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This Society probably existed for some years, as I have in my 
possession a MS. volume of his labours on various subjects, 
such as the Tides, Rainbows, Sound, Fire (or Motion), Tails of 
Comets, Ac. 
He has also left the MSS. of two sermons, one of them on 
“ Kindness to Animals,” taking the following sentence for his text : 
“ And the dogs came and licked his sores.” 
I have endeavoured, from the disjecta membra in my posses- 
sion, and the papers in ‘ Philosophical Transactions,’ to give you 
some idea of a man who, in spite of his humble position, and the 
disadvantages of a very moderate education, managed to obtain the 
esteem, not only of the wealthy and learned, but also of his 
employers proving that his taste for scientific pursuits did not 
prevent his being a good man of business. 
Y. 
NOTES ON NORFOLK MAMMALIA. 
Communicated by Frank Norgate. 
Read February, 1878. 
Great Bat (Vespertilio noctula). On the 27th of October, 
1874, I examined an old nesting hole of Picas viridis, about thirty 
feet from the ground, in the top of a dead Lombardy poplar stump, 
in Sparham. On cutting the nest open I found a <j? Noctule, 
hanging by its hind feet It was hairy armed to the thumb, and 
the fur was bright chestnut. In the parish of Dilham, on the 
10th of May, 1875, I took three Noctules, two ?s, and one 
£ , from an old woodpecker’s hole, about thirty feet from the 
ground, in a* Scotch fir. The hole had probably been bored by 
Picus major, but I am not certain, as the edges were much decayed 
and chipped. There were five (if not more) bats in this hole, two 
which escaped appeared to be Noctules. My attention had been 
attracted by the squeaking of the bats. 
