NOTES AND COMMENTS. 



THE WHITBY MUSEUM. 



The Ninety-fifth Report of the Whitby Literary and 

 Philosophical Society gives evidence of unusual zeal on behalf 

 of the Officers of the Society during the past twelve months. 

 Besides the usual report on the year's work, there are valuable 

 local Natural History and Meteorological records, and a 

 reprint of Mr. Sheppard's paper on the ' Implements of the 

 Bronze Age in the Whitby Museum,' which appeared in The 

 Natiiyalird for February last. For the frontispiece is an 



The Whitby Museum. 



illustration of the W^hitby Museum, which we are kindly 

 permitted to reproduce. 



AN AVIATOR. 



We notice the following in The Yorkshire Post of June 

 20th : — ' I should like to voice a grievance felt by the village 

 of Bempton near Flamborough. At this time of the year, 

 there are many thousands of Guillemots and Razorbills (Guille- 

 mots in particular) nesting on Bempton Qiffs, and some 

 thousand of eggs are annually gathered by the Bempton Cliff 

 Climbers for food for the village and surrounding districts. 

 Yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon, a seaplane traversed 

 the cliffs from one end to the other (some three miles) firing a 

 machine gun over the entire distance into the chffs, which had 

 the effect of bringing birds hurriedly off their eggs, creating a 

 wild avian panic. In the act of hastily leaving the cliff, 

 hundreds of eggs would be carried off the cliff and wasted 



1918 Aug, 1. 



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