Part 14

THE LATE REV. RICHARD LUBBOCK, M.A., Rector of Eccles.

NEW EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS FROM UNPUBLISHED MANUSCRIPTS OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES BY THOMAS SOUTHWELL, F.Z.S., Hon. Sec. to the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society; Author of “Seals & Whales of the British Seas;” ALSO A MEMOIR BY HENRY STEVENSON, F.L.S.; AND AN APPENDIX CONTAINING NOTES ON HAWKING IN NORFOLK BY ALFRED NEWTON, M.A., F.R.S., &c. AND ON THE DECOYS, REPTILES, SEA FISH, LEPIDOPTERA, AND BOTANY OF THE COUNTY.

OPINIONS OF THE PRESS.

“Lubbock’s volume, written five-and-thirty years ago, has long been out of print and scarce; and the reliable nature of the information which it affords has for some time rendered a new edition a desideratum with naturalists. A new edition has at length appeared, edited by Mr. Thomas Southwell, of Norwich, who has made some valuable additions of his own in the shape of notes on the existing mammalia of Norfolk, and on decoys past and present in the county, prefaced by a memoir of the author by Mr. Henry Stevenson, and supplemented by some interesting notes on Hawking in Norfolk, from the pen of Professor Newton.”--The Field.

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“In addition to the intrinsic merits of the book, of which we can personally speak in the superlative degree as one of the most pleasantly written of the many pleasant natural history books our language is so rich in, describing, as it does, the ‘Broad District’--a country unlike any other part of England, and a very paradise to the botanist, entomologist, and ornithologist--this new edition is edited by Mr. Thomas Southwell, the active Secretary of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists’ Society, whose full and accurate knowledge of the natural history of Norfolk better fits him for the task than any other man we know of.”--Science Gossip.

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“While Mr. Lubbock’s personal observations were chiefly directed to the neighbourhood of the Broads, the editor has endeavoured to make the work as comprehensive in its scope as possible, and he includes the district known as Lothingland, between Lowestoft and Yarmouth, which, though in Suffolk, belongs geographically to Norfolk.”--Midland Naturalist.

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“We promise to those who have never yet read this book, a rare treat from its perusal.”--Zoologist.

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“We can scarcely speak too highly of the way in which this volume has been ‘got up,’ and the publishers have added such a map as has never yet been executed of this county, showing, as it does, not only the rivers and broads, and other principal pieces of water, but the sites of heronries and decoys (used or disused), gulleries, and other localities, having a special interest for Naturalists.”--Norfolk Chronicle.

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“The ‘Fauna’ is a book which everyone should read who desires to know something of the natural history of Norfolk.”--Norfolk News.

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“Absolutely reliable and authoritative as a work of reference, and invaluable to every naturalist and ornithologist.”--Live Stock Journal.

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Rambles of a Naturalist

EGYPT AND OTHER COUNTRIES,

WITH AN ANALYSIS OF THE CLAIMS OF CERTAIN FOREIGN BIRDS TO BE CONSIDERED BRITISH, AND OTHER ORNITHOLOGICAL NOTES.

BY J. H. GURNEY, JUN., F.Z.S.

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FOOTNOTES

Dr. Robert Brown on the ‘Seals of Greenland.’ Reprinted, with additions, in the ‘Manual and Instructions for the Arctic Expedition, 1875,’ from the Proc. Zool. Soc., 1868, pp. 405-440.

Land and Water, August 26th, 1875.

Dr. Brown’s ‘Seals of Greenland,’ Proc. Zool. Soc., June, 1868, reprinted in the ‘Arctic Manual,’ p. 67.

‘History of North American Pinnipeds,’ by Joel Asaph Allen. U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey of the Territories, Miscellaneous Publications, No. 12, Washington Government Printing Office, 1880.