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Recent Wiltshire Books and Articles. 



Ditto, No. 19, September, 1897. This number has as frontispiece an 

 excellent drawing of the old Dove Cote at Wick Farm, Notton. Mr. 

 Story Maskelyne's careful transcript of Benolt's Visitation of Wilts, 1532, 

 from the MS. in the British Museum, containing pedigrees of Seymour, 

 Bourchier, Pike, Page, Burley, Hungerford, Chocke, Bray brook, and Horsey, 

 is a valuable genealogical contribution. Mr. Talbot has a note on the 

 Bonham pedigree, and then follow ten pages of records connected with 

 Bratton. The continuation of Mr. Morres' paper on the breeding of 

 Hawkmoths contains some very suggestive hints for entomologists — but it 

 can hardly be said to be specially connected with Wiltshire. The first 

 instalment of A. Calendar of Feet of Fines for Wiltshire beginning with 

 Hen. VII., occupies the next ten pages, after which three pages of Quaker 

 Marriage Records and a few notes and queries conclude the number, which 

 as a whole is of very solid genealogical interest. 



Salisbury Field Club Transactions, vol. ii., part ii., pp. 87—122. This 

 number contains notes on the excursions of the club to Chichester, Wells, 

 and Mere in 1894, and of the general meeting in 1895, followed by a short 

 paper on Wells Cathedral, Transcripts of three Deeds relating to St. Giles' 

 Hospital, Wilton, and Notes on Marriages during the Commonwealth from 

 the Registers of East Knoyle. Perhaps the most valuable of the contents are 

 the Notes on the arms of Hyde, by the Rev. E. E. Dorling, with a drawing 

 of the arms on the brass plate on the tomb of Bishop Alexander Hyde, in 

 Salisbury Cathedral — not mentioned in Kite's Brasses of Wilts— and Mr. 

 Tatum's supplemental Notes on the Flora of South Wilts — in which a 

 valuable list is given of thirty-nine sub-species or varieties of Rubus, and 

 twenty-two of Rosa— very many of these difficult and little-kuown varieties 

 having never before been recorded for the county. 



Marlborough College Natural History Society's Report for the 

 Year 1895. No, 44. This report shows that much good work was done 

 during the year and that the society continued as vigorous as ever. It 

 commences with a short account of the meetings, lectures, and field-days 

 held during the year. Mr. Meyrick gives a valuable list of Birds of the 

 Marlborough District, with notes on each species, brought up to date. 

 Amongst the rarer species observed in recent years are the Woodchat Shrike, 

 Great Grey Shrike, Pied Flycatcher, Lesser Redpole, Crossbill, Cirl Bunting, 

 Snow Bunting, Woodlark, Wryneck, Roller, Hoopoe, Hobby, Merlin, 

 Bittern, Spotted Crake, and Bar-tailed Godwit. This is followed by a list 

 of the local Coleoptera, compiled by A. G. Jebb ; a catalogue of the Roman 

 Coins in the College Museum ; a Record of the Great Storm of June 26th, 

 when 2'71 inches of rain fell in three-quarters of an hour, with two photo- 

 graphs of the condition of the High Street after it. In the account of the 

 Botanical Section Salix reopens is noted as having been found between Stype 

 and Foxbury Woods. The Entomological Section record eleven species new 

 to the district. The number ends with the usual tables of Meteorological 

 Statistics and the Anthropometrical Report. 



