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considerable distance, and it is pretty obvious that unless some- 

 thing- is at once done to prevent the spoliation of the landscape, 

 all the numerous green-clad slopes of Flamborough Headland 

 and district will be similarly 'ornamented,' and one of nature's 

 beauty spots will be quickly transformed into a bilious-pilled, 

 soap-sodden advertising station, which will result in Flam- 

 borough Headland being as attractive a holiday resort as an 

 average railway terminus. We were informed by an individual 

 well known in Hull that he had rented the piece of land for the 

 purpose of the advertisements, but we feel sure that the two 

 firms can have no idea of the amount of damage they are 

 likely to do to the district, and it is a matter of surprise that 

 the people of Flamborough themselves, in their own interests, 

 should not have protested ag-ainst advertising materials, one of 

 which, at any rate, should not be required in that district. 



' A resolution is being sent to the two firms in question, and 

 also to the landowners, which it is hoped will have the desired 

 effect ; but in the meantime we trust that the publicity you give 

 to the matter will be beneficial. ' 



Strangely enough, enquiry shows that neither of the two 

 firms in question had given any authority for the advertisements 

 to be displayed, nor knew of them until their attention was 

 called to the matter. Apparently they were put up as a 

 speculation by an enterprising individual, and it is perhaps 

 some consolation to know that he will not be paid for his pains. 

 The carting of the large boulders from the beach to the top 

 of the cliffs would be no easy task. To throw them down again 

 would be much easier ! 



YORKSHIRE HYMENOPTERA. 

 In connection with the list of the County Hymenoptera which 

 Mr. W. Denison Roebuck is preparing for the ' Victoria History 

 of Yorkshire,' we are asked to state that he will be glad to 

 receive any vmpublished records of bees, wasps, ants, saw-flies, 

 gall-flies, ichnevmions, and other hymenoptera, or references to 

 any published records he may possibly have missed, for the 

 better completion of the list. That there is much to be expected 

 may well be imagined when it is stated that of consignments of 

 five species of aculeates sent by Mr. E. G. Bayford, a similar 

 number sent by Mr. W. E. L. Wattam, a small lot of ichneu- 

 mons of Mr. Roebuck's own collecting in his infantile days as a 

 naturalist, and the two saw-flies collected by Mr. Porritt at 

 Flamborough, all submitted to Mr. E. Saunders, Mr. Claude 



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