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a point, with indentations radiating from the centre like the spokes of 
a wheel. The egg itself is round, the shell like clear glass, and filled 
with a bright red fluid, which gives rise to the little scarlet six-legged 
mite, which does not get its full complement of eight legs until after 
the first change of skin. 
I am informed by Mr. Michael, the President of the Royal 
Microscopical Society, that this mite has the peculiarity that in places 
where they have not been noticed for years, or not at all, the eggs 
suddenly appear, sometimes in a single night, covering spaces very 
much larger than this and as thickly. I found the eggs on Banner- 
down and Charmy Down, but in much less profusion. 
Mr. Michael also told me that one gentleman has actually described. 
these eggs as a new fungus and called them Craterium pyriforme. 
Several living specimens of this red mite were found by the 
party under the stones which lie about on the turf, as well as the 
white coverings of their eggs, and shortly afterwards the descent 
of the hill was made on various sides, and the day’s work brought 
to an end. 
Longford Castle, Wilton House and Stonehenge, April 17 and 18, 
1894.—The Second Excursion of the season took place on the 17th 
and 18th April, in which 21 members of the Field Club, and two. 
visitors took part. Starting by the 10.18 a.m. train on the 
G.W.R. Salisbury was made by 12.30 p.m., and the accommoda- 
tion in the way of single-bedded rooms at the White Hart Hotel 
was tried to its uttermost by the influx of such a large body of 
guests, and the “ salle-a-manger” proved sadly deficient. 
At 2 p.m. three brakes received 20 members of the party for a 
three mile drive to Longford Castle, the seat of the Earl of Radnor. 
This extraordinary structure with five towers is situated on the 
banks of the Wiltshire Avon, and Major C. E. Davis, F.S.A., 
‘who was of the party, gave the members a brief history of its. 
construction. Originally built by Sir Thomes Gorges and his 
wife Helena von Snachenberg, a Danish lady, who are both 
buried in Salisbury Cathedral, in the form of a triangle, at the cost. 
of £18,000, it was surrendered October 17th, 1645, to Cromwell in 
