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in editing the Pioneer in 1869. Returning to England in 
1877, lie joined the staff of the Daily Telegraph as leader- 
writer, and acted as war correspondent for that paper, as 
also later for the Pall Mall Gazette. He died December 9, 
1902. 
He was one of the pioneers of Anglo-Indian literature, 
and was foremost in inaugurating the literature descriptive 
of animate nature in India, the “ Indian Garden ” series being 
the most popular of his books. 
*1883. The Poets’ Birds. London (Chatto & Windus) : 1883. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. x + pp. 490. 
Pt. II. consists of the poets’ references to birds, arranged 
alphabetically according to species, with prefatory notes upon all 
the more important birds. 
1894. Birds of the Wave and Woodland, illustrated by Chas. Whymper 
and others. 1894. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo, pp. 224. (Pub. 10s. 6d.) 
Robinson (Thomas), oh. 1719 
Of the earlier life of this author we know nothing. He 
was appointed to the rectory of Ousby, Cumberland, in 1672. 
He is said, after service on Sundays, to have presided at a 
kind of club at the village alehouse, where each member 
spent a sum not exceeding one penny. His leisure time he 
devoted to collecting facts about the natural history and 
mineral resources of Cumberland and Westmorland, an 
account of which he first published in 1694 in a 4to volume 
entitled Anatomy of the Earth , while in 1698 appeared New 
Observations on the Natural History of this World. The work 
undernoted followed in 1709. He died in 1719. 
1709. An | Essay | towards a | Natural History | of | Westmorland | and 
| Cumberland. | Wherein | An Account is given of their several 
Mineral | and Surface Productions, with some Dire- | ctions how 
to discover Minerals by the Ex- | ternal and Adjacent Strata and 
Upper Co- | vers, &c. | To which is annexed, | A Vindication of 
the Philosophical and Theological | Paraphrase of the Mosaick 
System of the | Creation, &c. | By Tho. Robinson, Rector of | 
Ousby in Cumberland. | London : Printed by F.L. for W. 
Freeman, at the | Bible against the Middle-Temple-Gate in 
Fleetstreet, 1709. 
