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A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF 
At the end is a list of British birds, with their names m English, 
French, German, and Latin, printed on one side of the paper 
only. This comprises pp. 177-215, Birds of Britain ; pp. 215-29, 
Birds not strictly British. 
1837. Ornithological Notes. ( Naturalist [Maund & Hall’s], i. pp. 182-4.) 
Wood (Rev. John Geokge), 1827-89 
This famous writer on popular natural history was the 
eldest son of John Freeman Wood, surgeon, and was born in 
London, July 21, 1827. He was only half English by 
parentage, his mother being Juliana Lisetta Wintz. His 
father having removed to Oxford in 1 830, he led an outdoor 
life which gave full scope to his natural history tastes. In 
1838 he went to Ashbourne Grammar School, Derbyshire, 
where his uncle was master, and in due course to Merton 
College, Oxford (M.A. 1851). He was ordained in 1854, but 
resigned his Oxford curacy in the same year, and although 
holding several later appointments of a temporary nature, he 
devoted the rest of his life mainly to literature. His output 
of works was considerable, but they contain little on our 
subject. He was also a very popular lecturer. He died while 
on a lecturing tour at Coventry, March 3, 1889, and was 
buried in that town. His Illustrated Natural History (5 vols. 
roy. 8vo) and his Homes without Hands (1 vol. 8vo) are his 
best-known works. He edited an edition of White’s Selborne , 
1854, early editions of which are rare. For further particulars 
of Wood’s life, vide Diet. Nat . Biog. 
1854. (Edited by.) The Natural History of Selborne. 
See White (Gilbert). 
*1869. Illustrated Natural History of Birds, with numerous illustrations 
by Wolf, Weir, Zwecker, Coleman, Neale, Harvey, etc. London : 
1869. 
Collation — 1 vol. roy. 8vo. (Pub. 18s.) A general ornithology, 
including British birds. 
Idem. Another edit. Boy. 8vo. n.d. 
1885. Half Hours in Field and Forest. Chapters in Natural History. 
London (Isbister) : 1885. 
Collation — 1 vol. post 8vo, pp. xi +pp. 371, with full-page and 
other ill. 
Includes much matter on the birds of the seasons, with figs. 
