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ing in 1856 to Sweden, and taking up his residence at Gardijo, 
near Carlstad, from whence he went in 1862 to Lapland for a 
spring and summer, the results of which expedition are 
narrated in one of his best-known works, A Spring and 
Summer in Lapland (1864 : and a reissue with col. plates). 
His Swedish experiences are narrated in Ten Years in Sweden 
(1865), a work which contains a very good account of the 
birds of Sweden. He also wrote Sporting Sketches and Bush 
Wanderings of a Naturalist. 
He died in England November 16, 1865, and was buried 
at Crowhurst, Surrey. 
1859. Comparative List of the Birds of Scandinavia and Great Britain, 
1859. Carlstad : 1859. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 4to, pp. 18. Printed in double columns, 
Swedish and English. 
Whitaker (Joseph), nat. 1850 
Mr. Whitaker, of Rainworth Lodge, near Mansfield, who 
may justly be termed the most noted ornithologist of his 
county, having made the birds of Nottinghamshire his 
special study for over forty years, was born at Ramsdale on 
July 12, 1850. His father, Joseph Whitaker, who died in 
1874, was one of the finest all-round sportsmen of his day, 
and an account of him will be found in Ditchfield’s Old 
English Country Squires , 1912 (pp. 180-4). 
Rainworth Lodge, which stands on ground formerly part 
of Sherwood Forest, was first built about the end of the 
eleventh century for one of the King’s Foresters, but the 
portion of this date has disappeared, although the Tudor 
part is still existing. Nature made the spot a paradise for 
birds, and its owner has for many years striven to improve 
on Nature by making it a sanctuary for them, and how he has 
succeeded is shown by the multitude of birds about the place, 
both on the lake before the house and in the beautifully 
timbered grounds in which over 300 nesting boxes have been 
constructed or set up. The waterfowl on Rainworth Water, 
as the lake is called, are a great feature of the place. Here 
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