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By J. S. UDAL, P.E. Hist. Soc. ; 

 (Member of Council of the Folk-lore Society). 



OME twelve years ago I sent to the pages of 

 Notes and Queries (5th series vii.,- 45, viii., 44) 

 two lists, containing the names which the country 

 folk of Dorset ascribe to the common natural 

 history objects that we see around us, such as 

 animals, birds, insects, plants, &c. (and which, for 

 want of a better term, I may call Natural History Folk-speech), 

 in the hope that other correspondents would do the same for other 

 counties. That hope, however, I am sorry to say, with but one or 

 two trifling exceptions, has not been realised. 



Since that time the Folk-Lore Society, founded in 1878, has 

 supplied a decided want in enabling folk-lorists to chronicle in the 

 pages of its Record and its Journal those special items appertaining 

 to the study of Folk-lore which might have been lost or overlooked 

 in the wider and more cosmopolitan columns of Notes and Queries. 

 I do not think that the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Field Club have contained much in the 

 way of folk-lore, with the exception, if I remember rightly, of a 

 paper on " Sorcery and Witchcraft " from the ever vigorous pen 

 of the President of the Society, which is to be found in Vol. V. 



