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NOTES AND COMMENTS. 
THE VASCULUM. 
The December number of The Vasculum (part 4) appar- 
ently completes the first “ volume,’ though there is no title 
page. It contains pages 97-128. Among the more important 
items are A List of Birds of the Outer Farnes, by E. Millerj; 
A New Rose (Rosa eminens) [ Rosa Eminensjinithe ‘ Contents’ | 
by J. W. H. Harrison; ‘ Plant Galls,’ by R.&S.. Bagnall and 
. on Insta, 

H. S. Wallace; ‘Uncommon Birds in North Tyne,’ by A. 
Chapman ; ‘ Northumberland Lakes,’ by H. Jeffreys; ‘ Vespa 
austriaca’ [V. Austriaca in ‘ Contents ’], by J. W. H. Harrison ; 
“Snout Mites in Durham,’ by J. E. Hull, and ‘ The Ruff in 
Durham,’ by C. E. Milburn. We are not quite sure whether 
Mr. Harrison has made out a case for a new form of rose (the 
illustration of which we are kindly permitted to reproduce) as 
there is extraordinary variation amongst the wild roses, but 
at any rate he gives a detailed description of it. Jn his notes 
the Rev. Hull describes two more species of Snout Mites, 
viz., Bdella iacustris and B. calva, ‘ Yoskshire,’ (p. 125), 
savours of the far east ; there is much broken type ; the photo 
1916 Feb, 1. 
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