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By the Rev. O. PICKARD-CAMBRIDGE, M.A., P.R.S., 

 C.M.Z.S., &c., &c. 



T will be in the recollection of some now present 

 that I read some notes at a former meeting of our 

 Club upon * Squirrels burying acorns in Autumn, 

 and I observed that one season, subsequently, 

 there sprung up numerous young oak trees where 

 the burying had taken- place. Talking over this 

 afterwards with my friend, Mr. Harting (Secretary of the Linnsean 

 Society and well known as an ornithologist and general Naturalist), 

 he mentioned to me a paper he had come across, written nearly two 

 centuries ago, in which a very similar account was given of an 

 extensive sepulture of acorns by Roolcs. Mr. Harting has since 

 very kindly sent me a copy of that much of the paper referred to 

 which relates to this subject. The paper is entitled "An Essay 

 " towards a Natural History of Westmoreland and Cumberland, by 

 " Thomas Robinson, Rector of Ouseby, 8vo., London, 1709." 



It is as follows : 



" About 25 years ago coming home from Rose Castle, early in the 

 " morning, I observed a great number of crows [Rooks] very busy 

 " at their work upon a declining ground of a mossy surface. I 

 " went out of my way on purpose to view their labour, and I found 

 * See Vol. xi., p. 27. 



