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structure. It is, for the most part, a re-statement, and advances little 
that is new.’ 
Besides the President’s address on ‘ Co-operation,’ the Conference ot 
Delegates of the Corresponding Societies discussed the following :— 
(1) ‘The Encouragement of Public Interest in Science by means of 
Popular Lectures.’ Introduced by Mr. Percival J. Ashton, Extension 
Lecture Secretary of the Selborne Society. 
(2) ‘ The Desirability of forming Federations of Societies with Cognate 
Aims.’ Introduced by Mr. Arthur Bennett, Delegate of the Warrington 
Society. 
(3) ‘The Importance of Kent’s Cavern as a National Site.” In the 
absence of Mrs. Hester Forbes Julian (née Pengelly), Delegate of the 
Torquay Natural History Society, the paper was read by Mr. W. Whitaker. 

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‘The Wood Pigeon,’ is the title of the Board of Agriculture and 
Fisheries Leaflet, No. 307. 
We should like to congratulate our contributor, Mr. J. J. Burton, 
F.G.S., on his election as a Justice of the Peace. 
We regret to record the death of Lieut. Col. J. W. Ellis, a prominent 
member of the Liverpool Naturalists’ Field Club. 
From The Times, we learn that a beanstalk has been pulled in the 
Bourne district of Lincolnshire measuring 8ft. 3in. high and carrying 47 
pods. 
The 45th Report of the County Borough of Rochdale Public Libraries, 
Art Gallery and Musuem Committee, states that pressure of work on the 
Library side has prevented much being done in the Museum. 
We notice from The Handbook and Descriptive Catalogue of the Meteorite 
Collections in the United States National Museum, by G. P. Merrill, 
reference is made to a fragment of the Wold Cottage Meteorite which fell 
in Yorkshire in 1795. 
Mr. G. M. Davies (mis-spelt Davis on the heading on page 94) has a 
valuable paper on the ‘ Rocks and Minerals of Croydon Regional Survey 
Area,’ in the Proceedings and Transactions of the Croydon Natural History 
and Scientific Society, Volume 8, part 2. 
The Annual Report of the Yorkshive Philosophical Society for 1915, 
just to hand, containsa lengthy and well illustrated paper on ‘ Yorkshire 
Potteries, Pots and Potters,’ by Mr. Oxley Grabham. Mr. George Benson 
also gives notes on a Cobble Road, uncovered under the Vaulted Archway 
of St. Leonard’s Hospital, York. 
Prof. E. J. Garwood has a lengthy paper on ‘ The Faunal Succession 
in the Lower Carboniferous Rocks of Westmorland and North Lancashire ’ 
in the Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association, Vol. XXVII, pt. 1. It 
is illustrated by numerous sections, maps, photographs and plates of 
fossils, and there are extensive tables of species. 
We notice a correspondent, writing from a Vicarage, to The Westminster 
Gazette, states—‘During the last few days, a young but fully-fledged and 
apparently fully-grown hawk has repeatedly flown on to my lawn, and, 
sqatting, has made its hunger or its greed known by constant cries. ‘Quite 
a number of swallows and wag-tails have gone to its assistance, bringing 
it insects and, I think, other food SPP Te To me, it is a forcible and curious 
comment, in “the world of nature, on the well-known Pauline passage : 
‘Tf thine enemy hunger, feed him,’ and Lam wondering whether, Androcles- 
like, these succourers of a potential foe in distress will escape its future 
hostile proclivities.” As the bird he described was no doubt a young 
cuckoo, the correct quotation should be, ‘I was a stranger and I took you 
in, 
Naturalist, 
