164 ‘Notes and Comments. 
also dealt with. The only regret one has on closing this volume 
is that it will be four years before another such record is 
produced ! 
YORKSHIRE WILD BIRDS AND EGGS PROTECTION 
COMMITTEE. 
Mr. Riley Fortune reports that the response to the appeal 
by the above committee for funds to enable it to protect 
the nesting places of rare birds in the county has not been 
so generous as might naturally be expected. The aid of the 
Coastguards and Climbers has been promised for the pro- 
tection of the Peregrines at Bempton; arrangements have 
also been made for the protection of another pair of Pere- 
grines nesting in the county. The paid watcher has com- 
menced his duties at Spurn, and, as his whole time will 
be devoted to looking after the birds, we may hope for very 
good results. Other localities will be dealt with as funds allow, 
and we hope that members of the Union will do all they can to 
help us. farsa 
Amount previously acknowledged ... Xo NOS SEES 
Bradford Naturalists’ Club ... oe Si ee LAO 
W. D. Roebuck so oe ai ables titaats OS 
HS WS AW adee src. 2h 72.9 16,06 
York and Dist. F. Nat. Society SP OO cine 
Scarborough Field Naturalists’ Society ... 0 5 0 
W. Wilson Drone 
DERBYSHIRE NATURALISTS. 
The twenty-ninth volume of the Journal of the Derbyshire 
Archeological and Natural History Society, 1907, issued under 
the able editorship of Mr. C.. E. B. Bowles, is one of the finest 
publications of a provincial society that we have seen for some 
time. It contains over 300 pages, and has a wealth of plates and 
plans that would do credit to any of the leading London societies. 
There is also an ample variety in the nature of its contents. OF. 
the very many articles, the following are perhaps of principal 
interest to our readers :—‘Some Notes on Arbor Low and other 
Lows,’ by T. A. Matthews, ‘Crich Ware,’ by G. le Blanc Smith, 
‘Recent Cave Diggings in Derbyshire,’ by W. Storrs Fox, 
‘Ornithological Notes for 1906,’ by Rev. F. C. R. Jourdain, ete. 
Bound up with this Journal is the valuable and voluminous 
report upon the excavations on the Roman site at Melandra 
Castle, conducted by the Manchester and District branch of the 
Classical Association.. This may be taken as a model which 
might be followed by others excavating sites of this character. 
Naturalist, 
