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Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xvi un. + pp. 95 (of the Natural 
History) + title + pp. 118 (of the Vindication). 
This work contains some quaint but worthless remarks on 
birds, pp. 64-8 and 94-8 of the Vindication. 
Robson (Thomas), nat. 1864 
This writer, who is in business as a joiner and Cartwright 
at Derwent View, Winlaton, Blaydon-on-Tyne, tells us that 
when he wrote the Birds of Derwent Valley he confined him- 
self “ to a very narrow area on either side of the river Derwent, 
which runs into the river Tyne, near Newcastle-on-Tyne.” 
1896. Birds of the Derwent Valley. Consett : printed by J. Dent : 1896. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 64, with figs. 
Rodd (Edward Hearle), 1810-80 
This well-known Cornish ornithologist was the third son 
of Edward Rodd, D.D., and his wife Harriet, daughter of 
Charles Rashleigh, of Duporth, Cornwall, and was born at 
the vicarage of St. Just-in-Roseland on March 17, 1810. 
He was educated at Ottery St. Mary’s School and trained 
for the law, being admitted to practise as a solicitor in Trinity 
Term, 1832. Early in the following year he settled in 
Penzance.. He never married, but held many official posts 
in the town, and retired, after a long professional life, about 
two years before his death, which took place January 25, 
1880. 
He was all his life an enthusiastic ornithologist ; many 
notes and records from his pen appear in the early vols. 
of the Zoologist , commencing in 1843. His Birds of Cornwall, 
published soon after his death by J. E. Harting, was an- 
nounced as to be published by the author in a 4-page circular 
issued by him in 1877. His collection passed to his nephew, 
F. R. Rodd, of Trebartha Hall, Launceston. 
1843. Notes on the Occurrence of Some of the Rarer British Birds in the 
County of Cornwall. ( Zoologist , i. pp. 140-43.) 
1863. Little Ring Plover at Scilly, with a Glance at the Autumnal Birds 
at the Islands. (Op. cit: xxi. pp. 8847-9.) 
