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[hudson 
and druggist, but business did not for some years prevent 
him engaging upon a literary career. In 1836 be removed to 
Esber, and in 1840 went to Heidelberg for tbe sake of bis 
children’s education, returning to England in 1843, when be 
settled first at Clapton and later at Highgate. He travelled 
in 1852-54 in Australia, and in 1870 settled at Rome, where 
be died March 3, 1879. The book undernoted seems to be 
the only one of bis many productions that really relates to 
our subject, although there are some references to birds in 
his Year Book of the Country (1850), and to birds’ nests in 
The Boy's Country Book (1839). 
1831. The | Book of the Seasons ; | or the | Calendar of Nature. | By 
William Howitt. | [Quotations, 4 lines.] | London : | Henry Col- 
burn and Richard Bentley, | New Burlington Street | 1831. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xxviii + pp. 404, with 12 pi. 
Contains numerous observations on birds under each month, 
as well as tables of migratory species. 
Idem. 2nd edition. 1833. 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xxiv + pp. 
326 (pi. omitted). 
[With Mary Howitt.] Idem. New editions. 1846, 1848. 
Howse (Richard), 1821-1901 
The late Richard Howse was formerly Curator of the 
Museum at Newcastle. He wrote several works on the fossils 
and geology of Durham and Northumberland, published by 
the Tyneside Naturalists’ Field Club, 1848-63. 
1892. Note on the Nesting of the Peewit. (Naturalist, pp. 137-9.) 
1899. Index Catalogue of the Birds in the Hancock Collection. 8vo. 
Newcastle : 1899. Not seen. 
Hudson (William Henry), viv. 
Mr. Hudson is perhaps best known to ornithologists by 
his Argentine Ornithology (2 vols., 1888-89), written in 
conjunction with the late Dr. P. L. Sclater. To general 
readers, however, he is widely known by his numerous well- 
written books on natural history and travel, such as The 
Purple Land that England Lost (1885 and subsequent editions), 
The Naturalist in La Plata (1892 and later), Idle Bays in 
