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BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 
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Published in vol. iv. Transactions of the Linnean Society, 
4to, 1798, pp. 1-30 + “ A Table of the Appearance and Disap- 
pearance of the Following Birds,” and plate of Tringa maritima. 
(Comprises a list of birds, with a few short notes.) 
1802. [Edited by.] The Works, | in | Natural History, | of the late I 
Rev. Gilbert White, A.M. | [etc.] ... To which are added | A 
Calendar and Observations, | by W. Markwick, Esq., F.L.S. | 
in Two Volumes. | Vol. I. [II.] London [etc.] : 1802. 
Coues gives this, the first 8vo edition, as edited by Markwick, 
and it is also quoted as Aikin’s ; but, as Coues points out, the 
advt. is signed “ J. W[hite].” 
See under White (Gilbert). 
Note . — Coues is in error in stating that the three 1813 editions 
of the above were edited by Markwick. 
Mare (J. E.) and Shipley (A. E.). See under Evans (A. H.) 
Maesham (H. P.). See under Bell (T.) and Newton (A.) 
Martin (Benjamin), 1704-82 
Martin is best known as a voluminous writer on mathe- 
matics and the microscope. His works, indeed, are some 
thirty or more in number on these subjects, and the one 
included below contains the smallest possible reference to 
ornithology. This rather ambiguous work was at first 
designed as part of Martin's Magazine , a New and Compre- 
hensive System of Philosophy, Natural History, Philology, 
Mathematical Institutions, and Biography, of which fourteen 
vols. were projected, but only seven appeared (1759-64). 
Martin, who was born in 1704 at Worplesdon, Surrey, 
began life as a ploughboy. Subsequently he set up as a 
teacher of reading, writing, and arithmetic in Guildford, his 
spare time being spent in the study of mathematics and 
astronomy. A legacy of £500 from a relative bettered his 
position, and his first book, Bibliotheca Technologica, appeared 
in 1737, at which time he kept a school at Chichester. Soon 
after he began to invent and make optical instruments and 
microscopes, as well as to produce books on these subjects. 
He died February 9, 1782, after an attempt at suicide, 
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