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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[lankester 
1854. He is well known as the author of the Popular History 
of British Seaweeds (1849), and the Popular History of British 
Zoophytes or Corallines (1852). He was an indefatigable 
naturalist and observer, and is stated to have added nearly 
seventy species of plants and animals to the Scottish list 
(cf art. Diet. Nat. Biog.). He was, however, no ornithologist, 
his list of the birds in Arran (1847) being furnished by the 
Rev. Dr. MacNaughton, minister of the parish of Kilbride, 
while that in Arran : its Topography , etc. (1875) was 
supplied by It. Gray, the short chapters on birds in the 
respective works being merely of a general character. The 
topography, antiquities, memoir, etc., of the last-mentioned 
work were contributed by> the son, David Landsborough the 
younger, who died in 1886, and achieved some reputation as 
an Australian explorer. 
1847. Arran : | A 'Poem in Six Cantos. | and | Excursions to Arran, | with 
reference to the | Natural History of the Island. | by | the Rev. 
David Landsborough, | Minister of the Gospel, Saltcoats. | . . . 
Edinburgh ; and | . . . London. | mdcccxlvii. 
Note . — The above appears to comprise the 2nd edit, of Arran , 
and the 1st series of the Excursions. 
1852. Excursions to Arran, Ailsa Craig, and the Two Cumbraes, with 
reference to the Natural History of these Islands. Second 
Series. Edinburgh : 1852. 
Collation — 1 vol. fcap. 8vo, pp. 196, map. 
Birds of Ailsa at pp. 112-31. 
1875. Arran : its Topography, Natural History, and Antiquities. By 
the Landsboroughs, father and son. With Memoir of Rev. 
D. Landsborough. Ardrossan and London : 1875. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. i-ix + 1 p. itinerary + pp. 9-495 + 
1 p. appendix, folding map. 
Birds at pp. 387-408, with a list by R. Gray at pp. 470-77. 
[Called 2nd edit, in Preface.] 
Lankester (Edwin), 1814-74 
This well-known scientific writer, father of Sir Edwin 
Ray Lankester, was born April 23, 1814, at Melton, near 
Woodbridge, Suffolk, his father being a builder. He left 
school at twelve and was apprenticed to a surgeon. He later 
studied medicine at the London University, and became 
