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and diagrams, and the subject is dealt with in a way which is 
of great value to a naturalist. Some peculiar cases of the effect 
of the Inclosures Acts on the village communities of Lincolnshire 
and the East Riding of Yorkshire are referred to. ‘In the Isle 
of Axholme every cottager possessed a right of common over 
the vast swampy pastures which separated the Isle from York- 
shire on one side and Lincolnshire on the other; the owners 
of land, as such, had no rights of common. In consequence, 
the cottagers were able, when the marshes were divided, drained, 
and inclosed, to defeat the proposal to also inclose the arable 
fields, and these remain to the present day, to a very great 
extent, open and intermixed.’ 
LAKELAND RAVENS. 
From a recent issue of the Yorkshire Post we regret to learn 
that the few ravens that continue to nest in Lakeland are 
exposed to continual persecution by well-to-do egg collectors. 
Recently a pair that had nested on a crag on Melbreak was 
robbed of five eggs. Two parties went to secure the nest. 
Both took 2oft. ladders for the purpose, but finding them too 
short, agreed to join them together, and divide the spoil. A 
spin of a coin decided the fate of the odd egg. The eggs of the 
raven are protected in Cumberland, but it is a mere paper pro- 
tection. The nests are regularly harried by collectors, and 
probably in a short time the Lake District will know the noble 
bird no more. 
We suppose there are police in the Lake District ? though 
possibly they are of the variety of some of those in south-east 
Yorkshire, where a police inspector was recently noticed to be 
one of a party enjoying ‘sport’ amongst protected birds, though 
as they were ona boat ona river they may possibly not have 
been in a place within the meaning of the Act! 
PLANT ASSOCIATIONS AND GOLF. 
A recent writer in one of the dailies has found an original 
excuse for losing a golf match. He was so absorbed in the fact 
that the Fescue grasses occupied the hillocks and the higher 
and drier slopes, whilst others of softer texture and harder 
names flourished in the ‘damp hollows.’* He continues: ‘In 
* This kind of hollow is frequently referred to by golfers. 
Naturalist, 
