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botany, the study of plants. I shall only now allude to ornithology, 

 entomology, and botany; but I believe you will find specimens of all 

 branches in the room. Three-fourths of the eastern division of the 

 county of Kent is bounded by water. It is the nearest land to the 

 continent; therefore the lover of birds may collect in our districts many 

 very rare specimens — the golden oriole, the roller, the waxwing — many of 

 the hawks, and most of our summer visitors — the Dartford Warbler in- 

 cluded, and several varieties of snipe. The great extent of sea coast 

 necessarily makes us acquainted with numerous water-fowl. Consequently 

 there is ample room to make a very valuable collection of British birds, 

 with the kindred study of their eggs. 



{To be continued.) 



€Ip fUtrasprt 



I have just received a letter from Dr. Hobson, of Leeds, who says 

 "Mr. Waterton has most solemnly assured me that in naming 'the contro- 

 versial papers' in the preface he did not allude to you in any way what- 

 ever." When a gentleman makes such an assertion I am bound to believe 

 him, and as a matter of course I accept the disclaimer, and am really 

 glad to have the inference removed, which the words in the preface had 

 previously led me to entertain. F. O. Morris, June 17th., 1858. 



In "The Naturalist" for this month, Mr. Round, in the second chapter 

 of his very interesting "Natural History of Sunninghill," states that place 

 to be longitude 40° west, and latitude 25°; adding that it is twenty-four 

 miles west of London. Permit me to observe that the geographical situ- 

 ation of London is longitude 0° 6" west, and latitude 51° 00" north. It 

 therefore follows that Sunninghill, being distant from London twenty-four 

 miles, west, the difference can only be that much more (about half a degree) 

 in longitude; and the latitude nearly the same at both places. — Thomas 

 Fuller, 2, Grafton Place, Bath, June 5th., 1858. 



Dr. W. H. Rooke, Belvidere Cottage, Scarborough, has duplicates of the 

 following eggs, which he would be happy to exchange for others. — Merlin, 

 Kestrel, Sparrow Hawk, Long-eared Owl, Spotted Flycatcher, Redstart, 

 Whinchat, Reed Warbler, Nightingale, Greater Pettychaps, Gold-crested 

 Wren, Lesser Pettychaps, Skylark, Red Grouse, Goatsucker, and Common 

 Cormorant.— May 14th., 1858. 



