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to Guillemot and man posterity in the sea. Again, the exposure 

 of the eggs left them at the mercy of those avian felons the 

 Jackdaw and Herring Gull, who were not slow to avail them- 

 selves of so tempting a dainty, and got their beaks busy among 

 the eggs,' Some time ago the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union 

 was successful in preventing the pleasure steamers from 

 Bridlington and Scarborough from firing guns as they passed 

 the Speeton CUffs in order to let the trippers see the clouds 

 of birds ; now we have an adjectival aviator playing the same 

 game, presumably to amuse himself. 



MARTIN SIMPSON. 



Through the kindness of Mr, J. T. Sewell, J. P., we are able 



to reproduce a portrait of Martin Simpson, who was for many 

 years the Curator of the Whitby Museum. He was known 

 for his early work among the Ammonites of the Yorkshire 

 Lias, and was the author of several pamphlets on the Geology 

 of the Whitby District and on Yorkshire Coast. The Yorkshire 

 Geological Society is publishing a Memoir on Simpson in the 

 next part of its Proceedings. 



' Naturalist, 



