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Talbot (William), JL 1845-79 
William Talbot, who resided at Mount Pleasant, 
Wakefield, where he was still living in 1879, states in his 
preface to the undernoted list that he was “ greatly indebted 
to numerous gentlemen and friends . . . who have kindly 
given me free access to their valuable collections and have 
furnished me with much information.” He would seem, 
however, from his correspondence (some of which, together 
with the copy of the Birds of Wakefield , from which the colla- 
tion below appended is taken, is in the Westfield Place 
Library) to have been a capable ornithologist. 
1877. The Birds of Wakefield, with particulars of the occasional visits 
of rare species and of those that have been observed to breed in 
the neighbourhood from 1845 to 1876. Huddersfield : 1877. 
Collation — 1 vol. 8vo, pp. iv + pp. 3-33 + 4 pp. poem inscribed 
to the author. 
Reprinted from the Naturalist for 1875-76 (vol. i. pp. 65-8,, 
81-4, 99-103, 120-24, 147-51, 165-6 ; vol. ii. pp. 5-7, 81-3). 
Tate (G.). See Embleton (R. C.) 
Taylor (John Ellor), 1837-95 
This popular natural history writer was born at 
Levenshulme, near Manchester, September 21, 1837, being 
the son of William Taylor, a foreman in a Lancashire cotton 
factory. He was entirely self-educated, having commenced 
life as a store-boy at the L.N.W.R. locomotive works at 
Longsight. In 1863 he obtained a position as sub-editor 
on the Norwich Mercury , and subsequently became editor 
of the Norwich People's Journal. His leisure was devoted 
to scientific study and lecturing, and in 1864, with John 
Gunn, he founded the Norwich Geological Society, while 
in 1872 he was appointed Curator of the Ipswich Corporation 
Museum. He became E.G.S. in 1869 and F.L.S. in 1873, 
and was editor for twenty years from 1872 onwards of 
Hardwicke's Science Gossip, and also author of a number of 
small popular works on natural history. Although possessed 
