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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[MEYER 
Merrifield (Mrs. Mary Philadelphia), fl. 1844-64 
Mrs. Merrifield, who dates her preface from 2 Dorset 
Gardens, Brighton, frankly acknowledges that she has 
compiled the undermentioned work from materials supplied 
by various well-known authorities, and the information on 
the birds is entirely placed to the credit of A. E. Knox, 
although, as Mrs. Merrifield presumably actually wrote the 
chapter on birds, the work must here stand under her name. 
She also wrote several works of some importance on art and 
kindred subjects. 
1860. A Sketch of the Natural History of Brighton and its Vicinity. 
Brighton : 1860. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, front, with half title on reverse + 
pp. xi + pp. 227, with folding map. 
Birds at chap. xi. pp. 163-79, and List of Birds at pp. 224-26. 
Idem. Another issue, 1864, withput front., and having fresh 
title-page bearing additional words “ Edited by ” above Mrs 
Merrifield’s name. 
Meyer (Henry Leonard), 6b. 1864 
Meyer was of Dutch extraction, his father being a banker 
at Amsterdam, and several times Member for North Holland. 
Meyer, Senior, came to England after the establishment of 
Louis Napoleon’s Kingdom in the Low Countries, and his 
son consequently spent the rest of his life here. 1 He married, 
in January 1830, Mary Anne Moor, of Woodbridge, and went 
to live first in Woburn Place, and later at Esher, Surrey, 
where in 1835 the imperial quarto (commonly termed the 
folio) edition of the Illustrations was commenced. 
We have but little information about Meyer’s career, no 
published account of him seems to have appeared, and for 
such facts as we are enabled to give concerning his life and 
writings we are indebted to the recollections of his surviving 
daughter, Miss Constance Meyer, and to enquiries which 
1 It is possible that our author was a relation of Henry Meyer the landscape painter, 
who was born in Amsterdam in 1737, and was one of the directors of the Academy at 
Harlem. This Meyer established himself in London having left his native country on 
account of being implicated in the revolution of 1788. He died in London in 1793. 
