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THE REY. F. A. WALKER, D.D., F.L.S., ON 
Page 113. 
“Species of British Wasps.—The seven kinds of wasps are 
divided into two sections of ground wasps and tree wasps, 
according to whether their nests are customarily formed in 
a hollow in the ground, or suspended in the air from a 
bough, or in a hedge, or, as with our largest species, the Vespa 
crabro, the splendid species known as the ‘hornet,’ the nests. 
may be found in decayed trees, in roots, under eaves, or, as I 
have myself found it, down in the ground bya small post of a 
field paling.” 
Pages 135, 136. 
“ General Summary. 
“(British observations.) The hornet (a true wasp, al- 
though not popularly considered as such) was ‘plentiful ” 
in some localities, but only reported from a few. 
“Of hornets, in one locality nine nests were known of 
within the limits of ‘a. ramble, and twenty in the more 
extended area of a few miles.” 
Page 139. 
“ Also in the case of the large species, known as hornets, 
the juice flowing from young bark, which they have gnawed 
down to the quick, forms an additional article of diet given 
by an additional department of mischief.” 
F. A. WALKER. 
Extract from Rev. J. G. Wood’s “ Homes without Hands,” 
pp- 436-439. 
“The common hornet (Vespa crabro) is tolerably plentiful in 
many parts of England, but seems to be almost absent from 
others. The nest of the hornet is much like that of the 
wasp, except that it is proportionately larger and is almost 
invariably built in heljlow trees, deserted outhouses, and 
places of a similar description. Whenever the hornet takes 
up its residence in an inhabited house, as is sometimes the 
case, the inmates are sure to be in arms against the insect, 
and with good reason. The hornet is much larger than the 
wasp, and its sting is proportionately venomous. It is 
popularly said that three hornets can kill a man; and 
