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some of them being in collaboration with W. Percival Westell. 
He has also written various other juvenile and theological 
works. 
1906. [With W. Percival Westell.] Every Boy’s Book of British Natural 
History. By W. Percival Westell. Chapters and Notes on 
Nature Photography, and 109 original illustrations by S. N. 
Sedgwick. London (R.T.S.) : 1906. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. 296. (Pub. 3s. 6d.) 
1908. [With the Same.] The Boys’ Own Nature Book. By W. Percival 
Westell. With chapter and notes on Nature-photography and 
162 illustr. by S. N. Sedgwick. London (R.T.S.) : 1908. 
Collation — 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. 390. (Pub. 3s. 6d.) 
The Young People’s Nature Study Book in Garden, Field and 
W T ood. Illustr. London (R. Cully) : n.d. [1908.] 
Collation— 1 vol. cr. 8vo, pp. 304. (Pub. 3s. 6d. net.) 
1909. The Young People’s Birds’-Nest Chart. Ib. : n.d. [1909.] 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. 61, inch 2 col. pi. and photo, ill. 
(Pub. Is. net.) 
[n.d.] Birds’ Eggs and Nests and how to Identify them. London : [n.d.] 
Collation — 1 vol. f’cap 8vo, 4 col. pi. and ill. (Pub. Is.) 
Seebohm (Henry), 1832-95 
Seebohm’ s name will ever rank high among those of 
British ornithologists, not only as the author of one of the 
most important histories of British birds, but as an example 
of a successful business man (he was a steel manufacturer at 
Sheffield and a member of the Society of Friends), who not 
only found leisure to travel Europe over in search of rare 
birds and eggs, but at the same time to become a really 
scientific ornithologist. Although his reputation as an 
ornithologist rests largely upon his History of British Birds , 
a thoroughly original work, being compiled for the most part 
from the author’s personal observations in the field instead 
of from the writings of others, yet he did much useful work 
besides. His earliest published work, of any account, was 
his Notes on the Birds of the Lower Petchora (1876-77), which 
was followed by nearly fifty other papers on Palaearctic 
birds in the Ibis, P.Z.S. , etc. His Catalogue of the Tur- 
didce (vol. v. of the British Museum Catalogue of Birds , 
