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Occurrence of Falco peregrinus and Picus major near FalcenJiam. — A 

 Great Spotted Woodpecker was shot at Raynham on the 4th. of March; 

 and on the 23rd. of the same month a young male Peregrine Falcon was 

 killed near the same place.— T. Southwell, Hempton, Fakenham, April 

 13th., 1858. 



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TJiirsk Natural History Society. — The monthly meeting of this Society 

 was held on the evening of Wednesday, the 6th. of April. Mr. A. G. More, 

 of Bembridge, was duly elected a member of the Botanical Exchange Club. 

 Mr. J. G. Baker announced that the list of desiderated flowering plants and 

 ferns for 18o8, was in a forward state of preparation, and exhibited speci- 

 mens of Ranunculus dronetii and Arctium pubens, gathered by Mr. Kirk, in 

 Warwickshire. Mr. J. H. Davies exhibited specimens of several rare mosses 

 from new stations. 



East Kent Natural History Society. — We have been favoured with a 

 report of the inaugural meeting of the East Kent Natural History Society, 

 containing a most excellent address from Captain Cox. We regret ex- 

 ceedingly that we cannot give this in extenso to our readers, but, as it 

 would occupy a couple of numbers of "The Naturalist," we must content 

 ourselves with making extracts from time to time. It is seldom we have 

 met with an address on Natural History at once so interesting and 

 practically useful. The meeting seems to have been attended by all the 

 principal inhabitants of Canterbury and its neighbourhood, the chair being 

 taken by Major Munn, one of the Vice Presidents. A great number of 

 specimens .in Natural History were exhibited. The following are Captain 

 Cox's opening remarks: — 



"The aim of this Society is, to increase the love of Natural History, 

 and diffuse its ennobling tastes through channels hitherto closed by preju- 

 dice, indifference, and ignorance; to collect and disseminate valuable 

 information; to appoint throughout East Kent, local contributors, who will 

 be requested to keep accurate notes of all points of interest bearing on the 

 subject, and from time to time report them, as occasion may offer; to have 

 stated meetings, at which papers will be read, and excursions carried out; 

 and finally, to unite in one society, all those admirers of the beauties of 

 Creation, whose kindred souls may there meet and become known to each 

 other for their mutual improvement. 



We will now inquire, first, into the advantages of the Society; and then, 

 its objects. 



