Works in Natural History, &c.

Abstract

THIS is, in several respects, a very remarkable pamphlet. It shows us, to our great gratification, that the study of Natural History is, thanks to the labours of Mr. Morris, gradually finding its way into Royal Palaces and Baronial Halls, for we learn that Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen has accepted the dedication of his “History of British Birds;” that his Excellency the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle, K.G, &c. &c., influenced probably by Her Majesty's example, has extended his patronage in a similar manner to the “Natural History of the Nests and Eggs of British Birds;” that his “British Butterflies” and “British Moths” are under the genial and aristocratic guardianship of the Honourable Mrs. Musgrave and the Right Hon. Lady Muncaster; that his “Anecdotes in Natural History,” and “Records of Animal Sagacity and Character,” are dedicated by permission to the Most Hon. the Marquis of Westminster, K.G. and the Hon. Anne Emma Caven dish; while His Grace the Archbishop of York stands sponsor to “The Difficulties of Darwinism.” Surely even in the so-called Golden Age of English literature, no author could have had the good fortune to secure so many noble patrons.

Works in Natural History, &c.

By the Rev. F. O. Morris