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NORFOLK sportsmen and naturalists—and they are many—will be sure to find much to interest them in a work dealing with the fauna of their county as it was in the middle of the seventeenth century, when, as the author tells us, cranes were often seen in hard winters, while bustards were comparatively abundant, although never, perhaps, so common as is often supposed. Sir Thomas Browne, it appears, was a Norwich physician who in early life travelled much. Although not to be compared in point of interest with those of Gilbert White, his letters and notes indicate a keen and shrewd observer of natural history. A large part of the value of the work is, however, due to the editor, who is well mown for the keen interest he takes in all that concerns he natural history of the county. Not only has he leciphered with rare skill and patience a vast amount of crabbed MS., but he has contributed a series of foot-notes containing much valuable and interesting nformation.
Sir Thomas Browne's Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk.
Edited by T. Southwell. Pp. xxvi + 102. (London: Jarrold and Sons, 1902.)
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L., R. Sir Thomas Browne's Notes and Letters on the Natural History of Norfolk . Nature 65, 412 (1902). https://doi.org/10.1038/065412d0
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