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GEORGE EDWARDS (1693–1773)

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Originally appearing in Volume V09, Page 2 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GEORGE EDWARDS (1693–1773)  ,
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English naturalist, was born at Stratford, Essex, on the 3rd of
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April 1693 . In his early years he travelled extensively over
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Europe, studying natural
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history, and gained some reputation for his coloured drawings of animals, especially birds . In 1733, on the recommendation of
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Sir Hans Sloane, he was appointed librarian to the Royal College of Physicians in
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London . In 1743 he published the first
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volume of his History of Birds, the
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fourth volume of which appeared in 1751, and three supplementary volumes, under the title Gleanings of Natural History, were issued in 1758, 176o and 1764 . The two
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works contain engravings and descriptions of more than 600 subjects in natural history not before described or delineated . He likewise added a general
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index in French and English, which was afterwards supplied with Linnaean names by
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Linnaeus himself, with whom he frequently corresponded . About 1764 he retired to Plaistow, Essex, where he died on the 23rd of
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July 1773 . He also wrote Essays of Natural History (1770) and Elements of Fossilogy (1776) .

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