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1902. On the British Dipper. (Ibis, pp. 524-5.) 
1905. [With Ernst Hartert.] Birds [in Victoria Hist, of Co. of Bucks, i. 
pp. 128-52]. London : 1905. 4to. 
1907. *Extinct Birds. An Attempt to unite in One Volume a Short 
Account of those Birds which have become Extinct in Historical 
Times — that is, within the last Six or Seven Hundred Years. 
To which are added a Few which still Exist, but are on the Verge 
of Extinction. London (Hutchinson) : 1907. 
Collation — 1 vol. folio, pp. xxix + pp. 244, with 45 col. pi. and 
other ill. 
Contains at pp. 153-6 and pi. 38 the Great Auk ; but all the 
other species are foreign. 
The British Willow-Tit (Parus atricajnllus Meinschmidti, Hellm.). 
(Brit. Birds, i. pp. 44-7.) 
Baer’s Pochard a British Bird. (T.c. pp. 63-4.) 
Rowe (Joshua Brooking), 1837-1908 
J. Brooking Rowe, antiquary and naturalist, born at 
Plymouth, June 12, 1837, was the only son of Joshua Brooking 
Rowe, printer and bookseller, of Plymouth. After education 
at a private school in Plymouth, he was in 1860 admitted a 
solicitor and practised for many years in Plymouth. Through 
life he devoted his leisure to literary and scientific research. 
In 1862 he helped to form the Devon Association, of which 
he was President in 1882, and joint Honorary Secretary from 
1901 till his death. To the Transactions of the Association 
he contributed over fifty papers. In 1875 he was elected 
F.S.A., and he was also a Fellow of the Linnean Society and a 
member of numerous antiquarian societies. His photograph 
hangs in the Exeter Public Library, to which institution he 
bequeathed his library of about 10,000 volumes, pamphlets, 
MSS., etc., including an unpublished History of Plympton 
St. Mary. From 1882 he resided at Plympton St. Maurice, 
where he died on June 28, 1908, and was buried in the church- 
yard there. He was married, but had no children. 
1863. A Catalogue of the Mammals, Birds ... of Devon. London (Van 
Voorst) : 1863. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. 50. 
(Also as a reprint from Journal of Plymouth Nat. Hist. Soc., 
