CORRESPONDENCE GLEANINGS. 



ami harmony. Every inch was the property of a separate pair of 

 ■ I found myself Burrounded by at least 100,000 of those 

 clever spinners. On the tu -se to each web, was a 



little heap of debr .s kinds; and one 



h spider would I ten ili< i 



agh of flies 

 in our garden, but if it had m I should 



million more. — F. T. Mott, Birstal Hill, Leicester. 



I title M "cr. at page 287, Vol. III., 



lir. 1880.) should n "The Autumn and Winter 



• \ Birde trict around Bodicote, Oxfordshire." 



(h leaning. 



in a New British Locality. — Small quantities of gold have 



the quartz veins of Peldar Tor, 



a hill in the north-west portion of Oharnwodd Forest, Leicestershire. 



re probably Pre-Cambrian, helonging to the 



of 1 >r. Hick--. 



WHICH HAT] i tNCT IN BRITAIN WITHIN HISTORIC 



Truss. -The following hst, by Mr. .1. E. Earting, is taken from the 

 transactions of the Berts Natural n istory Society : — The Bear, about 

 900 a.d. ; Beaver, L600 ; ithness,) 1100 ; Wild Boar, 1650; 



Wolf, (England,) 1500, Scotland, 1743, Ireland, 1770. 



Ian I'.i'.m'hiopods. — T ilr. Thomns Davidson, F.R.S., in 



ion of his greal work on Fossil Braohiopods, Mr. G. Maw, 

 of Broaeley, has washi 20 tons of Wenlock shale, w Inch 



have yielded 50, aenB of these remarkable fossil shells, 



belonging to it species being Orthis bilo 



which Micro are about 15,000 individuals of every size and age. 



Wobx am ipodb. — In this year's volume of tho 



i aphical Society, Mr. Davidson will publish the results of 



;uiry into the fossil bra lined in the quartzite 



of Budleigh Salterton, on the coast of Devon, giving about 



fifty q a of Letterpress and five plates. The result will be, 



. to show that these quartzites must mainly have been 



of F ure, or their 

 iel. A. remarkable point is 

 1 Bimilar p< ristic bracl 



Orthit ■ -'en found in the Midlands during tl 



r two, l>y Mr. Han I r, Mr. Jennings, at 



I others in the vicinity of Birmingham. Here i 

 work for I ick some thousa 



• r i oloured oi ified kidneys as they are 



oommonlj called and they will aim nly come across some 



which may enable us to trace more certainly these 



to their ..• nil events thej will keep themselves 



warm ! 



