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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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Lee (Mrs. Kobert [formerly Mrs. Sarah Bowdich]), 
1791-1865 (?) 
This lady, nee Sarah Wallis, a daughter of John Eglington 
Wallis, of Colchester, married in 1813 Thomas Edward 
Bowdich, the African traveller. During his lifetime her 
only natural history work was a little volume on taxidermy 
published in 1820 ; but some time after Bowdich’ s death, in 
1824, she was married again, to Bobert Lee, and under her 
later name she became a popular writer and illustrator of 
natural history works for the young. She appears, however, 
to have had but slight acquaintance with ornithology, the 
title of her British Birds being quite a misnomer, as will be 
seen by the quoted contents. She died in 1865, according 
to the Diet. Nat. Biog., but the exact date is uncertain. 
*1852. British Birds. With Descriptions by Mrs. R. Lee and Seven 
Pictures from Drawings by Harrison Weir. London : 1852. 
Collation — 1 vol. sq. post 8vo, pp. 16 un. with 7 woodcut pi. 
Contents comprise the Turkey, Ducks, Fowls, the Swan, Geese, 
Pigeons, Pheasants and Partridges. 
Idem. Another edit. [British Animals and Birds.] London : 
n.d. [1865]. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. 48 un. with 21 col. pi. 
Lees (Edwin), 1800-1887 
This well-known Worcestershire botanist was born at 
Worcester in 1800, and educated at Birmingham. He began 
his career as a printer and stationer in his native town, but 
early gave up business and devoted himself to the study of 
the botany of the district. In 1829 he founded the Worcester 
Literary and Scientific Institute, of which he was joint- 
secretary. His Botany of Worcestershire (1867), Botanical 
Looker-Out (1842 ; new edition 1851), and Botany of the 
Malvern Hills (1843 and subsequent editions) are still 
esteemed. He seems to have paid some attention also to 
ornithology and other branches of natural history, and was 
a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies. He died 
at Greenhill Summit, Worcester, October 21, 1887, and was 
