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He wrote several works on mineral waters, etc., and some 
papers in the Phil. Trans, of the Royal Society , and appears 
to have practised first in London as a physician, but later at 
Manchester. He is thought to have died in 1701, but some 
doubt exists on this point (see his biography in Diet. Nat. 
Biog. xxxii. p. 431). He cannot strictly be called an 
ornithological writer, as the bird matter in the under- 
mentioned work is of the scantiest nature. 
1700. The | Natural History | of | Lancashire, Cheshire, | and the | Peak, 
in Derbyshire : | with an | Account | of the | British, Phoenician, 
Armenian, Gr. and Bom. | Antiquities | in those | Parts. | By 
Charles Leigh, | Doctor of Physick. | Oxford : | Printed for the 
Author ; and to be had at Mr. George West’s, | and Mr. Henry 
Clement’s, Booksellers there ; Mr. Edward Evet’s, | at the 
Green-Dragon, in St. Paul’s Church-yard ; and Mr. John | 
Nicholson, at the King’s-Arms, in Little-Britain, London, mdcc. 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, pp. 22 un. +pp. 4 list of Subscribers + 
pp. 2 advertisement + pp. 196 wrongly numbered 190 + pp. 2 
author’s vindication + Book II. pp. 97 + pp. 2 errata + Book III. 
pp. 124 (numbered 112) + pp. 35 Index. Portrait. Map and 
xxiv plates. 
Birds treated of in Book I. ch. ix. pp. 157-164. 
Lowndes observes of this work : “In no estimation, being 
chiefly a translation of the author’s Phthisiologia Lancastriensis 
with trivial additions.” 
Leslie (A. S.). See under Shipley (A. E.) 
Lewin (William), oh. 1795 
Little is known of the life of Lewin except that be was 
elected Fellow of tbe Linnean Society, December 20, 1791, 
was residing at Darentb, Kent, in 1792, and at Hoxton in 
1794. He probably died at tbe end of 1795, as bis name does 
not appear in tbe list of Fellows of tbe Linnean Society for 
1796, and be is termed “ tbe late 55 in tbeir Transactions for 
1797. 
Lewin, according to Swainson, was “ tbe best zoological 
painter, and one of tbe most practical naturalists, of bis 
day.” He was patronised by tbe Ducbess of Portland 
(from whose collection be drew tbe eggs for bis greatest 
