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We left several more, which were damaged speci- 

 mens, on the trees. From a female we got several 

 eggs, and have a nice quantity of larvne, feeding well 

 on Scotch fir for the last ten days." — JVoodbridge, 

 Suffolk. 



Grapta C. album in North Wales. — In the 

 middle of Augnst last, one of my sons captured a 

 good specimen of Grapta C. album at the foot of 

 Penmaenmawr, North 'Wales. As in my copy of 

 Newman's Natural History of British Butterflies and 

 Moths, no capture of this insect -is recorded in Car- 

 narvonshire or any of the adjoining counties of North 

 Wales, the occurrence may be of interest to your 

 entomological readers. — M. J. Fendale. 



" Pond-life Studies." — Allow me to point out 

 that the first of Mr. H. Durrani's " Pond-life studies " 

 on Cyclops quadricornis is full of inaccuracies, and is 

 most misleading as to the state of our knowledge of 

 this interesting genus. For the benefit of those 

 really wishing to know something about the " com- 

 mon Cyclops," I may mention that in the first volume 

 of Professor G. S. Brady's Monograph of the British 

 Copepoda (Ray Society, 1S7S) they will find many 

 species carefully figured and described, and further 

 that the same author published last J*ear, in the 

 Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, 

 Durham, and Newcastle, a complete revision of the 

 genus, with a description of twenty British species. 

 This paper, entitled, " A Revision of the British 

 Species of Fresh-water Cyclopidae and Calanid^e," is 

 now issued separately by Messrs. Williams & Nor- 

 gate. — D. J. Scourfield. 



The Gallinaceous Quail. — This quail has 

 hitherto been regarded as an unknown quantity in 

 the game preserves around Burton, but when we 

 hear of a nest of the bird's eggs being found on the 

 sewage-farm , and one or two well-known guns turning 

 up half-a-dozen specimens, we may begin to look for 

 their inclusion in the list of bags which are published 

 from time to time. Sportsmen will be interested in 

 learning that quite recently the hon. member for the 

 division (Mr. S. Evershed) and his sons flushed five 

 and killed four at Grangewood. Eighteen years ago, 

 when Mr- Evershed first took to the land, he killed a 

 quail, but no such experience has fallen to his gun 

 during the long lapse of years until the present 

 time. 



GEOLOGY. 



Neolithic Implements. — I came across a cir- 

 cumstance the other day which is sufficiently out of 

 the way to record in your pages. The quiet village 

 of Eastdean, which nestles in the valley at the back 

 of Beachy Head, is less than four miles from East- 

 bourne. There can be found a garden with terraces. 



The retaining walls are of flint, low and somewhat 

 loose. To the most casual observer they seem un- 

 usual. To a keen eye it is at once apparent that 

 very many of the flints are worked. Close examina- 

 tion proves that all are more or less interesting and 

 perfect neoliths. Then the astounding fact comes 

 out that one man, by the most active industry, within 

 a radius of five miles from his own house has 

 collected so many stone tools, that after keeping in 

 his collection thousands of beautiful specimens, he 

 has used thousands more in his garden facing-banks. 

 One knows not which to wonder at most, the 

 wealth of such tools in this district, or the astounding 

 industry of Mr. Hilton in seeking them. How many 

 miles of weary plodding such a collection represents, 

 only those who have tried know. Now they are 

 collected they gain (and should give to all) great 

 interest, and it is to be fervently hoped that the 

 county of Sussex will prevent their dispersal. All 

 those who are interested in prehistoric history, owe 

 to Mr. Hilton a debt of gratitude for the valuable 

 lessons to be found in his most important and unique 

 collection. — H. Stopes. 



NOTES AND QUERIES. 



Remarkable Specimen of Tway-blade. — In 

 June 1S90, I met with a specimen of Tway-Blade 

 very similar to the one figured in your issue of this 

 month, except that there was no flower-stalk at all, 

 the third small leaf seemed to take its place. I 

 found it on Tyler's Hill, near Chesham, an outlier of 

 the London clay — an interesting place, I should think, 

 for both botanist and geologist. At the same time I 

 found there ALcidium primula in abundance, "not a 

 common " fungus, Dr. Cooke says, in " Rust, Smut, 

 and Mildew." By the way a new edition, up to 

 date, is sadly wanted of this book ; the last was, I 

 believe, issued in 1S78. — J. W. Walker. 



The Preservation of Sea-Urchins. — Would 

 some collector kindly insert a short article on the 

 preservation of sea-urchins, showing how to preserve 

 them so as to keep their spines from dropping off? 

 I have tried over and over again and failed. — 

 A. Bennetts. 



A Rival to the Toad in the Rock. — I enclose 

 a cutting from a local newspaper, giving an account of 

 a most curious discovery, about which it is certainly 

 necessary to have "more light." Are we to accept 

 it as the outcome of American humour, or the 

 product of the silly season . - It seems to be one of those 

 very tall stories that originate only in the New 

 World. " What is, with apparent reason, claimed 

 to be the most interesting combined entomological 

 and mineralogical specimen in existence is now (says 

 Iron) on view in the office of an El Paso newspaper. 

 Some months ago, it appears, a Mr. White was 

 presented with a sample of ore taken at a considerable 

 depth from the Longfellow Mine, Clifton, Arizona. 

 When the mineral was fractured, a beetle of a dull 

 reddish-grey colour, as perfect in form as it had been 

 in life, was exposed to view, surrounded by a closely- 

 fitting shell of iron ore. Naturally much impressed 

 with his coleopteral prize, Mr. White hastened to 



