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THE figure of the late President of the British A Ornithologists' Union, one or the earliest supporters of the Ibis, seen as sketched unconsciously by himself in the extracts from private correspondence and diaries given in Mr. Trevor? Utye's beautifully got up and illustrated volume, and in the memoir published a little earlier by a sister, is very attractive and very pathetic-the bodily presentment of the fascination of wild nature triumphant over pain.
Lord Lilford on Birds. Being a Collection of Informal and Unpublished Writings by the late President of the British Ornithologists' Union. With contributed Papers upon Falconry and Otter Hunting, his favourite Sports.
Edited by Aubys Trevor Battye, &c., Member of the British Ornithologists' Union, and illustrated by Archibald Thorburn. Pp. xvii + 312. (London: Hutchinson and Co., 1903.) Price 16s. net.
Lord Lilford.
Thomas Littleton, Fourth Baron, F.Z.S., President of the British Ornithologists' Union. A Memoir by his Sister. With an Introduction by the Bishop of London. Illustrations by Thorburn and Others, and a Portrait in Photogravure. (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1900.)
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PIGOTT, T. The Late Lord Lilford . Nature 67, iii–iv (1903). https://doi.org/10.1038/067iiia0x
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