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Marlborough College Natural History Society, 

 Report for the Year 1904. No. 53. in addition to 



the usual record of meetings and field days, details of the work of the 

 various sections, and the meteorological and anthropometrical tables, to 

 which we are accustomed, there are several items in this year's report 

 of special interest. The Rev. Chr. Wordsworth has a paper of some 

 length on "Old Marlborough History," containing a wealth of antiquarian 

 gossip of all sorts and kinds most entertainingly dished up. Following 

 this are Major N. Manders' "Notes on Marlborough Butterflies," ex- 

 ceedingly interesting to all Wiltshire collectors, inasmuch as they deal 

 with the comparative rarity of various notable species thirty years ago 

 and at the present time. The White Admiral (Lime7iitis Sibylla), com- 

 mon in Stype Wood in 1874, has apparently entirely disappeared, whilst, 

 on the other hand, the Black Hairstreak' (Thecla W. Alhvm), 

 unknown before 1873, "appears now to be quite common in the im- 

 mediate neighbourhood of the town." The Camberwell Beauty (V. 

 Antiopa) is only known to have occured once in the district, in 1880.- 



In the botanic section, a gentian found abundantly on Eockley Downs, 

 Baydon, and Tan Hill, has been identified as Gentiana lingnlata var. 

 prfecox, new to the list. Trifoliumfiliforme, Hypericum humifumm, and 

 Leontodon hirtus have also been found. 



Four new species were added to the list of Lepidoptera. " A remarkable 

 occurrence was the capture of a living specimen of a South American 

 moth, Geramidia Butleri, in the High Street of Marlborough. There is 

 little doubt that it was imported in the pupa state with bananas received 

 from Costa Rica by Mr. Barnard, near whose shop it was found. A 

 further point of interest is that it was a melanic specimen . . . This 

 result was probably an eflect of the refrigeration undergone during 

 the voyage." A valuable list of all recorded species of Rymenoptera, 

 Hemiptera, &c., of the district is given. 



There is also a full obituary notice of the Rev. T. A. Preston. 



The Illustrated Guide to the Church Congress 

 and Ecclesiastical Art Exhibition, Weymouth, a.d. 



1905. Cr. 8vo, pp. 304. A marvellously cheap three-pennyworth, 

 containing an excellent " Guide to Salisbury " specially written for the 

 purpose by the Rev. Canon Carpenter, which is well worth four times 

 the money, containing admirable photographs of the Bishop, the Dean, 

 and Canon Carpenter himself, and no less pleasing views of the Cathedral 

 from the River, from the North-East, and from the Palace Garden ; the 

 Nave, the Choir looking East and West, the Tomb of Bishop Giles de 

 Bridport, and the Cloisters ; Old Sarum ; High Street Gate ; Theological 

 College ; King's House ; Church House ; Diocesan House of Mercy ; 



' It may be worth mentioning as confirming the growing extension of this 

 species, that a specimen was taken in the vicarage garden at Clyffe Pypard 

 this year. 



- The wings of a specimen which had been killed and eaten by birds were 

 picked up at Hilmarton by the Rev. E. H. Goddard about 1876. 



