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*1635. Speculum | Mundi | or | A Grlasse re- | presenting the face | of 
the World ; shewing | both that it did begin, and must also end : 
| The Manner How and time When, | being largely examined. | 
Whereunto is joyned | an Hexameron, or a serious discourse of 
the | causes, continuance, and qualities of things | in Nature ; 
occasioned as matter pertinent | to the work done in the six 
dayes of | the Worlds creation. | [Quot. 3 lines] | Printed by 
the Printers to the | Universitie of Cambridge : 1635. | 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, engr. title and letterpress title in 
woodcut border + pp. xii un. + pp. 504+ table pp. xxvi un. 
Contains at pp. 389-419 an account “ of Birds, or Fowl flying 
in the open firmament of heaven.” 
Idem. 2nd edit, enlarged. Cambridge : 1643. 1 vol. 4to. 
Idem. 3rd edit., “ much beautified and enlarged.” London : 
1665. 1 vol. 4to. [“ causes ”' misprinted “ clauses ” on title.] 
Idem. 4th edit, enlarged. Ib. : 1670. 1 vol. 4to. 
Swann (Harry Kirke), nat. 1871 
The subject of this notice was born at Malquoits, Ewhurst, 
Surrey, March 18, 1871, but conies of a Nottingham family. He 
was educated at first privately, later at the Roan School, Green- 
wich, and afterwards at Brighton under a tutor. His love of 
natural history, and especially ornithology, dates from early 
boyhood, and at the age of twenty he visited Nova Scotia 
and Eastern Canada, the observations made during this 
expedition being embodied in his Nature in Acadie (1895). 
Returning to England in 1892 he founded, and edited vols. i. 
and ii. (1892-94) of, the Naturalist's Journal , eventually con- 
tinued by Mr. S. L. Mosley. In 1893 he published his Birds 
of London , based on six or seven years’ observations in the 
London district. In 1896 followed A Concise Handbook of 
British Birds. In the same year he became reader and 
editor to the late J. C. Nimmo, and for him prepared a new 
(5th) edition of Morris’s History of British Birds and also 
supervised the reissue of Seebohm’s British Birds (1896) 
and many works in general literature. In the spring of the 
same year he had commenced (with the assistance of Messrs. 
0. V. Aplin, J. Whitaker, F. B. Whitlock, Rev. H. A. Mac- 
pherson, W. H. Heathcote and G. E. H. Barrett-Hamilton) 
the publication of The Ornithologist , the first British bird 
