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fche green had an advantage, in coming next the violet. In consider- 

 ing fche difference between the yellow and green, we must remember 

 also that the green was decidedly more opaque than the yellow. 



The case of the violet glass is more marked and more interesting. 

 To our eyes the violet was as opaque as the red, more so than the 

 green, and much more so than the yellow. Yet, as the numbers 

 show, the ants had no tendency whatever to congregate under it. 

 There were in fact quite as many under the same area of the uncovered 

 portion of the nest as under that shaded by the violet glass. 



It is obvious that these facts suggest a number of interesting in- 

 ferences. I must however repeat the observations and make others, 

 but we may at least I think conclude from the preceeding that ants 

 have the power of distinguishing colors, and that they are very sensi- 

 tive to violet, It would also seem that their sensations of color must 

 be very different from those produced upon us. 



%\\ €arlg Wmwxhx Jtoice* 



By the Eev. H. T. Kingdon. 



{Read before the Society at Warminster, 22nd August, 1877.) 



PgNYTHING which helps to throw light upon the great 

 movement which resulted in the Reformation of the Church 

 of England cannot fail to be of interest. It is only in consequence 

 of this persuasion that I venture to offer a few remarks upon a short 

 service which I found some years ago in a fine manuscript portfory, 

 or breviary of Sarum use, in the custody of the Dean and Chapter 

 of this diocese. Much is now known about the stirrings of heart 

 which led to the Reformation,, but there is, without doubt, much 



