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Gmlielmum Turnerum, artium & Me- | dicinse doctorem. | 
Colonise excudebat loan. Gymnicus, | Anno m.d.xlxiii. 
Collation— 1 vol. sm. 8vo, pages unnumbered (157). 
In 1823 a reprint of the above was issued by Dr. George 
Thackeray, of Cambridge [ cf . infra, Webb (W. M.)], which is 
probably as rare as the original. 
In 1903 Mr. A. H. Evans, of Cambridge, published a reprint 
with full translation, notes, etc., 1 vol. 8vo. 
Turton (William), 1762-1835 
Turton is cliiefly remembered by bis translation of 
Gmelin’s edition of Linnaeus, and also bis works on British 
concbology. He was born at Olveston, Glos., May 21, 1762, 
being the fifth child of William Turton, solicitor, of that 
town. He was educated at Oriel College, Oxford, graduating 
B.A., February 3, 1785, proceeding M.A. February 22, 1791, 
and M.B. on July 16 of the same year. He commenced to 
practise in Swansea, but devoted, it is said, more than half 
his leisure time to the study of Natural History, especially 
conchology. He married a Miss Salmon in 1797, and had a 
son and three daughters. In 1809 he was elected Fellow of 
the Linnean Society. Later he lived for some time in Dublin, 
then at various places in Devonshire, and died at Bideford, 
December 28, 1835. His collection of shells subsequently 
passed into the hands of Dr. J. Gwyn Jeffreys, and is now 
(with the Jatter’s own collection) in the U.S. Nat. Mus. at 
Washington. 
1807. British Fauna, | Containing | a compendium | of | The Zoology | 
of the | British Islands : | Arranged according to the | Linnean 
System. By W. Turton, M.D.F.L.S. | Vol. I. | Including the 
Classes | Mammalia, Birds, Amphibia, | Fishes, and Worms. | 
[quotation from Linnaeus] Swansea. | Printed by J. Evans, Wind- 
Street. | 1807. 
Collation— 1 vol. 1 2mo, pp. 230 + pp. viii, Index and “ Additions 
and Corrections.” 
Birds treated of pp. 18-77, comprising 294 species. 
“ This author’s incompetent performances, etc.” Cf. Coues, 
p. 373. 
[ca. 1810.] [With Kingston (J. F.).] 
The | Natural History | of the District of | Teignmouth, Dawlish | 
