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1875. The Book of the Axe : containing a piscatorial description of that 
Stream and Historical Sketches [etc.]. Fourth edition : rewritten 
and greatly enlarged. London : 1875. 
Collation — 1 vol. royal 8vo, pp. vii + pp. 906, map, plates, and 
cuts. Issued in 12 pts. [1873-75.] 
Ornithology at pp. 22-27. Early issues contained nothing on 
birds. 
Pulteney (Richard), 1730-1801 
This writer, principally known as a botanist, was born at 
Loughborough, Leicestershire, February 17 , 1730 , and was 
the only one of the thirteen children of his father, Samuel 
Pulteney, to reach maturity. He was educated at the Old 
Free School, Loughborough, and apprenticed for seven years 
to an apothecary of that town, afterwards practising as a 
surgeon and apothecary at Leicester ; but he met with little 
success in his profession owing to his Nonconformist convic- 
tions. In 1750 he became a contributor to the Gentleman's 
Magazine , and made a number of friends among men of science. 
He became F.R.S. in 1762 , and graduated M.D. at Edinburgh 
in 1764 . He soon after secured a practice as physician at 
Blandford, Dorset, where he passed the remainder of his life, 
occupying his leisure time with the study of botany, con- 
chology, etc. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 
1790 , and died of pneumonia at Blandford, October 13 , 1801 , 
bequeathing his museum and herbarium to the Linnean Society. 
His best-known works are A General View of the Writings of 
Linnceus ( 1781 ), and Historical and Biographical Sketches 
of the Progress of Botany in England (2 vols. 8vo, 1790 ). 
1799. Catalogues | of the | Birds, Shells, and some of the | more rare 
Plants of | Dorsetshire. | Prom the | new enlarged edition of | 
Mr. Hutchins’s History of that County. | By Richard Pulteney, 
M.D., F.B.S. Bond. & Edinb. | and Fellow of the Linnean 
Society. | London, printed by J. Nichols, | for the use of the 
compiler and his friends. | mdccxcix. 
Collation — 1 vol. folio. Title and 92 pp. 
Birds at pp. 1-22. 
Idem. An enlarged edition, 1813. 
