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By | The Bev. George Low, | Minister of Birsa and Haray. | From 
a Manuscript in the possession of Wm. Elford Leach, M.D. F.L.S., 
&c. | Edinburgh : | Printed by George Bamsay and Company, 
| For Archibald Constable and Company, Edinburgh ; and for 
Longman, | Hurst, Bees, Orme, and Brown, — and White, 
Cochrane, and Co. | London. | 1813. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. xx + pp. 230. 
Birds treated of at pp. 31-151. 
Note. — Low’s “ laborious and accurate observations ” were (as 
stated above) largely plagiarised by the Bev. George Barry in his 
History of the Orkney Islands. 1 vol. 4to, 1805 ; 2nd edit., 1808, q.v. 
1879. A Tour through the Islands of Orkney and Shetland, containing 
Hints relative to their Ancient, Modern and Natural History 
collected in 1774. With an Introduction by Joseph Anderson. 
Kirkwall: 1879. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 223. 
Contains remarks on birds. 
Lowe (William Walter), viv. 
This writer is an assistant master at Malvern College, 
and was educated at Pembroke College, Cambridge, taking 
his B.A. degree in 1896. 
The Preface to the undernoted work is dated from “ The 
College, Malvern, 1903,” and the author states that the 
pamphlet was prepared for “ members of the College Natural 
History Society.” 
[1903.] Birds of the Malvern District. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 13, printed one side only, no imprint. 
Lowne (Benjamin Thompson), not. 1839 
According to Mr. Miller Christy, this author’s work is 
“ practically a second edition of Paget’s Natural History of 
Yarmouth ” (q.v.). Dr. Lowne’s name is celebrated as the 
author of a wonderful two-volume work on the Anatomy of 
the Blow Fly (London, 1890-95) and other similar works. 
He was born at Norwich in 1839 and was apprenticed at the 
age of fourteen to a medical practitioner, finishing his medical 
education at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School. 
He is M.D., F.B.C.S., and F.L.S., and was in practice until 
1911, when he retired to Hove, Sussex. 
