164 BAe 3 MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
and others from a distance, whilst letters expressive of deep 
sympathy were received from the Bishops of Richmond and Ripon,’ 
the Marquis of Ripon, and numerous other friends who were 
unable to take part in paying their last tribute of respect to the 
memory of one who was so ripe a scholar, so kind a friend, and of 
whom it may be truly recorded— 
He seemed the thing he was, a joined 
Each office of the social hou 
To noble manners, as the Sue 
And native growth of noble mind. 
BaLvErsByY, S.O., YORKSHIRE. W.. GREGSON. 
NOTE—MOSSES. 
Uncommon Mos r Market Weigh igh ef a hundred years 
ago Mr. 2 Teesdale acordad in the Transactions of the Linnean Reyes the: 
‘eccurrence of Sys gown Yip ti (Hedw.) a at Beverley; last month I found a pat 
of it growing on the banks of our hee sed reservoir, thus giving it an additional: 
ocality as an ay "Riding —J. J. MarsHatt, Market Weighton, 
April 4th, 1893 : 
NOTE—BOTANY. 
Early and Late.—An instance of the freaks naar by the extraordinary. 
spell of hot spring weather was one noticed near Settle on en 12th April. My sister 
(Miss Thompson, of Settle) and I inspec’ ants by a cepa . oe ~ Va lley 
(Convallaria majalis L.), and discovered o: r two 
later we found a fine Snowdrop a Wake jail L \ i af a pee Diet van ip nile the 
crags. —F. ood, Notts, April 21st, 1893. 
bout ng this year many pias eat “owerng three weeks earlier than 
sual ‘Pe of Hawthorn was in flower the last week in April. was 
Ch estnut Sunday 3 in Bushey Park on April aout a thing which rete not happened 
for thirty years.—J. G. B 
NOTES—MAMMALLIA. 
ear Market Weighto on.—On March 21st, Mr. Dunhill and som 
fri rni Arr ar M 
they unearthed a fine old dog penta (Meles taxus), _— , after a very fierce 
pepe they succeeded in uring. The Badger weighed 22 Ibs.—J. J+: 
HALL, Market Weighton, March 28th, cde 
Badger in East Yorks e last week of March, aS 
Mr. Mactall, ra Cottam, on the high Wolds i in vie vedo hood of Dri Driffield, 
w 
: ear e 
the chase, joined in, and eventually there was a field of seven or eight. When: 
near the monument the strange animal turned and headed back to Cottam, where 
it fell a o the after a run of eight miles. The dogs were beaten off, 
a 
inct in part of the country. Thijs rare trophy of the chase has been sent- 
to a taxide: rmist to be stuffed—J, J. MARSHALL, | Market ight 
April 1st, 1893. — : 
