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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
[WILLUGHBY 
Willis-Bund (J. W.) See Bund (J. W. Willis) 
Willmore (J. H.) 
The undermentioned little work, quoted by Kelsall 
and Munn, is all we have to the credit of this writer. The 
locality dealt with is in Hampshire. 
1874. Lecture on Birds of the Neighbourhood of Queenwood, their Nests 
and Eggs. London : 1874. 12mo, pamphlet. Not seen. 
Willsford (Thomas), cct . 1658 
The undernoted work by this author deals for the most 
part with meteorites, meteorology, and other irrelevant 
subjects ; but includes a section on Weather Prognostications 
from birds and other animals, etc., which is of interest. 
*1658. Nature’s | Secrets | or, | The Admirable and wonderfull | History 
| of the generation of Meteors. | . . . By . . . | Thomas Wills- 
ford, Gent. | [quot.] | London : Printed for Nath. Brook, at the 
Angel in | Cornhill. 1658. 
Collation — 1 vol. sm. 8vo, pp. xiv un. + pp. 200, with port. 
At pp. 132-5, “ The Weather’s Prediction by Winged Creatures.” 
Willughby (Francis), 1635-72 
Willughby, the greatest of our earlier ornithologists, was 
born in 1635, and was at first the pupil, and then the friend 
and patron, of Ray, who was his senior by some seven years. 
His family was highly connected, and he possessed competent 
means for that devotion of his life to natural history that he 
at an early period resolved upon. According to Derham, he 
and Ray agreed, before setting out on their travels, upon 
a division of labour between them : “ The province Mr. 
Willughby had taken was animals, as Mr. Ray had that of 
plants, and in these matters he was a great master, as he was 
also in plants, fossils, and, in short, the whole history of 
nature ; and in the pursuit and acquirement of this know- 
ledge he stuck neither at any labour or cost.” They visited 
in company most parts of Europe then open to British 
