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James Edmund Fotheringham Harting
(1841–1928)
 
English ornithologist and conservationist; librarian and assistant secretary of the Linnean Society. Best known under the name 'James Edmund Harting.'
This author wrote articles for the Dictionary of National Biography, and the list on this page is complete to 1901.
Articles written by this author are designated in the DNB by the initials "J. E. H."
James Edmund Fotheringham Harting

Works

  • The birds of Middlesex. A contribution to the natural history of the county (1866) (external scan)
  • The Ornithology of Shakespeare: Critically Examined, Explained, and Illustrated (1871) (external scan)
  • Hints on shore shooting; with a chapter on skinning and preserving birds (1871) (external scan)
  • A handbook of British birds (1872) (external scan)
  • Rambles in Search of Shells, Land and Freshwater (1875) (external scan)
  • The fauna of the Prybilov Islands (1875) (external scan)
  • Our Summer Migrants: An Account of the Migratory Birds which Pass the Summer in the British Islands (1877) (external scan)
  • —— (1880). British Animals Extinct Within Historic Times: with Some Account of British Wild White Cattle. London: Trübner & Co.  (external scan) (BHL).
Edition Boston : J.R. Osgood & Co (1880): (external scan)
  • Essays on sport and natural history (1883) (external scan)
  • —— (1884). Hints on the Management of Hawks. London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office.  (external scan) (second expanded edition: Harting 1898)
  • Bibliotheca Accipitraria (1891) (external scan)
  • The rabbit; with a chapter on Cookery (1898) (external scan)
  • —— (1898). Hints on the Management of Hawks (second edition), to which is added: Practical Falconry, chapters historical and descriptive. London: Horace Cox, "The Field" Office.  (external scan) (second expanded edition of Harting 1884)
  • —— (1901). A Handbook of British Birds, Showing the Distribution of the Resident and Migratory Species in the British Islands, with an Index to the Records of the Rarer Visitants. London: John C. Nimmo.  (external scan) (external scan)
  • "Yarrell, William," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.

Editor of The Zoologist

James Edmund Harting was editor of The Zoologist from 1877 to 1896:

Contributions to The Zoologist

Apart from many (often unsigned) contributions as the editor, Harting also contributed:

  • Harting, J.E. (1877). "On the Occurence for the First Time in England of the American Red-breasted Thrush (Turdus migratorius)". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol 1 (issue 1, January): 14–17. 
  • —— (1877). "Rabbits Breeding above Ground". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 18. 
  • —— (1877). "Rooks Attacking Acorns". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 21–22. 
  • —— (1877). "Tree Sparrow Nesting in Middlesex". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 1, January—section 'Occasional Notes'): 24. 
  • "The Editor" (1877). "On the Former Nesting of the Spoonbill in the County of Sussex". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 10, October): 425–429. 
  • —— (1877). "On the Occurrence of the Hobby in Ireland". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 11, November): 471–472. 
  • —— (1877). "On the Occurrence in England of Dutrochet's Land Leech, Trochetia subviridis". The Zoologist. 3 1 (issue 12, December): 515–523. 
  • —— (1878). "The Land and Freshwater Mollusca of Sussex". The Zoologist. 3rd series, vol. 2 (issue 3, March): 84–94. 

Works about Harting


Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.

The author died in 1928, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 
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