LONDON AND SUBURBS. Si 



104 [L. perenne.] Rye grass had almost the same fate. 

 It grew small and very slender, spinkot, while Bromus 

 87 [var. secalini] and Alopecurus, 52 [A. Pratensis. L.] 

 thrive in this earth very well. I particularly noticed in 

 the case of the Bromus, that it here formed the longest 

 and principal grass-growth on nearly all the meadows 

 round London, and grew to a length of 2 feet 6 inches or 

 3 feet, whereas in Sweden, on the dry sand hills, it com- 

 monly is not over 4 inches high, slender, and miserable. 

 [Defer American Note.] 



Vagglos fordom sallsynte i Angland. " Wall-lice " 

 or bugs formerly rare in England. 



Mr. Catesby said that about twenty years ago they 

 hardly knew here in England what a " Wall-louse" was ; 

 but since that time they had travelled over here in ships 

 from foreign countries, so that there are now few houses 

 in London in which these least welcome guests have not 

 quartered themselves.* 



Hum Foglar och Piskar i en natural Samling 

 bast conserveras. How Birds and Fishes are best preserved 

 in a collection. 



Mr. Catesby described the method which he had 

 used on his travels to prepare and preserve birds and 

 fishes, which he designed for his collection. It consisted 

 in this, that when he had got a bird he took [T. I. 

 p. 422] the entrails, inalfvorna, out of it, then 

 sprinkled snuff all over the inside, put it in an oven, 



♦"Their original name was Chinchc or ' Wall -louse '( Kay. Hist, 

 insect. 7), and the term Bug, which is a Celtic word, Wei. Bwg, signifying a 

 ghost or goblin, was applied to them after Ray's time " [d. 1674]. " Bug " 

 in its old sense e.g. " Thou shalt not nede to be afraid of any bugs by night " 

 (Mathew's Bible Ps. xci. S), Winter's Tale, III., 2. 3, also in King Henry 

 VI., S, 2, and in Cymbdine twice, became obsolete. (Kirby and Spence, 

 Entomol. Let. IV ) (J. L.] 



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