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I’KK.SIUEXT’s audres.^. 
retained, over a wide area, its normal eondition of reed-beds, 
treacherous bo^s, and watery w'astes. In this paradise for the 
fowler and collector, the resort in those days of all marsh- 
loving birds, whether migrants from the coast in spring and 
antnmn, fowl of all kinds in hard winters, or species, annually, 
remaining to breed in summer, now rare, or wholly extinct 
in the county, — i\Ir. Kising acquired that intimate knowledge 
of binl life Avhich such opportunities can alone afford ; with 
the eye and car alike trained by constant and careful observation. 
It is, indeed, to bo regretted that the fund of information he was 
ever ready to inq)art to others, of like tastes and pursuits, was not 
gathered, as in the case of the Rev. Richard I.ubbock, into a 
volume on local Ornithology. Fortunately, however, in the 
fine collection of birds preserved at his house, are most of 
the rarities that have been killed during many years past 
at Horsey, and the neighbouring coast line, with other objects 
of interest ; and, though the absorbing nature of his public 
duties had long deprived Mr. Rising of the leisure to enjoy his 
favourite pastime, the visit of a brother naturalist, by road or 
rail, or when yachting in the vicinity of Horsey Mere, was always 
a pleasure to him ; and his hospitable welcome, and genial manner 
in describing, from a well-stored memory, the treasures of his 
collection, wtis a treat to bo remembered by those fortunate enough 
to find so busy a man at home.” 
With one exception, all the papers read at our evening meetings 
will be published : a brief notice of them will therefore be all that 
you require of me. To Mr. Corder we arc indebted for a paper orl 
“Saffron.” ^Ir. Corder also read a note on a Poppy, Glaucium 
ftdvum, a native of southern Europe, which flowered last summer 
in his garden near ^lousehold, on some ground which had been 
recently trenched, and which he took to be the Orange Poppy 
mentioned by Sir Thomas Bro\Vn As occasionally springing up in 
the neighbourhood of Norwich in his time. At the same meeting 
^Ir. Southwell read a paper on the “ Reproduction of the Eel,” — 
which, I regret to savj will not appear in the ‘Transactions’ of 
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