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reach of that, we had almost said, most interesting of all rural spots, ^^The 

 Ferry." The author's extensive acquaintance with literature and history', enables 

 him to give an interest to the facts detailed respecting natural productions, 

 which they could not receive from the pen of one exclusively devoted to 

 science. 



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Geological Sociefi/ of Edinburgh, June, 1851. — On Chalk Flint, found in Tweedsmuir. 



IsIk. Bell read a paper stating that he liad obtained several specimens of Chalk Flint, from 

 the Boulder Clay, upon the fjinn of Ilawkshaw, in Tweedsmuir, situated upon an offshoot from 

 the hill called Ilaitfell, two thousand six hundred and thirty-five feet high, the higliest hill hi 

 the south of Scotland. 



In alluding to the probable manner in which the Flint had been carried from the low level 

 at which we now find the Chalk formation in Britain, and deposited there at a height of about 

 fourteen or fifteen hundred feet above the sea, he suggested that unequal subm(>rgence during 

 the deposit of the Boulder Clay, might account for the Flint being thus found so much higher 

 than its former probable level ; and in illustration of this view, stated, that he thought we had 

 evidence to shew that during the deposit of the Boulder Clay, when tliis northern part of 

 Britain was submerged, the south of England had remained at or near the surface ; and in support 

 of this, adduced the fact, observed by different writers, of the entire absence of the Boulder Clay 

 in that district. After stating several reasons for supposing that coast ice, and not icebergs, had 

 been the transpoiiing agent, he supposed that ITartfcll might then have existed as an island, 

 and that coast ice having the flints frozen into it, blown off by a gale, or carried by a current, 

 from a chalk sea-coast, had been sti-anded upon the then island of Hartfell, and there melted. 



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Tlie Bustard, (Otis tarda.)— It would be uitcresting if any reader of "Tlie Naturalist" would 

 furnish well-authenticated instances of tftat noble bird, the Bustard, having been found in 

 England during the last thu-ty years. A friend of mine ha.s a pair of stuffed specimens, which I 

 think are in finer condition than any I have seen elsewhere. —Henry Tuckett, Frenchay, Bristol. 



It would be a great advantage to many of your entomological readers, if some of j'our 

 correspondents would furnish to them in the pages of "The Naturalist," monthly, beforehand, 

 a list of the species of insects which may be expected to be found in the ensuing month, on the 

 first of which the magazine is published. Such a series of articles, monthly, on the plan of 

 Samouelle's "Entomologist's Useful Companion," might be published collectively in a volume at 

 the end of the year, and would doubtless be purchased by many entomologists. Let me beg of 

 any of your readers who have leisiu'e for such a work to comply with this request.— 

 F. 0. Morris, Nafferton Vicarage, Driffield, July 3rd., 1851. 



I find that I must add to the "interrogative particles," in the May number of "The Naturalist," 

 two more similar queries respecting the occurrence m this country of the Yellow-nosed Albatross, 

 (Dionuidea chlororynchus,) and the Painted Bunting, (Spiza ciris.J—ldcm. 



What is the best method of killing Lepidoptera, and other insects, for the cabinet; without 

 injury to their colours? — D. G. F. 



Mr. Dorville incidentally mentions having some impubUshed memoranda of Col. Montagu's in 

 his possession. May we venture to ask him if he feels at liberty to publish them in our pages. 

 They would doubtless be very interesting to all admirers, (not a few,) of Col. Montagu. — 

 B. R. M. 



