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Mr. J. E. Harting has been good enough to make in Chertsey 
and the surrounding neighbourhood. Meyer does not seem 
to have remained long at Esher ; from there he removed to 
Chertsey, Surrey, where he resided with his family at Bridge 
Cottage, Bridge Road, and where the 8vo edition of the 
above-mentioned work was prepared. In 1852 or 1853 he 
took up his residence at Milford, near Godaiming, finally 
removing in 1863 to North Side, Clapham Common, where 
he died about the following March, and where his family 
continued to reside. His family consisted of three sons, 
Christian Hendrick who became a civil engineer, Charles 
John Adrian, and another, and also of three daughters, all 
of whom, with the exception of the third son, shared in his 
tastes and abilities to such an extent that the whole of the 
hand-colouring of the plates was carried out by them, while 
Mrs. Meyer, who was an accomplished artist, not only executed 
such of the drawings as were not made by her husband, but 
drew many of the plates upon the stones. She is said to 
have been a frequent visitor to the Gardens of the Zoological 
Society for the purpose of sketching the birds there. We 
have seen the large series of the original drawings for the 
book, now in the Westfield Place Library, of which a con- 
siderable proportion appear to have been executed by Mrs. 
Meyer, and Miss Meyer considers from the evidence of these 
drawings, and also from allusions in letters of the period, 
that Mrs. Meyer possibly drew the earlier plates for the 
work. 
Meyer is described by one who knew him well as “ an 
artist by profession and a great naturalist,” and he states in 
his preface to the 8vo edition of the Illustrations that “ it has 
been the author’s wish to represent the Birds as much as 
possible in their natural attitudes, for which purpose he has 
for some years past availed himself of every opportunity of 
studying them in Nature, and has also kept a collection of 
living subjects, from which his drawings have been made 
as represented in the Quarto publication, now within a few 
parts of its completion.” 
