you. I shall be very reddie to do you service in order to your desires
And shall endeavour to procure you such animalls as I haue formerly met
with & any other not ordinary wch [shall _crossed out_] are to bee
acquired. though many of my old assistants are dead. & sometimes they
fell upon animalls, [not to bee _crossed out_] scarce to bee met with
agayne. I wish I had been acquainted with your desires 3 yeares ago. for
I had about fortie hanging up in my howse. wch the plague being at the
next doores the person intrusted in my howse, burnt or threw away. The
figure of the weasell Cray [_see Note 60_ and p. 82] was in a long paper
pasted together at the ends & I make no question you will find it
otherwise I would send another [the willick wee in _crossed out_] that
fowl wch some call willick, [_see Note 128_] wee meet with sometimes.
The last I met with was taken on the sea shoare. the head and body black
the brest inclining to black headed and billd like a crowe, leggs set
very backward wings short leggs set very backward (_sic_) that it move
overland very badly only. it may bee a kind of cornix marina. [The
latter portion very badly written and difficult to decipher.]
[_Fol. 184 verso._] That litle plant upon oyster shells [_see Note 91_]
I remember I haue seen & surely is some kind of vescaria or calicularia
of what that other [was _crossed out_] electricall body was Mr.
Boyle[129] showed [_smear_] by this time more tryall hath probably been
made, something of jet it might consist of.
[129] The Hon. Robert Boyle (1627-1691), although deeply learned in
many branches of science, was chiefly distinguished as a chemist.
He took a leading part in the founding of the Royal Society, and
was elected President in 1680, but from some conscientious scruple
did not accept the office. Naturalists are deeply indebted to him,
as he was "the first that made trial of preserving animals" in
spirit (see Grew's "Musaeum Regalis Societatis" (London, 1681), p.
58).
I thank you that you were pleased to enquire of those German gentlemen
concerning my sonne I receiued a letter lately from him he hath not
been unmindfull of the R. Society's co[=m]ds & hath been in Hungaria in
the mines of Gold, sylver & copper at Schemets, Cremitz & Neusol &
desired mee to signifie so much to Mr. Oldenberg.
[The above is hastily scrawled; it was evidently indited to Merrett, as
indicated by the reference to the German gentlemen, &c.; the date would
therefore be some time in the year 1669. Wilkin prints it in the 1836
Edition, Vol. i., p. 408, but it is not in Bohn's reprint.]
APPENDIX A.
[TWO LETTERS FROM DOCTOR CHRISTOPHER MERRETT TO SIR THOMAS BROWNE, MS.
SLOANE 1830, FOL. 1 TO 3. THEY ARE BOUND UP IN INVERSE ORDER OF DATE.]
[Reply to No. 2 in the above Series.]
[_Fol. 3._] WORTHY SR,--y^{rs} of y^e 14^{th} instant I recaeved as full
off learning in discovering so many very great curiosities as kindness
in communicating them to mee & promising y^r farther assistance. ffor
which I shall always proclame by my tongue as well as by my pen, my due
resentment & thanks.
The 2 funguses [guses _crossed out and_ i _inserted_] y^w sent y^e
figures off [_see Note 106_] are y^e finest & rarest as to their figure
I have ever seen or read of, & soe is y^r fibula marina, far surpassing
one I reacived from Cornwall much of y^e same bigness, neither of which
I find anywhere mentioned. The urtica marina minor Jonst. & physalus I
never met with, nor have bin informed off y^e canis charcharius alius
Jonst. Many of y^e Lupus piscis I have seen, & have bin informed by y^e
Kings fish monger they are taken on our coast, but was not satisfyed for
some reasons off his relation soe as to enter it into my pinax, though
tis said to bee peculiar to y^e river Albis [= Elbe] yet I thought they
might come sometimes thence to y^r coasts. Trutta marina I haue and y^e
loligo, sepia, & polypus y^e 3 sorts off y^e molles have bin found on
our western coasts which shall bee exactly distinguished--As for y^e
Salmons taken a bove London towards Richmond & nearer, & y^t in great
quantity some years they have all off them their lower jaw as y^w
observ, [_see Note 92_] & our fishermen [men _crossed out_] say they
usually wear off some part off it on y^e banks or els y^e lower would
grow into y^e upper & soe starve them as they have sometimes seen--y^w
ask whether I haue y^e mullus ruber asper, or y^e piscis Octangularis
Wormii. or y^e sea worm longer than y^e earth worms, or y^e garrulus
Argentor. or y^e duck cal'd a May chit or y^e Dor hawke. The 4 first I
haue noe account off y^e 2 later I know not especially by those names,
wee have noe hawk by y^t name [_see Note 42_] y^r account of succinum as
all y^e rest will bee registered. As for y^e Aquila Gesneri I never saw
nor heard off any such in y^e Collidge for [_fol. 3 verso_] this 25
years last past. Sr y^w are pleased to say y^w shall write more if y^w
know how not to bee surpurfluous--certainly what y^w have hitherto done
hath bin all curiosities, & I doubt not but y^w have many more by you--I
can direct y^w noe further than y^r own reason dictates to y^w. Besides
those mentioned in y^e pinax I have 100 to add, & cannot give y^w a
particular off them--whatever y^w write is either confirmative or
additional. I doe entreat this favour off y^w to inform mee fuller off
those unknown things mentioned herein, & to add y^e name page &c of y^e
Author if mentioned by any or else to give them such a latin name for
them as y^w have done by y^e fungi which may bee descriptive &
differencing off them. Sr I hope y^e publigs [_sic_] interest & y^r own
good genius will plead y^r pardon desired by
y^r humble servant
CHR. MERRETT.
_London Aug. 29. 68._
[Reply to No. 8 of the above Series.]
[_Fol. 1._] WORTHY SR,--my due thanks premised I at present acquaint y^w
y^t y^w have very well named y^e Rutilus & expressed fully y^e cours to
bee taken in y^e imposition of names viz y^e most obvious & most
peculiar difference to y^e ey or any other sens. I am farther to say y^t
y^e icon of y^e weazeling came not to my hands, pray bee pleas'd to look
amongst y^r papers perhaps it might bee laid by through some accident or
other [I have _added above_] y^e figures of y^r anas macrolophos, & of
y^e mergi cristati [_see Note 124_] & of y^e pristis y^t which came from
Cornwall was of y^e gladius, y^e name of sword fish being applied to
both of them by our nation. It seemeth by y^w y^t y^e Norwich aspredo is
not y^e Ceruna fluviatilis contrary to what Camden affirms, for y^e
rutilus mentioned in mine to y^w differs toto coelo from y^e
ceruna--The difference of y^e Elks bill by y^w signified is remarkable
to distinguish it from others of its own kind. [_See_ p. 83 _supra_.]
The crackling teal seems [clearly _crossed out_] to bee y^e same which
Dr Charleton[130] mentions in his Onomasticon under y^e name of y^e
cracker,& showing him y^r description hee acknowledged to bee y^e same,
y^e clangula I know noe more of than reading hath informed mee, a
willock I have seen brought from Greenland where they are said
exceedingly to abound, but never y^t [thought?] either of them was found
in England, & having [not _added above_] taken sufficient notice of it
y^e later, crave y^r description off both.
[130] In Charleton's "Onomasticon," at p. 99, the Cracker is called
by him, _Anas caudacuta_, and is said to be the "Gaddel" of the
London dealers in fowl. [_See Note 125._]
And now Sr since my last only 2 things remarkable haue come to my
knowledge. The one was a cake off black amber 1/6 off an inch thick &
neer a palm each way. Mr. Boyle brought it to y^e R. society to whom it
was sent from y^e Sussex shore, hee had only tryed it to its electricity
& found it answer his expectation, farther tryals will be made of it.
The second is a small plant found on oyster shells which when fresh did
perfectly represent y^e flowers off Hyacinthus botryoides, [_see Note
91_] but y^t was somewhat longer & not so much sweld out towards its
pedunculus, some of them are here inclosed. Tis doubtless a sort off
vesicaria, though much different from what y^w sent mee. Most off them
are now shrunk & y^e sides constituting y^e cavity come together &
appear only a transparent husk. One thing more I had to add (but
scarcely dare speak it out) y^t is if it would please [you _added
above_] to let it bee done without y^r charge & 2ly if it might be done
without y^r trouble, then I would beg off y^w to set some a work to
procure mee some of those rare animals &c y^w have mentioned in your
seueral Letters. My intention therein is double: first to take their
descriptions & furnish our colledge with them as curiosities, all being
lost by y^e fire this is onely wished but must not bee proposed without
y^e former limitation by y^r too much allready obliged friend & servant
_8th May '69._
CHR. MERRETT.
I met this week with some persons off quality high Germans who lately
saw y^r son & record all good things off him.
ffor Dr Browne off Norwich.
[The reply to this letter is No. IX of the above Series.]
APPENDIX B.
[MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. MS. SLOANE 1847, FOL. 56-57.]
[_See Note 51_, p. 32 _supra_.]
Praye Request Mr. Johnson to obtayne this fauor of Mr. Bacon who is
unknown to mee, to afford mee his resolution to these few queries
concerning the whale [wch _crossed out_] whereof I understand he had the
cutting up and disposure whether there were any spermacetie found, or
made out of other parts beside the head; if soe, of what parts & out of
what most: and whether any out of the meere fleshie parts whether that
wch runne from it about the shoare came out of the mouth.
[_Not signed or dated._]
REPLY.
Sr in Answer to your questions conserninge the whale, I founde noe
Sper[=m]e but in his heade and that after I had taken off his scalpe one
tonn weight [or more _written above_] of a nexuous substance, we found
in the circumference as large as a small coach wheele in the middle part
certain round pieces of Sperm as bigge as a mans fist some as large as
eggs and on the out side of the said rounds, flakes as large as a mans
head in forme like hony combs being very white and full of oyle. And
that Sp. wch was cast upon the shore I doe conceive came out of his
nostrells. thus much ffrom him who doth remayne Sir your humble Servant,
Arthur Bacon Yarmouth 10th May 1652.
BROWNE TO DUGDALE ON CERTAIN FOSSIL BONES.
["EASTERN COUNTIES COLLECTANEA," pp. 193-195].
The letter referred to in the foot-note on page 33, written by
Sir Thomas Browne to Dugdale, and formerly in the possession of
the late Mr. Arthur Preston of Norwich, whose collection of
manuscripts was dispersed by auction in August, 1888, was
printed in a brief-lived and little-known local publication,
entitled the "Eastern Counties Collectanea" (1872-3), at page
193. In this letter occurs a passage which confirms the doubt
expressed as to the Whales which had young ones after coming on
shore at Hunstanton being Sperm Whales. They are expressly said
to have been of that sort "which seamen call a Grampus," and as
Sir Nicholas le Strange, in a MS. preserved in the Muniment room
at Hunstanton, applies the name "Grampus" to an undoubted
specimen of _Hyperoodon rostratus_ (as shown both by his
description and outline sketch) which came ashore there in the
year 1700, I have little doubt that the Cetaceans in question
belonged to that species and not to _Physeter macrocephalus_.
This letter is interesting also as filling a gap in Wilkin's
series and I therefore reproduce it, omitting only occasional
learned digressions which do not affect the subject. The
original not being available, I have used the copy in the
"Collectanea" before mentioned.
Dugdale, in November, 1658, and again later, had written to
Browne, sending him a bone of a "fish which was taken up by Sir
Robert Cotton, in digging a pond at the skirt of Conington
downe," and asking his opinion thereof. (Wilkin, i., pp. 385 and
390.)
To the first of these letters Browne replied, under date of the
6th December, 1658, "I receaued the bone of the fish, and shall
giue you some account of it when I have compared it with
another bone which is not by mee" (op. cit. p. 387). The letter
which follows and which was unknown to Wilkin supplies this
information.
[p. 193.] "Sr I cannot sufficiently admire the ingenious industry of Sr
Robert Cotton in preserving so many things of rarity and observation nor
commend your own enquiries for the satisfaction of such particulars. The
petrified bone you sent me, which with divers others was found
underground, near Cunnington, seems to be the vertebra, spondyle or
rackbone of some large fish, and no terrestrious animal as some upon
sight conceived, as either of Camel, rhinoceros, or elephant, for it is
not perforated and hollow but solid according to the spine of fishes in
whom the spinal marrow runs in a channel above these solid racks, or
spondiles.
"It seems much too big for the largest Dolphins, porpoises, or sword
fishes, and too little for a true or grown whale, but may be the bone of
some big cetaceous animal, as particularly of that which seamen call a
Grampus; a kind of small whale, whereof some come short, some exceed
twenty foot. And not only whales but Grampusses have been taken in this
Estuarie or mouth of the fenland rivers. And about twenty years ago four
were run ashore near Hunstanton and two had young ones after they came
to land. But whether this fish were of the longitude of twenty foot (as
is conceived) some doubt may be made for this bone containeth little
more than an inch in thickness, and not three inches in breadth so that
it might have a greater number thereof than is easily allowable to make
out that longitude. For of the whale which was cast upon our coast about
six years ago a vertebra or rackbone still preserved, containeth a foot
in breadth and nine inches in depth, yet the whale with all advantages
but sixty-two foot in length. [p, 194.] We are not ready to believe
that, wherever such relics of fish or sea animals are found, the sea
hath had its course. And Goropius Becanus[131] long ago could not digest
that conceit when he found great numbers of shells upon the highest
Alps. For many may be brought unto places where they were not first
found.
[131] This seems to refer to the "De Gigantibus eorumque reliquiis"
of J. van Gorp, Jean Becan, or Joannes Goropius (as the name is
variously given in the "Biographie Universelle" (b. 1518, d. 1572),
and apparently published after the Author's death by Jean
Chassanion, 8vo, Basileae, 1580, and another edition in 1587. See
Brit. Mus. Cat.; but I have not seen the book.
"Some bones of our whale were left in several fields which when the
earth hath obscured them, may deceive some hereafter, that the sea hath
come so high. In northern nations where men live in houses of fishbones
and in the land of the Icthiophagi near the Red sea where mortars were
made of the backbones of whales, doors of their jaws, and arches of
their ribs, when time hath covered them they might confound after
discoverers....
"For many years great doubt was made concerning those large bones found
in some parts of England, and named Giants' bones till men [p. 195]
considered they might be the bones of elephants brought into this island
by Claudius, and perhaps also by some succeeding emperors [then follow
other ancient examples of the finding 'elephants bones' in various
countries attributed to similar modes of introduction]. But many things
prove obscure in subterraneous discovery....
"In some chalk pits about Norwich many stag's horns are found of large
beams and branches, the solid parts converted into a chalky and fragile
substance, the pithy part sometimes hollow and full of brittle earth and
clay. In a churchyard of this city an oaken billet was found in a
coffin. About five years ago an humourous man of this country after his
death and according to his own desire was wrap't up in a horned hide of
an ox and so buried.[T] Now when the memory hereof is past how this may
hereafter confound the discoverers and what connjectures will arise
thereof it is not easy to conjecture.
[T] Richard Ferrer, of Thurne, by his will, proved about 1654,
directed that his "dead body be handsomely trussed up in a black
bullock's hide, and be decently buried in the Churchyard of
Thurne."--"Norfolk Archaeology," v., p. 212.
Sr Your servant to my power,
THO. BROWNE."
This is endorsed "Sr Thomas Browne's discourse about the Fish bone found
at Conington Com. Hunt, Shown, Dr. Tanner."
APPENDIX C.
[SLOANE MS. ADDITIONAL 5233, LARGE FOLIO, IS A VOLUME LABELLED "DR. EDW.
BROWN'S DRAWINGS."]
"Some original drawing of Towns, Castles, Antiquities, Medals
&c. by Dr. Edward Browne in his Travels & presented by his
Father Sir Thomas Browne. Who hath write upon sev^{ll} of them
what they are."
The above is the inscription written on the fly-leaf of this volume,
which I hoped might have contained some drawings of birds or fishes by
Sir Thomas Browne, but there is nothing in it of interest from a Natural
History point of view. In Wilkin's Catalogue of the MSS. (Vol. iv., p.
476) it is described as "a collection of very curious drawings (some
coloured) of public buildings, habits, _fishes_, mines, rocks, tombs,
and other antiquities, observed by Sir Thos. and Dr. Edward Browne in
their travels," but there are no fishes, birds, or other animals in the
volume.
APPENDIX D.
Draft of a letter from Sir Thomas Browne to his daughter
Elizabeth, enclosing two pictures of a Stork. This and the next
letter are in the Bodleian Library (MS. Rawl. D. cviii.)
[_Fol. 70._] This is a picture of the stork [_see Note 14_] I mentiond
in my last. butt it is different from the co[=m]on stork by red lead
colourd leggs and bill[132] and the feet hath not vsuall sharp poynted
clawes butt resembling a mans nayle, such as Herodotus discribeth the
white Ibis of AEgypt to haue. The ends of the wings are black & when shee
doth not spred them they make all the lower part of the back looke
black, butt the fethers on the back vnder them are white as also the
tayle. it fed upon snayles & froggs butt a toad being offered it would
not touch it. the tongue is about half an inch long. the quills of the
wing are as bigge or bigger then a swans quills. it was shott by the
seaside & the wing broake. Some there were who tooke it for an euell
omen saying If storks come ouer into England, god send that a
co[=m]onwealth doth not come after.[U]
[132] Browne evidently was not very familiar with the Stork, which
is not surprising, seeing that it is a very rare bird in Britain;
it may be that he had only seen the bird in its immature stage, for
the "red-lead" hue of the legs is very characteristic of the adult
bird. [_See also Note 14_, p. 10.]
[U] In reference to the Dutch fable of those days that Storks would
only inhabit republican countries.
That picture with the lesser head is the better.
MS. RAWL. D. cviii.
Draft of a letter containing further particulars with regard to
the Stork. There is nothing to indicate to whom it was
addressed.
[_Fol. 77._] A kind of stork was shott in the wing by the sea neere
Hasburrowe & brought aliue vnto mee. it was about a yard high red lead
coloard leggs and bill. the clawes resembling human nayles such as
Herodotus describeth in the white Ibis of AEgypt The lower parts of the
wings are black which gathered up makes the lower part of back looke
black butt the tayle vnder them is white as the other part of the body.
it fed readily upon snayles & froggs, butt a toad being offered it would
not touch it: the tongue very short [not _crossed out_] an inch long. it
makes a clattering noyse by flapping one bill agaynst the other somewhat
like the platea or shouelard.[V] the quills [about _crossed out_] of the
biggnesse of swans bills [_sic_ quills?] when it swallowed a frogge it
was sent downe into the stomak by the back side of the neck as was
perceaued upon swallowing. I could not butt take notice of the conceitt
of some who looked upon it as an ill omen saying if storks come ouer
into England, pray god a co[=m]on wealth do not come after.
[V] The Spoonbill.
In addition to these letters there are in the Bodleian Library a
letter from Elizabeth Browne to her brother, describing the
above-mentioned Stork, and desiring him to keep one of the two
pictures himself, and to give the other to his sister Fairfax
(MS. Rawl. D. 108, fol. 71), and a draft of a letter from Sir
Thomas Browne about a remarkable fly (_see ante_ p. 68 _and Note
110_), which offended the cattle extraordinarily, found at
Horsey Marshes (MS. Rawl. D. 108, fol. 103). There is also (MS.
Rawl. D. 391, fol. 55) a letter from Sir Hamon le Strange to Sir
T. B., dated Jan. 16, 1653. About half this letter is printed by
Wilkin, i., pp. 369-70. He mentions towards the end that he
sends certain observations on T. B.'s "Enquiries into Common
Errors," at page "27 thereof I write of a whale cast upon my
shoare." This criticism is now separated from the letter, which
originally covered it, but happily is preserved in the British
Museum, MS. Sloane, 1839. fols. 104-145.
INDEX.
A.
Acorus verus, 58
Acus, Needlefish, 40, 41, 66
Adders, 55
Addercock, 66
Alcedo ispida, 21
Allis Shad, 42 (note)
Alni carptor, 76
Amber, 63, 88
Alosa, 42
Anas arctica, 17, 73
Anas macrolophos, 82, 88
Anas alis oculatis, 80
Anatula, 76, 79
Anglorum, Sand Eel, 44
Apiaster, 73
Aphia cobites, 42
Appendix A., 86
Appendix B., 90
Appendix C., 95
Appendix D., 96
Aquila Gesneri, 3, 67, 87
Ardea stellaris, 17
Arcuata, 23
Armed Bull-head, 41 (note), 62, 65, 87
Avicula Maialis, 19, 66
Ascidians, 50 (note)
Aselli, 43
Asprage, 45
Aspredo, 53, 83, 88
Astacus, 46, 57
Atherine?, 42 (note), 73
Auk, Little?, 79 (note)
Avis pugnax, 20
Avis trogloditica, 26
Avocet, 24, 67
B.
Balani, 48
Banstickle 44
Barbel, 53
Barker, 24, 67, 73, 76
Barnacle shell, 48
Barnacle Goose, 12
Bargander, 13, 73
Bass, 43
Bearded Tit, 26 (note)
Bee-bird, 73, 76
Betulae Carptor, 29, 73, 76
Birdcatcher, 25
Birds found in Norfolk, 1
Birds number of species, 32
Bittern, 17
Black Grouse, 28
Black Heron, 21
Black-tailed Godwit, 24 (note)
Bleak, 43, 53, 78, 81
Bones, Fossil, 91
Boyle, Robert, 85
Bream, 52
Brent Goose, 12
Brill, Bret, 45
Brittle Stars, 49
Browne, Sir Thomas--
Attitude towards witchcraft, xi. (note)
Collection of Eggs, 10 (note)
Correspondents, viii.
Drawings lost, xxv.
Editions of his Collected Works, xviii.
Estimation in which he was held, xvii.
Letters to Merrett, xxii., 57
Letters to Dugdale, 91
Notes on Certain Birds, xx., 1
Notes on Certain Fishes, xx., 31
Observations on Migration, xvi., 2 (note)
Originality, xi., xvi.
Purpose for which written, xxi., 2
State of Natural Science in his day, x., xiv.
Bull-head, Armed, 41 (note), 62, 65, 87
Burbot, 54
Bustard, 18
Butcher bird, 25
Butt, 45
Buzzard, Bald, 4, 56
Buzzard, Gray, 4
C.
Canis (Dog-fish), 36
Canis carcharias, 37 (note), 61, 86
Caprimulgus, 26, 63, 66, 87
Cancellus, 48, 62
Carcinus maenas, 46
Carp, 55
Certhia, 80
Ceruna, 53, 88
Chad, 42
Chipper, 29, 73
Chock, 26
Chough, 27
Chub, 53
Churre, 19 (note), 20
Ciconia, 10, 64, 96
Cirripeds, 48
Clams, 47
Clangula, 83, 88
Coal-fish, 43
Coble bird, 25
Cockles, 47
Cods, 43
Conger, 44
Coot, 15
Corculum, 55, 56
Cormorant, 11
Cormorant, Rock, 11
Corallines, 80
Cotta Anglorum, 79, 81
Cottus scorpius, 42
Corvus marinus, 11
Crabs, 46
Crane, 5
Crawfish, 53
Crossbill, 25
Crow, 27
Crow, Hooded, 25
Cuckoo, 20
Cuckoo Mate, 22 (note)
Culex marinus, 99
Curlew, 23
Curlew, Stone, 24
Cuttle fish, 45, 62
Cyclas, 55 (note)
D.
Dab, 45 (note)
Dabchick, 13
Dace, 52
Dentalia, 47, 73, 77
Divers, 8 (note)
Dog-fish, 37
Dog-Whelk, 47 (note)
Dolphin, 34
Dorhawk, 26, 63, 66, 87
Dory, 41
Dotterel, Land, 19
Dotterel, Sea, 19, 73, 76, 80
Draco minor, 42 (note), 73
Dragon fly, 55 (note)
Draw Water, 28
Ducks, Wild, 13, 13 (note), 88
Duck, Golden-eye, 83
Duck, Tufted, 82
Dunlin, 19
E.
Eagles, 3, 67, 78, 87
Echinus, 48
Eels, 54
Eels, Conger, 44
Eels, Sand, 44
Eelpout, 54
Elke, 7, 78, 80, 83, 88
Erythropus, 19
F.
Faber marinus, 41
Fanago, 51, 74
Father Lasher, 42 (note)
Fen Cricket, 55 (note), 56
Fibula marina, 50, 61, 86
Finches, 29
Fishing Frog, 38, 64
Fishes found in Norfolk, 31
Fishes number of species, 32
Flat-fish, 45
Flies, 67, 71, 97
Fly-catcher, 73 (note), 76
Forficula, 55 (note), 56
Fucus marinus, 71, 75
Fulica Cotta, 14
Fungi, various, 60, 61, 86
Funduli fluviatiles, 54
Funduli marini, 42
G.
Gallinula aquatica, 15
Gannet, 7, 13
Gammarus, 53
Garfish, 40, 66
Garrulus Bohemicus, 68
Garrulus Argentoratensis, 30, 63, 67, 87
Geese, 12, 13
Gladius, 36, 64, 88
Glot, Eel, 54
Gnatts or Knots, 19
Goatsucker, 26, 63, 66, 87
Gobies, 42 (note)
Godwit, 19, 24
Gold-crested Wren, 29 (note), 76
Golden Eagle, 3 (note), 67
Golden-eye Duck, 84 (note), 88
Goldfinch, 29
Goosander, 13, 72, 83 (note)
Goodyer, John, 59
Grampus, 33, 92
Great Northern Diver, 8
Green Plover, 19 (note), 20
Grey Plover, 20
Grebe, G. Crested, 13
Grebe, Little, 13
Grouse, Black, 28
Gryllotalpa, 55 (note), 56
Gudgeon, 54
Guillemot, 84 (note), 88
Gulls, 8, 9, 10
Gurnards, 39
Gurney, Anna, xx.
H.
Haddock, 43
Hard-worm, 55, 56
Harriers, 4, 5 (note)
Hawfinch, 25
Hermit Crabs, 48
Herons, 17
Heron, Black, 22
Heron, Purple, 22 (note)
Heathpoult, 28
Herring, 39
Hippolyte varians, 53
Hirundo marina, Sea Swallow, 10
Hirudines marini, Sea Leeches, 50
Horse-leeches, 55 (note), 56
Horse Mackerel, 39
Hobby, 78
Hobby-bird, 22
Hoopoe, 23, 67
Hooded Crow, 26
How, Dr. William, 59 (note)
Hydrocantharus, 55 (note), 56
Hydrozoa, 70
J.
Jackdaw, 27
Jelly-fish, 50, 61, 78