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Mark Twain once famously said "there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past and can't be restored." Well, over recent years, The British Library, working with Microsoft has embarked on an ambitious programme to digitise its collection of 19th century books. There are now 65,000 titles available (that's an incredible 25 million pages) of material ranging from works by famous names such as Dickens, Trollope and Hardy as well as many forgotten literary gems , all of which can now be printed on demand and purchased right here on Amazon. Further information on The British Library and its digitisation programme can be found on The British Library website.
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1865 Excerpt: ... A CATALOGUE OF THE MORE COMMON BIRDS THAT HAVE OCCURRED IN THE BRITISH ISLES, FROM A UTILITARIAN POINT OF VIEW, WITH THEIR LOCALITIES, DEGREE OP RARITY, AND FOOD, SHEWING THEIR COMPARATIVE VALUE TO THE AGRICULTURIST AND SOCIETY IN GENERAL. Their economic value, beauty of form and color, and voice, which are indicated in three degrees A, B, C; A being the highest. Species deserving of special protection are here marked (a) before t/ie name of each bird. The observations on the food of the various birds are made in different countries, mostly where the birds are commonly found. KESTEEL. Falco tinnunculus, Linn. Europe. Ec. value, Britain B. Beauty of form and color B. Eesident continually in Britain. Food: Europe, Jan. mice, shrews. Britain, Feb. Mar. mice, shrews. France, Ap. beetles, lizards. Britain, May, cockchafers, blindworms; Ju. insects, mice; Jy. mice, reptiles, young partridges rarely; small birds rarely throughout the year. SPARROW HAWK. F. nisus, Linn. Europe generally. Ec. value, Britain B. Beauty of form and color B. Resident continually in Britain. Food: Britain, Jan. larks; Feb. moles; Ap. chickens, lizards; May, mice, young game; Ju. slugs, beetles; Jy. linnaeus stagnalis; Au. slugs, small birds. Europe, Sep. small birds, lizards; and throughout the year. aLONG EARED OWL. Strix otus, Linn. Europe, Asia, Africa, America. Ec. value, Britain A. Beauty of form and color A. Resident continually in Britain. Food: Europe, Jan. field mice. Britain, Feb. rats; Mar. moles, water rats; Ap. beetles, bats, mice. France, May, small birds, young rabbits. Germany, Ju. mice; Jy. mice, insects, bats. America, Au. mice. Britain, Sep. dormice; Oct. rats. France, Nov. slirews. aBARN OWL. S. flammea, Linn. Europe, Asia, Africa, America, Ec. value, Britain A. Beaut...
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Charles Ottley Groom Napier was born May 14, 1839 in Merchiston, Tobago, the son of Charles Edward Groom, a very wealthy sugar planter, and his wife, Ann Napier. He later moved and grew up in Sussex, England, and gained an early interest in natural history, obtaining a degree in geology.
He was most well known for his eccentric claims of ancestry. As a prominent collector Napier acquired huge collections of minerals, plants and fossils. Many of these were later sold to the Museum.
He bought James Tennant"s personal collection of fossils, which was later purchased by Robert Damon and sold to the Western Australian Museum in Perth where it remains today.
A large part of his herbarium is currently preserved in Bolton Museum. In the 1870s Napier began styling himself as the Prince of Mantua and Montferrat with subsidiary titles as prince of Ferrera, Nevers, Rethel, and Alençon.
Baron de Tobago. And master of Lennox, Kilmahew, and Merchiston.
He worked with the genealogist John O"Hart (Irish pedigrees, 1876, Volume(s) 1, p 582) and claimed that he could trace his ancestry to various European royal bloodlines or nobles through his mother Ann Napier. A further work was published in 1879 attempting to link his mother to the Duchess of Mantua and Montferrat in Italy and the Scottish Clan Napier.
Napier further claimed he could trace his ancestry back to King David. These claims however were dismissed as fabrications by most genealogists and his academic reputation was tarred by scientists since his mineral collection was registered in the name of "Exchange
Music. P of Mantua & Monferrat".
Napier however never retracted his claims of ancestry and when he died of long-standing cardiac disease on 17 January 1894 his death was registered as that of "Charles de Bourbon d"Este Paleologues Gonzaga, prince of Mantua and Montferrat". Napier read a paper entitled — "Where are the Lost Tribes of Israel" to the London Anthropological Society, in 1875. The ocean world: being a descriptive history of the sea and its living inhabitants (1868) Rambles: Lakes and Rivers (1879) in the Bible (1879).
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Later he became a prominent member of the Geological Society of London and joined the Linnean Society as well as being a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society.
