
ornithological science are literally legion. His first contri- 
bution to the Zoologist seems to have been in 1862 (note on the 
Sandpiper as a Diver), and they have been numerous since. 
In more recent years, however, he has contributed largely 
to the Proceedings of the Physical Society of Edinburgh , also 
the Natural History Society of Glasgow , and other Scottish 
journals, especially the Annals of Scottish Natural History (now 
1 His death took place, July 26, while these sheets were in the press. 
