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FIELD NOTE. 
BIRDS. 
Curious Place for Great Tit’s Nest.—A pair of Great 
Tits built a nest in the crupper of a rocking-horse in the 
garden at 46 Brook Street, Selby (May 18th). The eggs could 
be easily seen.—J. F. Musuam, Selby. 
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The Fifth Annual Report of the Doncaster Art Gallery and Museum (14 
pp.), Just to hand, contains record of the work of this institution during 
the year. It seems somewhat hampered by the want of exhibition space. 
The Annual Report and Transactions of the Manchester Microscopical 
Society contains, among other items, the Presidential Address, ‘ Juvenile 
and Adult Structure in Plants, * by Prof, F. E. W eiss ; ‘ The Microscopy of 
the Manchester Water Supply,’ by Charles Turner ; and ‘ The Histology of 
a Leaf,’ by G. McKechnie. 
The Report and Proceedings of the Manchester Field Naturalists’ and 
Archeologists’ Scciety for the year 1914, 90 pages, contains illustrated 
reports of excursions and meetings of this society, some being as far away 
as Leamington and Bournemouth. The reports are of a general character 
and contains notes on plants, birds, etc. The publication is well produced. 
The Transactions of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeo- 
eee Society for Sessions I9gI0-11, I9II-I2, 1912-13 (77 pages), edited by 
G. H. Storer, forming Volume VII. has just been received. Besides papers 
of ee nan interest, annual reports, etc., we notice ‘Our Summer 
Migrants,’ and ‘ Dates of Arrival of Summer Migrants, 1911, 1912, 1913,” 
by Charles Hanson, jun. ; ‘A Visit to the Roman Wall in Connection 
with the Monk’s Bridge,’ by H. A. Rye; ‘Some Bird Notes, ’ and ‘A List 
of the Vertebrate Animals in the Society’ s Collection,’ catalogued by G. 
H. Storer ; and Meteorological Summary, [LOlim, LOl2, LOLs: 
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