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applies to the removal, disturbance, or destruction of eggs. By isolated 

 property is meant what is surrounded to the height of at least a metre by 

 a wall, hedge, screen, fence, or trellis, or surrouuded to the breadth of at 

 least two metres by a ditch of a depth of at least 1 metre 50 centimetres 

 below the surface of the ground. 



Article 6. — Except in the cases described in Articles 3, 4, and 5, all 

 infractions of Articles 1 and 2 will be punished by a fine of from 50 cents 

 to 20 guldens. The repetition of the offence within two years, or repeated 

 cases, may be punished by a double maximum fine, or by imprisonment of 

 at least one day and at most seven. 



Article 7. — On each offence, the dead or captured animals, together 

 with the eggs, and all objects by which the offence was committed, shall be 

 seized. Living animals will be set at liberty. The dead animals and the 

 eggs will be given to the officials to be destroyed. 



Article 8. — The carrying out of this law is administered by the officers 

 of the Royal or communal police, and by the officials of the Treasury." 





NOTES AND QUERIES, 



The late John Jenner Weir, F.L.S., F.Z.S., F.E.S. — It is with 

 much regret that we have to notice the death of this ardent naturalist, 

 in his seventy-second year, on the 23rd March last. Mr. Jenner Weir 

 was born at Lewes in August, 1822. He early displayed a keen love for 

 Natural History, and with his brother, Mr. Harrison Weir, kept a multitude 

 of living creatures, at one time having no less than a hundred different 

 species of vertebrates in captivity. The scientific spirit manifested itself in 

 careful observation of their habits and in experimental breeding. In 1840, 

 it would seem from his diary, that he had definitely turned his attention 

 to Ornithology, but this was merely an indication of the growth of his love 

 for Natural History generally, for in 1844 we find him "treacling" the 

 palings of the garden at Camberwell, whither his parents had removed 

 from Lewes in 1831. In 1845 his first note was published; it appeared 

 in *The Zoologist,' and clearly shows the close and accurate observation 

 and spirit of scientific enquiry which continued his habit throughout life. 

 The note is on an entomological subject, and the few observations from his 

 pen which are scattered throughout the volumes of 'The Zoologist' are 

 indiscriminately entomological and ornithological. But while these were 

 his chief hobbies, he took all nature for his province, and no branch of 

 Natural History was without interest to him. He was a sparing writer, 

 putting his observations into the most concise language and the fewest 

 words ; indeed he had a vast store of knowledge that the world would gladly 



