NOTICES OF ESSEX ORNITHOLOGISTS. 25
is no copy in the British Museum. Several extracts from it appear
in the following pages. W. D. King also assisted in establishing the
Sudbury Museum, and took a lively interest in it until the date of its
dispersion in 1872. He was throughout life a member of the Society
of Friends. He was brother-in-law to Mr. Jonathan Grubb (p. 22)
and first cousin to Edward and Henry Doubleday, of Epping (p. 13),
all ardent Essex naturalists. He died at Sudbury on the 15th of
November, 1870, aged sixty-nine years.
LAVER, Henry, M.R.C.S., L.S.A., F.L.S., F.S.A., &c,
of Colchester, was born at Paglesham, and was educated at Had-
leigh, Essex, and St. Thomas' Hospital. He came to Colchester
to practise in 1857, and is now senior surgeon to the Essex and
Colchester Hospital. In November, 1885-86, he filled the office of
Mayor of Colchester. He is the author of the Mammals of Essex
(43. ii. 157) and of a paper on the Land and Fresh-Water Shells
of the Colchester District (43. ii. SS), and has kindly given much
valuable help during the preparation of this work.
LEGGE, Capt. W. Vincent, R.A., is an excellent or-
nithologist. He is the author of a History of the Birds of Ceylon
(Lond. 4to, 1237 pp.), a magnificent work with coloured plates. He
is a Fellow of the Linnean and Zoological Societies, a member of
the British Ornithologists' Union and other scientific bodies. In
1865 and 1866 he was stationed at Shoebury, where he made many
observations on birds, which are described in three most interesting
papers contributed by him to the Zoologist, entitled " Notes on the
Nesting of Birds in the Flat Lands of Essex" (23. 9836), "Ornitho-
logical Notes from South-east Essex " (34. 89), and " Oological Notes
from South-east Essex " (34. 599).
LISTER, Arthur, J.P., F.L.S., &c, of Leytonstone, takes
a considerable interest in Natural History, and has aided to some
extent in connection with this work.
MACLEAN, Allan, M.D. (1796-1869), of Colchester, "was
born at Sudbury, where his father, Sir Lachlan Maclean, was in
practice as a physician. At an early age he was sent to the Gram-
mar School at Bury St. Edmunds, passing from thence to Cambridge,
where he took the degree of Doctor of Medicine. He began prac-
tice in Colchester, where he resided for half a century, and he held
the appointment of physician to the Essex and Colchester Hospital