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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[JENYNS 
an Introduction to their Natural History: | and | copious notes: | 
By James Jennings, | Author of Observations on the Dialects of 
the West of England, &c. &c. | — | [Quotations, 6 lines] | — | 
London : | Printed for the Author, | and published by | Poole 
and Edwards, Stationers’ Court. | 1828. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. xxix + pp. 468, front, and engr. 
title to Part I., British and European Birds ; front, and engr. 
title to Part II., Eoreign Birds. 
Idem. 2nd edit. With additions and corrections. London : 
1829. 1 vol. post 8vo. 
Note — This work contains many notes in prose, embodying 
observations on the bird life of East and South-East London. 
*1828. The Pleasures of Ornithology. A Poem. London : 1828. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 46. 
Jenyns (Rev. Leonard [afterwards Blomefield]), 
1800-1893 
Leonard Jenyns was the younger son of George Leonard 
Jenyns, Canon of Ely and Chairman of the Board of Agri- 
culture. He was born in Pall Mall, May 25, 1800. His 
mother was the daughter of Dr. Heberden and a first cousin 
of Dr. William Wollaston. Upon the death of his cousin 
Soame Jenyns in 1787, George Leonard Jenyns had inherited 
the Bottisham Hall property in Cambridgeshire. 
Jenyns was educated first at Putney and afterwards at 
Eton. In 1818 he went to St. John’s College, Cambridge, 
and took a Pass Degree four years later. In 1823 he was 
ordained deacon and next year priest, when he became 
curate of Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire ; and in 1828 
he succeeded to that benefice. 
He was intimate with Henslow, Whewell, Darwin, A. 
Sedgwick, etc. In 1834-35 he wrote his Manual , and 1840 
the Fishes in the Beagle Voyage . In 1850 his wife’s health 
compelled them to settle at South Stoke, near Combe Down, 
Bath. Two years later he removed to Swainswick and served 
the curacy of Woolley. In 1860, on the death of his wife, 
he settled in Bath, and married again in 1862. He was the 
founder and first President of the Bath Natural History and 
Antiquarian Field Club, and donor of the Jenyns Library, 
