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received a special award from the Avicultural Society. 
They were never known to have been reared before in 
Britain. 
At the above meeting Mr W. C. Crawford gave a short 
address, with lantern and microscopical illustrations, on “The 
Grasses, an Example of Nature Study,” with special reference 
to one of the prizes for the encouragement of local Natural 
History offered by the Society. 
XI—A WINTER IN CORNWALL. 
By Mr ARCHIBALD CRAIG. 
(Read April 23, 1902.) 
IT may seem somewhat presumptuous on my part, consid- 
ering the short time at my disposal, to attempt to describe 
such a curious and interesting county as Cornwall. As a 
matter of fact, it will not be possible to do more than 
touch the fringe of the subject at present; so in order to 
do this as concisely as may be, and to avoid prolixity, I 
have divided this paper into sections, which I shall take 
up one by one, in the hope that some of them may be 
of interest to the members of the Society. The first to 
be glanced at is the 
SCENERY, TOPOGRAPHY, AND CLIMATE. 
Since returning home I have been frequently asked, “ How 
does the scenery of Cornwall compare with that of our 
own country of Scotland?” The answer to that is, There 
is practically no comparison between them, as the outstanding 
features of each are quite diverse. True it is that in Corn- 
wall one discovers little glens running down to the sea-shore 
which call up reminiscences of similar scenes in the High- 
lands, but the Cornish ones are on a much smaller scale. 
The county is hilly, but it cannot be called mountainous, 
