manbeti-pleydell] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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arranged with a view to supersede the use of | labels for Eggs. | 
By the Bev. S. G. Malan ; M.A. | Yicar of Broadwindsor, Dorset. 
| London: | John Van Voorst, 1, Paternoster Row. | mdcccxlviii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 170. 
Mansel-Pleydell (John Clavell), 1817-1902 
J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, B.A., F.L.S., F.G.S., a well-known, 
Dorsetshire antiquary and naturalist, was born at Smedmore, 
Dorset, December 4, 1817, being the eldest son of Colonel 
John Manse] , by his wife Louise, nee Pleydell. Educated 
privately, he entered St. John’s College, Cambridge, in 1836, 
graduated B.A. in 1839, and was admitted a student of 
Lincoln’s Inn in 1840, but was not called to the Bar. He 
succeeded on his mother’s death to the family estate of 
Whatcombe, and also to property in the Isle of Purbeck, and 
in 1872 assumed the additional name of Pleydell. He 
founded the Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field 
Club in 1875, and was its President until his death. In 
1876 he was High Sheriff of Dorset. He was married twice 
and had three sons, of whom two survived him. He died 
at his Dorset residence, May 3, 1902. The Flora of Dorset- 
shire (1874 ; 2nd ed. 1895) is perhaps his best-known work. 
The 1874 edition of this was chiefly extracted from the 
Nat. Hist, section he contributed to Hutchins’s Dorset , as 
was also the reprint of Ornithology and Conchology referred 
to below. 
1861-74. Ornithology. [In Hutchins's History and Antiquities of Dorset, 
3rd edition (in 4 vols.) Vol. I., General Introduction, pp. cxv- 
xxx.] Folio. London & Westminster : 1861-74. 
Idem. An author’s reprint of the articles on Birds and Mol- 
lusca entitled “ Ornithology and Conchology of the County of 
Dorset.” [London and Blandford : 1873 ?•] 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 120. 
Birds at pp. 1-58. 
Not seen. ( Cf . Ibis, 1874, p. 447, where it is erroneously stated 
to be “ reprinted from the new edition of Pulteney’s Dorsetshire ” ; 
also Coues, p. 460, who repeats the error and gives it 320 pp. 
instead of 120.) 
[1888.] The Birds of Dorsetshire. London & Dorchester : n.d. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi + pp. 179, with front, and cuts. 
