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Edited by his brother Stephen H. Saxby, M.A. Edinburgh : 
MDCCCLXXIV. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xv + p. list of illus. +pp. 398, frontis. 
and seven illus. 
Saxby (Jessie Margaret Edmondston), nat. 1842 
This authoress was born at Halligarth, Shetland Isles, 
June 30 , 1842 , being the ninth child of Laurence and Eliza 
Edmondston. She married, in 1859 , Henry Linckmyer 
Saxby, M.D., author of The Birds of Shetland , etc. She has 
contributed numerous articles to magazines and daily papers, 
and has published many books. 
1893. Birds of Omen in Shetland. 1893. 
Collation— 8vo, pamphlet, pp. 32. 
Schottus (Gaspar), 1608 - 1666 1 
Sclater (Philip Lutley), 1829-1913 
Dr. Sclater, one of our greatest extra-British ornitho- 
logists, chiefly claims a place in the present work as editor of 
the Ibis, and as one of the Committee on the B.O.U. List of 
British birds. He was born November 4 , 1829 , at Tangier 
Park, in Hampshire, then the residence of his father, Mr. 
William Lutley Sclater, and was educated at Twyford, near 
Winchester, Winchester College, and Corpus Christi College, 
Oxford (B.A., 1849 ; M.A., 1852 ); called to the Bar, 
Lincoln’s Inn, 1855 . 
His earliest printed communication, we have noted, was in 
the Zoologist for 1845 (p. 1067 ) on the arrival of summer 
1 This famous philosopher and mathematician was born in the district of Wurtzburg 
in 1608. Of him it has been said that “ in the various writings of this Jesuit are to 
be met with the germs of the greater part of modern experiments in physics.” His 
chief works were Organum Mathematicum and Anatomica Physico-hydrostatica Fontium 
et Fluminum. His undernoted work merits a passing notice here as it contains at 
p. 974 a chapter “ De Avibus Britannicis,” which, however, deals almost exclusively 
with the “ Bernacle fable,” and quotes Wm. Harvey’s He Generatione Animalium 
thereon. 
*1667. Physica | Curiosa, | sive | Mirabilia | Naturae et Artis | Libris XII. | [etc.] 
Herbipoli. | [Wurtzburg] Anno m.dc.lxvii. 
Collation — 1 vol. 4to, pp. xlviii + pp. 1389 +pp. 23 un. 
