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The Committee suggest to the friends of the Institution, that should any 

 works of a scientific character be in their possession which have ceased to 

 be useful to them, from a change of studies, or from any other cause, they 

 would confer a great benefit on this department by the loan or donation of 

 them, for the purposes of reference. 



In adverting to the periodical evening meetings of the Philosophical and 

 Literary Society, annexed to the Institution, the Committee feel peculiar 

 pleasure in being able to state that the zeal, the talent, the research, and 

 the ingenuity which have successively furnished on those occasions a most 

 valuable series of original essays on interesting subjects of literature or 

 science, have met with their appropriate reward, in the assiduous attend- 

 ance, and the grateful applause, of numerous and intelligent audiences. 



The Report concludes with an expression of confident hope that the 

 interest taken by the public in the welfare of the Institution, far from 

 diminishing, may each successive year augment in active energy, and thus 

 perpetuate and extend its various resources for gratification and instruction. 

 {Feb. 14. 1828.) 



Devonshire. 



The Dartmouth WaMer and other Birds. — As a lover of natural history, 

 and willing to assist any one in the pursuit of it, I beg you will inform your 

 ornithological friends that the Dartford Warbler, the Serle Bunting, and 

 the Grasshopper Lark are every summer to be seen in this immediate 

 neighbourhood. The first I have never seen except in the spring and sum- 

 mer ; the second does not migrate, but remains all the year ; the third 

 arrives in the spring, and departs in the autumn. The Dartford Warbler 

 haunts furze and hedge-rows, or the borders of heaths. A friend of mine 

 shot a pair last spring. They are extremely nimble and active, and remain 

 in the thickest bushes ; and although they will permit one to approach close 

 to the bush in which they are, from their constant motion it is difficult to 

 shoot them in a fit state for preservation. Still it is very possible to pro- 

 cure dead specimens any week, if diligently sought after. Should I ever 

 procure a living specimen of either, I shall have much pleasure in present- 

 ing it to your correspondent, R. Sweet. I have further to observe, that a 

 friend of mine, last October, shot on Dawlich Warren a fine specimen of 

 the Osprey, or Sea Eagle ; and in January last, at Newton Abbot, six miles 

 hence, two or three of the Waxen, or Bohemian, Chatterers. Of the 

 Little Horned Owl (^Strix iScops of Linnaeus) several pairs breed in the plant- 

 ations of the Rev. Thomas Martin, near Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. 

 I am, Sir, &c. — Charles Blomer, Capt. H. P. 56th Regiment. Teignmouth, 

 Devonshire, April. 1829. 



Art. IV. Natural History in North Wales. 



Localities of rare Plants^ by N". Winch, Esq. — To any of your readers 

 who may be about to make a botanical tour in North Wales, the following 

 account of the localities of rare plants, ascertained during the course of 

 last summer, may prove usefiil in facilitating their researches. For the 

 accuracy of the catalogue I feel no hesitation in standing pledged, specimens 

 of the whole being in my herbarium. When no person's initials follow a 

 habitat, it implies that I have seen the plant growing in the place men- 

 tioned ; but I by no means would have it understood that these species 

 were first noticed there by myself, for, at least, four fifths of them were 

 pointed out to me by Mr. Wilson of Warrington, an indefatigable and 

 correct botanist, the fortunate discoverer of Cotoneaster vulgaris and Ch^ra 

 aspera in Wales, and Kobrfesia caricina in Scotland. 



