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but rather wish to retire and enjoy the fruits of the fame they have 
won, he, in 1888, established and personally conducted esearch, 
a monthly scientific journal, Added to the already heavy professional 
nowadays involves an amount of pehactil labour which can, perhaps, 
be only properly appreciated by those who have tried it. Although 
the experiment met with a considerable amount of support, the 
health and increasing private engagements of its editor necessitated 
its withdrawal after a short career of two years. As one closely 
connected ates vie venture from its inception, I have pleasure in 
bearing testim to the cordial appreciation which Mr. Tate’s 
on 
from the conductors of journals which were friendly rivals to his own. 
A career which has developed so many schemes of usefulness 
affords a valuable stimulus to similar spirited efforts. If I have 
dwelt too little on his public labours, and too greatly on the man 
himself, it is because Mr. Norman Tate’s own personality—his 
innate kindness of disposition—has been so strongly impressed upon 
me, as it has been on many others, to whom his friendship will 
always be one of the most pleasurable recollections. 
OsmunD W. JEFFS. 
dieing ta siete OGY. 
Food of Dipper.— zzard of a water-ouzel hd nage dag rege recent] y 
shot at the fish-ponds fone ebiitait ed a Ngan r gru ions of 
aquatic larvee, and remains of two spide These pentiy pe se fo “ne 
Pon they have been seen to take ie fy. from the ponds. Never, however, 
any instance has the remains of a n found on dissection. They nest 
re soem —J. J. ARMISTEAD, te Vishery, Dumfries, Aug. 13th, 1892+ 
Baillon # Crake n ar Pocklington, and White Varieties of the Jay 
near Wout ag oy peel numbers of birds fall victims to the telegra aph-wires, 
and if these ‘ patent guillotines’ continue = diye a as iat ey are doing at present, 
many more casualties will dou btless occ er of scarce sagoetage 
he 
ene e to my knowle : d 
ke ( Porzana oat was picked up under a wire b n Pocklington am 
rk Museu 
half-dozen specimens otly of Baillon’ s Crake appear to Sars been recorded 
re Yorkshire ) 
Pi ilst_ writ ing I may record two eee ip the Jay | ee a farius 
ak 
of the 
all 
a ae Oo ts ( most] 1n 
the tail po otherwise snow-white. Bi A e horn-brown. 
The second specimen was whiter stil having a fam dusky me on the ae 
only. Both birds were quite young when killed, and purport to have come fro 
two different nests.—J. BacKHoUusE, icine, Sep. 8th, 
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