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the columns of the Field for August 27 of that year, from 
which we cull the following description : — 
“ Yarrell’s grave is in the churchyard on the north side 
within a railed space allotted to his family. His tombstone 
bears the following inscription : t 
Here lie the remains of 
WILLIAM YARRELL, V.P.L.S., E.Z.S., 
of St. James’s, Westminster, 
Author of 
“ A History of British Birds ” 
and of 
“ A History of British Fishes.” 
Born June 3, 1784, 
Died Sept. 1, 1856. 
He was the survivor of twelve brothers and sisters, who, with their 
father and mother, are all placed close to this spot. 
“ first and last 
the earliest summoned and the longest spared 
are here deposited.” — W ordsworth. 
“ In St. James’s Church, Piccadilly, at the west end of the 
north aisle, his executors erected to his memory a marble 
tablet with a medallion portrait supported by two swans in 
appropriate allusion, not merely to his own love of birds, but 
to the fact of his having added a new species of swan to the 
European avifauna, which he named in honour of the cele- 
brated wood engraver Thomas Bewick. 
“ In the meeting room of the Linnean Society, Burlington 
House, hangs his portrait in oils, by Mrs. Carpenter ; but as 
this was painted in 1839 there are probably none of his 
acquaintances now living who would recognise it as a portrait 
of the man whom they knew, though many would see a good 
likeness in the frontispiece to the third edition of his British 
Fishes , published in 1859, for it was prepared from a photo- 
graph taken the year before he died. Another good likeness 
in chalk by an unknown artist is in the possession of Professor 
Newton, of Cambridge, as well as a miniature in water-colour 
by Mrs. Waterhouse Hawkins.” 
