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Slater (Rev. Henry Horrocks), ob. 1907 (?) 
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The Rev. H. H. Slater, M.A., F.Z.S., M.B.O.U., of Ightham, 
Sevenoaks, and formerly of Thornhaugh Rectory, Wansford, 
Northamptonshire, is best remembered as author of the 
Manual of the Birds of Iceland (post 8vo, Edinburgh, 1901). 
He was educated at St. Catherine’s College, Cambridge, 
taking his B.A. degree in 1880, and proceeding M. A. in 1887. 
He was ordained in 1879, and after two curacies became 
vicar of Ir Chester in 1883, and rector of Thornhaugh in 1893. 
He. became a Fellow of the Zoological Society in December 
1877 and resigned from that Society and the B.O.U. in 
December 1906, when he left Thornhaugh. 
1882. Pilmoor : occurrence of the Twite’s Nest. (Naturalist, vii. pp. 
179-81.) 
1884. The Ornithology of Riding - Mill - on - Tyne and neighbourhood 
[Northumberland]. ( Zoologist , ser. 3, viii. pp. 92-106.) 
1887. Notes on the Migration of Birds. (Jour. Northants. Soc. iv. 
pp. 295-307.) 
1898. Order Limicolce. [In British Birds, with their Nests and Eggs, v. 
pp. 49-178, pi. xv-xviii.] London : 1898. 4to. 
1899-1901. Birds of Northamptonshire and neighbourhood. Reports for 
1897-1900. (Jour. Northants. N.H. Soc. x. pp. 14-18, 171-7, 
295-9 ; xi. pp. 57-63, 141-8.) 
These notes were ultimately continued by W. A. Shaw. 
1902. Aves. [In Victoria Hist, of Co. of Northants. i. pp. 111-28.] London : 
1902. 4to. 
Smart (Rev. Thomas Gregory), 1827-96 
This author was born in London, May 29, 1827; was 
educated at Westminster, whence he proceeded to Trinity 
College, Cambridge, with a scholarship in 1846 (B.A. 1849, 
M.A. 1856). In 1861 he became curate of St. John, Lytham, 
and vicar of that parish in 1870, holding the living until his 
death, which occurred at Bath in 1896. His work is 
avowedly a criticism of the B.O.U. List (1883), but it in- 
cidentally also includes | a few remarks upon 4 Evolution ’ 
and notes upon the rarer eggs.” 
