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EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693–1773)

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EDWARDS, See also:GEORGE (1693–1773) , See also:English naturalist, was See also:born at See also:Stratford, See also:Essex, on the 3rd of See also:April 1693. In his See also:early years he travelled extensively over See also:Europe, studying natural See also:history, and gained some reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds. In 1733, on the recommendation of See also:Sir Hans See also:Sloane, he was appointed librarian to the Royal See also:College of Physicians in See also:London. In 1743 he published the first See also:volume of his History of Birds, the See also:fourth volume of which appeared in 1751, and three supplementary volumes, under the See also:title Gleanings of Natural History, were issued in 1758, 176o and 1764. The two See also:works contain engravings and descriptions of more than 600 subjects in natural history not before described or delineated. He likewise added a See also:general See also:index in See also:French and English, which was afterwards supplied with Linnaean names by See also:Linnaeus himself, with whom he frequently corresponded. About 1764 he retired to Plaistow, Essex, where he died on the 23rd of See also:July 1773. He also wrote Essays of Natural History (1770) and Elements of Fossilogy (1776).

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