S4 Field Nete. 
the name of sea-mill.’ His friends ‘ regard the discovery, in 
that it throws hght upon the problem of cliff formation, of 
great importance to geologists, but the curator, with the 
modesty of the true man of science {a curator modest!) is 
inclined to await the judgment of his confederates before 
formulating any definite claims.’ He stated, however, that 
‘certainly so far as my experience goes, my discovery does 
relate to a phenomenon of nature hitherto unknown. The 
word “ sea-mills,”” by which I propose to describe it, will, of 
course, also constitute a new term in science, and will, I suppose, 
find mention in the scientific text works of the future.’ 
SIR FRANCIS GALTON. 
The death of Sir Francis Galton, D.C.L., F.R.S., etc., which 
occurred on the 17th January, severs an interesting link between 
the present and past generations of scientists. Sir Francis 
Galton’s interesting ‘Memoirs ’ were reviewed in this journal 
some little time ago, and threw much lhght upon the many- 
sidedness of the author’s life. He was grandson of Dr. Erasmus 
Darwin, and cousin to Charles Darwin. It is consequently 
not surprising that Galton turned his attention to the sub- 
jects of heredity and eugenics—his researches in connection 
with which gave him a world-wide reputation. His system 
of identification by means of finger-prints, is also now almost 
universally adopted. He was born at Duddeston, near Bir- 
mingham, in 1822. 
BON 
Siskins at Hebden Bridge.—On the morning of December 
26th, 1g10, whilst walking alongside the stream in Crimsworth 
Dene, Hebden Bridge, I put up from out of the decayed bracken, 
a small party of Siskins. My first impression was that there 
might be half a dozen birds, but on a close investigation, 
after they had settled, I could only find three, one ¢ and two 
Qs. They gave every opportunity for observation, moving 
to the opposite side of the stream, but only a few paces aw ay, 
and one female came down to the water’s edge and drank 
within a few feet of me. The lower part of the stream is 
fringed with alders, but the birds were quite away from them, 
Ande when I disturbed them, they were evidently sheltering 
from a rather blustering wind. For many years I have w atched 
these alders for Siskins in winter, with negative results. Thomas 
Allis, in 1844, wrote that this species | was common in some 
seasons near Hebden Bridges) ihe late El Ker Bacup, 
in the Manchester Guardian recorded a party in the Hebden 
Valley, in November, 1893, which is the immediately preceding 
local occurrence of which there is a record. He added that 
he had observed the species here nearly every winter.— WALTER 
GREAVES, Hebden Bridge. 
Naturalist, 
