Recent Wiltshire Books, Pamphlets, Articles, &c. 347 



there is one mistake — the whole county is placed in the diocese of 

 Salisbury, whereas some eighty parishes in the north belong to the 

 diocese of Bristol. 



Noticed, Devizes Gazette, Sept. 6th, 1909. 



Report of the Marlborough College Natural History- 

 Society for the year ending Christmas, 1908. 



No. 57. Marlborough: 1909. 



I The report records, as usual, good work done by many of the sections 



of the society during 1908. There is, as usual, an elaborate series of 

 meteorological observations for the year from the summary of which it 

 appears that the mean temperature was 47.7° — almost exactly normal. 

 The rainfall was 26.11 inches — about 5f inches below the corrected 

 average for thirty-three years, which is 31.80. 



In the ornithological section the most remarkable notices are of a 

 Peregrine Falcon shot near Marlborough, in September, by a man in the 

 employ of Mr. Lyne, of Barton Farm ; and a Fork-tailedPetrel(C^»zo^Aorea 

 leuchorrhoa) found dead, which has been placed in the College Museum. 



In the botanical section Vicia lathyroides, a plant new to the district, 

 was found rather commonly on dry banks at Wroughton, and Epilobium 

 nummular if olium, a New Zealand species, is mentioned as having 

 apparently established itself at Marlborough. Centaurea solstitialis 

 too, occurred near Aldbourne. 



There is a note on the great snowstorm of April 25th, 1908, when the 

 snow was 13in. deep at Marlborough, and three striking photographs 

 of The High Street, Dr. Maurice's Garden, and The Riverside on that 

 day are given. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 64, Bee. 1908. 



Mr. E. Kite has a valuable contribution to Wiltshire Bibliography 

 in an article on " Wiltshire Topography [1659 — 1843] with some notes 

 on the late Sir Thomas Phillipps and his Historical Collections for the 

 County," illustrated by a portrait of Sir T. Phillipps. Mr. Kite gives a 

 catalogue of the principal Wiltshire materials printed by Sir Thomas 

 Phillipps, and extracts from the Eibliotheca Phillippsiana, a list of the 

 more important Wiltshire MSS. in his collection. The sale of this 

 collection has been going on at irregular intervals since 1886, the 

 thirteenth sale having taken place on June 13th, 1908. Much of the 

 collection still remains to be disposed of. In addition to the various 

 articles continued from the last number, there are notes on Dositheus 

 Wyer, Vicar of Chitterne, and a long review by Mr. Kite of Canon Mayo's 

 A Genealogical Account of the Mayo and Elton Families of Wilts 

 and Herefordshire. 



NO. 65, March, 1909. "The Association 



I Oath Rolls for Wiltshire." The association was one that was formed 



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