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plates in colour by Miss W. Austen, G-. E. Collins, H. Gronvold, 
G-. E. Lodge, and A. W. Seaby ; and numerous photographs. 
Sections I. to X. published to December 1912. [Sections XI. 
and XII., June and November 1913.] Yol. I. (Sect. I. -III.), pp. 
xii + pp. 449, pi. 46 and xvii. Vol. II. (Sect. IV.-VI.), pp. xii 
+ pp. 540, pi. 47-93 and xviii-xxxviii. Yol. III. (Sect. VII. -IX.), 
pp. xii + pp. 609, pi. 94-135 and xxxix-lviii. 
Section I. was published May 24, 1910 ; Section II., October 14, 
1910 ; Section III., January 23, 1911 ; Section IV., April 4, 1911 ; 
Section V., June 14, 1911 ; Section VI., November 8, 1911 ; Section 
VII., January 30, 1912 ; Section VIII., April 16, 1912 ; Section 
IX., June 28, 1912 ; Section X., December 18, 1912. [Sections 
XI. and XII., 1913.] 
Knapp (John Leonard), 1767-1845 
This writer, principally known as a disciple of Gilbert 
White, was born at Shenley, Bucks, May 9, 1767, being the 
son of Primatt Knapp, Lector of Shenley. He was educated 
at Thame Grammar School, and entered the Navy ; but finding 
the sea unsuited to his health, resigned, and subsequently 
served in the Herefordshire and Northants Militia, subse- 
quently becoming a captain in the latter. He lived for some 
time at Powick near Worcester, and was in the habit of 
making long botanical excursions. On one of these he 
visited Scotland in company with George Don. In 1804 
he published his Gramina Britannica. This edition, with 
the exception of a hundred copies, was destroyed by fire at 
Bensley’s the printer’s, and was not reissued until 1842. 
Between 1820 and 1830 he published a series of articles, 
entitled “ The Naturalist’s Diary,” in the Times Telescope. 
These formed the germ of his J ournal of a Naturalist. 
He lived until 1813 at Llanfoist near Abergavenny, and 
subsequently at Alveston near Bristol, where he died, April 29, 
1845. He married in 1804, and had seven children, of whom 
two sons and a daughter survived him. 
The J ournal of a Naturalist was, as stated in the Preface, 
written on the lines of White’s Natural History of Selborne. 
The locality dealt with was between Bristol and Gloucester. 
In addition to the two English editions under no ted, an 
American edition was published at Buffalo, in 1853, under 
