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Hare, being the stronger of the two, has driven the other out of the 
European plain into the mountains. This supposition is further supported 
by the behaviour of the two species in Scotland, where their respective 
ranges meet.” 
Some other interesting facts are given as to the introduction of Irish 
Hares into Great Britain, and Scotch Hares in Ireland and South Scotland. 
Our excellent and invigorating contemporary, ‘Natural Science,’ in its 
last number, remarks on the present somewhat dilapidated condition of the 
Newcastle Museum—that is, the building, not the contents. ‘The con- 
nection of this Museum with Albany and John Hancock is well known, and 
many other naturalists of repute have carried on their work there. In con- 
sequence of this the collections are of more value than is usual in a 
provincial museum, and it is certainly some consolation to find” that the 
members of the Natural History Society of the Counties of Northumberland, 
Durkam, and Newcastle held a special meeting on March 16th to consider 
how funds could be raised to provide the necessary repairs. We are glad 
to see that considerable financial support was promised, and that before 
long there is every prospect of the necessary £2500 being acquired. 
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WE regret to notice the deaths of Mr. George Christopher Dennis, for 
many years President of the York and District Field Naturalists’ Society, 
which took place on the 22nd of last December; and of Mr. James I’Anson, 
a valued President of the Darlington and Teesdale Naturalists’ Field Club, 
on the 380th March. 
A SPECIMEN of the Common Sandpiper, seen in St. James's Park, is 
recorded in the ‘ Field’ of May 7th :—‘ On April 25th I had the unusual 
pleasure to a Londoner of seeing a Common Sandpiper (Totanus hypoleucus) 
in St. James’s Park, just outside the Cormorant’s inclosure, and on the edge 
of the island. I saw it alight, uttering its usual sharp note, and it seemed 
as much at home there as on a Welsh llyn or a Scottish lochside, stepping - 
daintily along, with much tail-waving, in search of food. The keeper had 
not seen it, though he knows the bird as a casual spring visitor there, and 
it is not unknown on passage on the Serpentine and the foreshore at 
Battersea.”—CuarLes H. Emson. 
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