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of more permanent preservation than their original pamphlet form 

 promised ; and the other shorter stories added to them here are many of 

 them very amusing. Of the longer ones the " Zelect Invitation Ball " is 

 perhaps the best — but they are all quite worth reading by anyone who 

 knows the Wiltshire tongue. Those who do not, and don't want to learn it, 

 had best leave the book alone, for it is written in genuine South Wiltshire 

 dialect throughout. It is not an easy thing to catch Mr. Slow napping, 

 I but there is one word used several times in this volume that we had 

 I always regarded as exclusively the property of the fancy " Rustic " in 

 novels and the comic papers. Does Mr. Slow really assert that a genuine 

 Wiltshire labourer would say " Howsomdever " ? 



Kelly's Directory of Wiltshire, 1898. This, the loth 



edition, of this useful work of reference, is distinguished from its pre- 

 decessors by a new map of the county, a great improvement on that of 

 previous editions, where for years Stanton Fitzwarren appeared in the 

 Vale of Pewsey and many other strange vagaries were conspicuous. These 

 seem now to have disappeared, and the map is very much up-to-date, 

 marking even the light railways from Pewsey to Upavon and from 

 Salisbury to Amesbury, neither of which have as yet passed beyond the 

 stage of talk. 



Marlborough College Natural History Report for 



the ITear 189S contains the usual report of lectures and field- 

 days, the latter at Liddington, Calstone, Manningford, Shalbourne, and 

 Chedworth. 



In the Botanical section one new species — Cotyledon umbilicus — was 

 found at Pewsey. It is curious that this plant, so abundant in many places, 

 should be so entirely absent from the Marlborough neighbourhood. 

 Thlaspi arvense, Carum Carui, and Carex remota were other rarities 

 found during the year, the total number of flowering plants observed 

 being four hundred and seventeen. 



The Entomological section has a large record for the year — no less 

 than nine species of Lepidoptera, new to the district, having been added 

 to the list, which now numbers one thousand and seventy-one. The new 

 species are:— Uraba strigula, Scoparia truncicolella, JEpiblema im- 

 mundana, Commophila amandana, Elachista trapeziella, Afompha 

 Schrankella, Nepticula argentipedella, Lithocolletis nigrescentella, and 

 Lithocolletis Kleemannella. A number of other rare species were also 

 taken. 



The Geological, Ornithological, and Archaeological sections seem to 

 have nothing special to report. 



Wiltshire Notes and Queries, No. 26, June, 1899. 



" Old Lackham House and its Owners," illustrated with a full-page 

 plate of the arms on the monument of Col. Baynard, in Lacock Church, 

 and blocks of the Baynard shield and of one of the figures from (ho 

 Baynard brass, rills fourteen pages of this number with accurate and 



