196 Notes and Comments. 
SCARBOROUGH NATURALISTS. 
It is also evident that the Field Naturalists’ Society at 
Scarborough is doing useful work, judging from the Recorders’ 
reports. We learn the membership ‘is probably about equal 
to that of last year.’ Amongst the more interesting items we 
notice that a small colony of Black-headed Gulls nested near 
Scarborough. ‘On May 16th there were about forty nests, but 
all had been plundered, either by human or avian depredators, 
and not an egg was to be found.’ Reference is made to the 
‘self-denial’ of the climbers at Speeton in allowing the young 
peregrines last year to fly, and to the fact that this is the fourth 
occasion upon which peregrines have nested within the Scar- 
borough district since 1g00. 
RECORDERS’ REPORTS. 
Mr. W. J. Clarke is responsible for the report on the 
Vertebrata, Mr. W. Pearson for Coleoptera, Mr. A. S. Tetley 
for Lepidoptera, in which report it is recorded, somewhat un- 
expectedly, that ‘the season of 1906 has been a good one for 
Lepidoptera,’ Mr. E. R. Cross for Flowering Plants, Mr. W. 
Gyngell for Conchology, Mr. E. B. Lotherington for Micro- 
Botany and [Micro-] Zoology, and Mr. R. Gilchrist for Geology 
and Arachnida. All these gentlemen have carefully recorded 
the season’s work, and in several departments additions to our 
knowledge have been made. If we might make a suggestion 
for the benefit of future reports, it is that the scientific names 
of the species referred to be printed in italics (this is done, 
partly, in the Botanical Report), and that greater care be taken 
in the matter of proof-reading. Amongst some of the more: 
glaring misprints are ‘Fuses,’ ‘Cornbrach,’ and ‘ Slathwait.’ 
The commas also appear to have been dropped in anyhow in 
parts of the report. Perhaps the most unexpected item was: 
that Prof. Kendall had sent for inspection ‘a special model of 
the Glaciatioro, in North Yorkshire.’ Something Italian, surely! 
MODEL OF EBBING AND FLOWING WELL, 
In Evan’s ‘How to Study Geology,’ which we are noticing 
elsewhere, an interesting illustration is given of the model of 
the ebbing and flowing well at Austwick Hall, the property of 
T. R. Clapham, Esq., which was constructed by the late Richard 
Clapham about the year 1851. By the courtesy of the 
publishers we are able to reproduce this diagram. for the benefit 
Naturalist,. 
