A Doctor of Medicine. Read a paper on beetles of the Bath District to the Bath Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club on 14 March 1884 at which time he also showed a collection: ‘as, however, the correctness of some of the names is doubtful, and there are many specimens not named at all’, it was not thought by the compilers of the Club’s Transactions to be worthy of publication. (V, 1884, 227) Bird was an Honorary member of the Club. (MD 10/01)