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to identify the falconer. The hawking Lord Orford died in 1 79 1 , 
and the mention of his falconer’s presence would point to the 
incidents related having happened more than thirty years before 
the description was published. Yet they were evidently fresh in 
tJie author’s recollection when he wrote them down, and it is 
possible they may have been noted at the time. On the other 
land the writer, perhaps, only meant to say, that the falconer had 
fonnerlij been in Orfbrd’s service, in which case Jan Daams may 
have been the man. He, however, does not seem to have been in 
England after 1808, in which year he was detained at Cuxhaven 
by Louis Bonaparte, though he lived till 1829. It is possible that 
he may have come again to this country, but his strange history 
must have been known to Downes, who would hardly hiil to tell 
It to his friend, the writer of the article, and one would expect it 
to bo therein mentioned had he been the man and the time so 
recent. On the whole, I should imagine the falconer to have been 
Jan Peels, Avho in one sense may be said to liave been Orford’s 
a coner, since he was a pupil of Daams, and as such must have 
been in Orford’s service. In 1826 he was in that of Downes as I 
have elsewhere stated (Appendix to Lubbock’s ‘Fauna of 
JNorfolk,’ ed. 2 , pp. 228, 231). 
III. 
DISCOVEPtY OF PEMAmS OF 
EMYS LUTARIA IN THE MUHDESLEY PIVER-BED. 
By Horace B. Woodward, F.G.S. 
Read 2,0th September, 1879 . 
Attention has recently been called to tlie discovery of remains of 
a freshwater lortoise in the Mundesley Piver bed. The specimen 
was found so long ago as 1863, by Mr. C. W. Ewing, of Eaton, 
but it was only this year that its true nature and seicntilic value’ 
were recognized by our Vice-President, Mr. T. G. Bayfield, to 
