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plij'sical chaii^'cs ; labitiulo and lon^itudo of areas previously occupied 

 as coiiiparud with Lu-day and " to-morrow " ; olovaLion, aspects; ex- 

 posures to morning, noon, and evening sunshine or shade ; and all 

 the inlluoncos brought to bear upon plant and insect life. It may bo 

 acknowledged tiiat such a statement as that quoted by Mr. Butter- 

 field from ' Newton's Dictionary ' (p. 1052) and Mr. Buttcrfield's own 

 local observations in Yorksliiro are equally correct. But even if so, 

 the two items are apart, Newton's being " broadly stated " for all 

 England, and Mr. Buttcrfield's being, as he himself tells us, confined 

 to "mid North-Wost Yorkshire," and therefore of local application 

 only and due to other factors besides latitttde and longitiide. The 

 complete ' Dictionary ' would liave been extended to many thousands 

 of pages had room been given to expand into details of local records 

 and their accompanying phenomena. — J. A. Harvie Brown. 



Black Redstart Nesting near Windsor. — I am writing (somewhat 

 late in the day) to place on record the discovery of a Black Redstart's 

 nest near Windsor, Bucks., in 1915. The nest was found by some- 

 one else, who did not study birds but only collected eggs, and hence 

 he did not observe the birds. There were six eggs in the nest. He 

 took three, giving one to me. The next day I went to the nest. It 

 was in a tin in a rubbish-heap in the middle of a field. The nest 

 was made very roughly of hay, lined with a few feathers. On arriving 

 I found a Toad had taken possession of the nest, and all the remain- 

 ing eggs were broken. Both birds were near by, and I am absolutely 

 certain of their identity. I have looked out for them this year, but 

 they have not arrived. The finder's name was G. N. Collins, and 

 the date of discovery was June 3rd, 1915. — ^N. Orde Powlett. 



CRUSTACEA. 



Educability of Galathea strigosa. — (1) On November 20th a fine 

 large specimen of Galathea strigosa, from Weymouth, was placed in 

 an aquarium. During its life in the tank, which lasted exactly a 

 hundred days, it ate pieces of Plaice, Goby, Fortimns marmoreus, 

 Eupagurus pubesccns, Shrimp, ^sop Prawn, Mussel, and beef. 

 The stages in its progress tow^ards tameness were very interesting. 

 Until the eleventh day of captivity it refused to eat anything, and 

 clung motionless upside-down to the roof of a shallow hole in the 

 rocks, showing extreme nervousness and crouching against the rock 

 on the approach of the feeding-forceps, or of one of the two Common 

 Spider-Crabs which shared its tank, and even when food was dropped 

 close to its head. It used its long cheke with a thrusting, rarely 



