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With regard to another form of baskets used for catching 

 flat fish, &c., at p. 368, he says : 



" Besides the putchers another kind of basket is used 

 which is called putts ; . . . . the wicker-work is much closer 

 in this instance than in the other. The putt in its most special 

 form consists of three parts, the large part or mouth, called 

 the ' putt ' ; the middle called the ' butt ' ; and the small end 

 or bag, called the i firwell.' . . . The diameter of the opening 

 is about 5 feet, and the length from 12 to 13 feet ; they are 

 used to catch flat fish, &c." The illustration (fig. A, page 36), 

 given by Mr. Buckland shows the putt, with the small end 

 or " firwell " removed. 



The above technical description of the arrangement, 

 measurement, &c., of the " putts " and " putchers," corre- 

 sponds in most points with the details of the long rows 

 (three or four in number) running out into the river 

 beneath the Sedbury cliffs (plate x.). 



APPENDIX B (p. 67). 



The following notice appeared in the ''Times" of 

 March n, 1901 : 



" Miss Ormerod's Retirement from Entomological Work." 



"Widespread regret will be felt, both at home and 

 abroad, at the announcement which we are able to make, 

 that Miss Eleanor A. Ormerod, after many years of unre- 

 mitting toil, has decided to discontinue the Annual Reports 

 on injurious insects and common farm pests, which she 

 has prepared for a period now extending to close upon a 

 quarter of a century. When in the year 1877 she issued 

 the first of these annual records, and thus placed at the 

 disposal of the public the fruits of her intimate ac- 

 quaintance with many departments of natural history, very 

 little systematic work had been done in the direction of 

 saving crops and live stock from the ravages of insect and 

 other pests. In this respect the position of the farmer and 

 the stock-keeper to-day, as compared with what it was in 

 the middle of the seventies, is vastly improved. It is 



