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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
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1886. Birds on the British List, their title to enrolment considered, 
especially with reference to the B.O.U. List of British Birds. 
London & Preston : 1886. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. xxiv + pp. 148. 
Smee (Alfred), 1818-77 
Alfred Smee, by profession a surgeon, was the second 
son of William Smee, Accountant General to the Bank of 
England, and was born at Camberwell, June 18, 1818. He 
became a medical student at King’s College, London, and 
during this time lived at the Bank. He became M.R.C.S. 
in 1840, and at first commenced to practise in Finsbury 
Circus, but in 1841 became Surgeon to the Bank of England, 
and in 1842 Surgeon to the Royal General Dispensary in 
Aldersgate. He devoted much attention to electro-biology 
and electro-metallurgy and kindred subjects, and wrote 
several works on medical subjects and philosophy, and one 
on the potato plant. He was one of the founders of the 
Gresham Life Assurance Society. 
The garden referred to was his recreation in later life, 
and was situated at Wallington in Surrey. 
Smee died at 7 Finsbury Circus, January 11, 1877. A 
son, Alfred Hutchison Smee, F.C.S., devoted some attention 
to ornithology, and was the author of several notes and papers 
in the Zoologist (1869-75) on Essex birds, etc. Possibly he 
had a hand in the undermentioned work. 
1872. My Garden, its plan and culture, together with a general description 
of its geology, botany, and natural history. 2nd edit. London : 
1872. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo. Birds at pp. 522-55, with numerous 
figures. 
1st edit. 1872. Not seen. 
The second edition appeared in the same year as the first. 
Smiles (Samuel). See Edwabd (Thomas) 
Smith (Rev. Alfred Charles), 1822-98 
The Rev. A. C. Smith, M.A., of Yatesbury Rectory, Caine, 
Wiltshire, who died in 1898, is chiefly known as author of 
