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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[HASTINGS 
1912. Habits of the Whimbrel. ( Zoologist , pp. 241-5.) 
The Fulmar. ( T.c . pp. 381-8, 401-16, 2 pi.) 
Idem. (Scott. Nat. pp. 97-102, 121-32, pi. iv., map.) 
Hastings (Sir Charles), 1794-1866 
Sir Charles Hastings was born at Ludlow in 1794, being 
the sixth son of the Rev. James Hastings, Rector of Martley. 
He studied under two surgeons at Stourport, and at the age 
of eighteen, without a legal qualification, and after only a 
few months’ study in London, was elected House Surgeon to 
the Worcester Infirmary. In 1815, at the age of twenty-one, 
he entered at Edinburgh University, and continued to work 
at experimental physiology and microscopy ; being the 
only student at that time who used the microscope in medical 
research. He graduated M.D. in 1818, and was at once 
appointed physician to the Worcester Infirmary ; he was 
for many years the leading practitioner in Worcestershire. 
He was knighted in 1850, and in 1856 was appointed per- 
manent President of the Council of the British Medical and 
Surgical Association. He was deeply interested in natural 
history, and assisted largely in developing the Worcester 
Museum. He is said to have published a List of Worcester- 
shire Birds in 1838 ( cf . T. Duckworth in Trans. Worces. Nat. 
Club , iv. pt. i., 1907, p. 19), but the bird section in his 
Illustrations (1834) was by E. Brown. A Hastings Prize and 
Medal are annually awarded in honour of his memory by the 
Brit. Medical Assoc., and in 1882 a marble bust by Thomas 
Brock, R.A., was presented to the city and placed in the 
Public Library at Worcester. 
1834. Illustrations | of the | Natural History | of | Worcestershire, | 
with | Information on the Statistics, Zoology and Geology | of 
the County, . . . | by | Charles Hastings, M.D. | Published at the 
Request of the Council | of the Worcestershire Natural History 
Society. | London : | Published by Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper ; | 
Lees, Worcester : | and Sold by all Booksellers. | 1834. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 4 un. + pp. iv + pp. 2 un. + pp. 184, 
map. 
Birds at pp. 63-72, by E. Brown. 
