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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[SIBBALD 
Fulneck, near Leeds. He was editor and co-proprietor with 
Henry Colburn of the New Monthly Magazine , commencing 
in 1814, and was associated with Ackermann, whose Re- 
pository of Arts (1809-28) he edited. He also wrote various 
historical works. In addition to the undernoted work, which 
deals entirely with British birds, he wrote a Natural History 
of Quadrupeds (1834). He died at Thistle Grove, Brompton, 
London, on March 5, 1853. 
1836. The | Natural History of Birds, | by | Frederic Shoberl. | With 
Engravings from Drawings by | Thomas Landseer. | London : [ 
John Harris, St. Paul’s Church-Yard | 1836. 
Collation — 1 vol. 12mo, pp. viii +pp. 275, front, and 12 pi. 
Sibbald (Sir Bobert), 1641-1722 
Robert Sibbald was born, according to the account in 
his Autobiography (of which the MS. is in the Advocates’ 
Library, Edinburgh), at the head of Blacldriars Wynd, 
Edinburgh, on April 15, 1641. In 1650, his parents being 
resident in Fife, he attended the village school at Cupar, and 
afterwards pursued his studies at the High School and 
University of Edinburgh. In 1660 he went to Leyden, where 
he took the degree of M.D. He afterwards studied at Paris 
and Angers, and, returning to London, remained there three 
months, and then settled down in his native city. His 
attention having been turned to the study of Natural History 
by his friend Dr. Andrew Balfour (1630-94), about the year 
1667 they together instituted a botanical garden in Edinburgh 
for the purpose of studying the medicinal properties of the 
various plants and herbs : the scheme received general 
support, and the collection grew to a considerable size. In 
1681, chiefly through Sibbald’s exertions, the Royal College 
of Physicians was founded in Edinburgh and a charter 
obtained from Charles II. On December 30, 1682, he was 
appointed by Charles II. Geographer Royal for Scotland, and 
one of the Royal Physicians, September 30, 1682, and in the 
same year received the honour of knighthood from the hands 
of the Duke of York. 
