e utter] BRITISH ORNITHOLOGY 499 
1878. A few words on Fen-land. (T.c. Pt. XIV. , May 1878, pp. 203-22, 
pi. cv-ix.) 
Ruskin (John), 1819-1900 
The life and writings’ of this eminent man are too well 
known to need mention here. The undernoted volume 
consists of three lectures, on the Robin, the Swallow, and 
the Dabchicks. As for the ornithological knowledge dis- 
played therein, the less said the better, always supposing his 
remarks are serious . 1 
*1873-81. Love’s Meinie. Lectures on Greek and English Birds. Yol. I. 
Sunnyside, Orpington, Kent. 1881. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. viii + pp. 195. 
Note . — The lectures on the Robin and Swallow appeared in 
1873, that on the Dabchicks in 1881. 
Russell (Loud John). See Grove (Hon. Mrs. E.) 
Rutter (John), 1796-1851 
John Rutter, son of Thomas Rutter, a Bristol member of 
the Society of Friends, was born at Bristol, April 10, 1796, 
and appears to have settled as a bookseller and printer at 
Shaftesbury, Dorsetshire, about 1818, and there to have com- 
piled and published several topographical works. About the 
year 1830, however, he gave up his business and studied law, 
eventually acquiring a considerable practice in the neigh- 
bourhood. Tom Moore (Diary, vol. v. p. 92) has an anecdote 
of his visit to this “ quaker bookseller/’ who thrust a copy 
of his splendid Fonthill Abbey into his carriage as he was 
driving off, saying it was a mark of respect for the independent 
spirit he had shown in his Life of Sheridan. 
The bird matter in the undermentioned work is a bare 
list of species, occupying p. 323, with a footnote on Heronries 
in the county. The work also contains a good deal on 
geology and palaeontology as well as a list of the rarer plants 
of the district. 
1 E.g. p. 99 : “I am sixty-two and have passed as much time out of those years 
by torrent sides as most people. But I have never seen a water-ouzel alive.” 
