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Hitchins (Fortescue). See under Drew (Samuel) 
Hobkirk (Charles Cqdrington Pressick), 1837-1902 
Charles P. Hobkirk, of Huddersfield, was formerly 
President of the Huddersfield Naturalists’ Society and one 
of the editors of the Naturalist from 1865 to 1884. In 
addition to the undernoted work, which contains a table of 
arrival of migratory birds and a list of birds briefly annotated, 
he wrote a well-known Synopsis of the British Mosses (1873 ; 
2nd edit. 1884), and was, in fact, more famous as a botanist 
than as a zoologist. 
1859. Huddersfield : Its History and Natural History. A Descriptive, 
Historical, Geological, Botanical and Zoological Sketch of the 
Town and Neighbourhood. London : 1859. 
Collation — -1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 164, front. 
Contains Birds of Huddersfield at pp. 140-45. 
Idem. 2nd edit. Huddersfield and London : 1868. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xi + pp. 256, with 10 pi. 
Table of Arrival at p. 212 and list of birds at pp. 214-20. 
Hobson (R.). See Waterton (C.) 
Hogg (John), 1800-69 
John Hogg, M.A., F.R.S., F.L.S., classical scholar as well 
as naturalist, was born in 1800 and educated at Durham 
Grammar School and Peterhouse, Cambridge, where he 
graduated B.A. in 1822 and M.A. in 1827. He was admitted 
to the Inner Temple in 1828, and called to the Bar January 27, 
1832, and joined the northern circuit. He was an all-round 
naturalist, and wrote on fishes and amphibia, and on botanical 
subjects, including a Catalogue of Sicilian Plants (1842), as 
well as a large number of works on Syrian, Greek, and Roman 
antiquities. He was a contributor to a number of scientific 
and other journals, and a member of many learned societies, 
besides being President of the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field 
Club. He was also J.P. and D.L. for the County of Durham. 
His important appendix to Brewster’s Parochial History of 
Stockton - upon - Tees was contributed to the 2nd edition 
