NOTICES OF ESSEX ORNITHOLOGISTS. 13
been a very good observer and a skilled taxidermist. In later life
he returned to Norfolk, where he died. The late Mr. Henry
Stevenson has published a brief, but enthusiastic, obituary notice of
him (34. 3775).
DOUBLEDAY, Edward (1811—1849), was the younger
and only brother of Henry Doubleday (q.v.), and was born at
Epping. Like his brother Henry, he seems early to have taken up
the study of Natural History, for in 1832, when only just of age, he
published a paper on "Stygia" in the Magazine of Natural History,
and in the following year, in conjunction with his friend, Edward
Newman, he contributed an account of an "Entomological Ex-
cursion in North Wales " to the Entomological Magazine. In 1835
he visited the United States, where he remained two years, returning
with large and valuable entomological collections, which were pre-
sented to the British and other Museums. He laboured hard to
obtain the appointment of naturalist to the ill-fated Niger Expedition,
but was, fortunately, unsuccessful. He afterwards accepted a post at
the British Museum, where he had charge of the Entomological
Collections, which he brought to a state of great perfection. This
appointment he held until his death, which took place at his house in
Harrington Square, on December 14, 1849, at which time he was
secretary to the Entomological Society. His contributions to science
were almost wholly entomological. Of the 29 papers enumerated as
by him in the Royal Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers, all, with
one exception, have entomological titles, though one, on the
"Entomology of the Epping District" (15), treats also of its
ornithology.
DOUBLEDAY, Henry* (1808—1875), was bom on
July 1, 1808 (not 1809, as has been stated) at Epping, where his
father, Benjamin Doubleday, one of the principal tradesmen in the
town, had long carried on a general grocery, hardware, and provision
business. He was elder and only brother to Edward Doubleday
(q.v.). Both the brothers in after life became distinguished as natural-
ists, though their tastes in this direction do not seem to have been
inherited from their parents. Their keen interest in natural science
was probably aroused by their surroundings during boyhood, the
ancient forests of Epping and Hainault being then in close proximity
to the little town.
* The following information is partly copied from a biographical notice which I contributed to
the Imperial Dictionary cf National Biography.