EDWARDS, GEORGE (1693-1773), English naturalist, was born at Stratford, Essex, on April 3, 1693. After travelling extensively over Europe, he was appointed librarian to the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1733. His History of Birds (4 vols., 1743-51) with three supplementary volumes, Gleanings of Natural History (1758-64), contain engravings and new de scriptions of more than 600 subjects in natural history, and an in dex of Linnaean names supplied by Linnaeus himself with whom Edwards frequently corresponded. He also wrote Essays of Nat ural History (17 70) and Elements of Fossilogy (1776). Edwards died at Plaistow, Essex, on July 23,