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Excerpt from A Handbook to the Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales The following Biographies are additional to those appearing in The Vertebrate Fauna of North Wales. Smith. - 1823-1838. Henry Ecroyd Smith was born at Doncaster, 28th August, 1823, and died at Middleham, Yorks, in 1888. He went to Victoria in 1852, but appears to have lived the greater part of his later years in the neighbourhood of Liverpool. He contributed to the Flora of Liverpool, 1872, and wrote various papers and local natural history notes for local periodicals. In the Liverpool Naturalists' Journal, 1866, he published a paper entitled "A day among the Bird Breeders at the Point of Air," in which he records the Lesser Tern, nesting there, and mentions having found it the previous year at the cast end of the Menai Straits. Other species found breeding at Point of Air were the Ringed Plover, Oyster Catcher, Sheld Duck, and Stock Dove. Moore. - 1824-1892. Thomas John Moore was born in London in 1824. His father was a Norfolk man, but got an appointment on the stall of the Zoological Society, so that from his earliest years the son was able to study animals, alive and dead, his love of natural history growing as years went by. In 1843 he was appointed as assistant in the care of Lord Derby's menagerie and aviary at Knowsley. On the death of that nobleman in 1851 the collection of stuffed specimens was transferred to Liverpool and the public museum founded, T. J. Moore being its first curator, a post which he filled with conspicuous ability for more than 40 years. His work was mainly practical and his literary contributions rather scanty. His most important paper was a Report on the Seals and Whales of the Liverpool district, published by the Liverpool Marine Biological Committee in 1889. Besides this he contributed various short notes and records of species new to the district to the Naturalists' Scrap Book and other local periodicals. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.