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twenty was seen, and the Kev. A. H. Evans says a pair certainly 
remained until the middle of May, and were supposed to have a 
nest; hut though he spent a long time looking for it, he did 
not find it. — J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
Tekgmalm’s Owl. On the 30th October, a Tengmalm’s Owl was 
captured at Cromer lighthouse, as it was fluttering on the sides of 
the lantern, about two o’clock in the morning, tbe wind being at 
the time S.S.E., cloudy and misty. I was on the hills shortly after, 
and anticipated the lighthouse-keeper, who was going to send it up. 
The bird w^as an adult male, not thin, and yet so light, that it 
only w'eighed three ounces and a half. The ear orifices are asym- 
metrical, and the skull larger on one side than the other. By the 
help of the wmodcuts in Dresser’s ‘Birds of Europe,’ I could feel 
this peculiarity through the skin. Another peculiarity in the 
species is that the median portion of the furcula is not ossified. 
J. H. Gurney, Jun. 
Lobelia urens, Linn. Some of our members who study the 
geography of plants, and the botanical linlis between our island and 
other lands, may be interested to hear that Lobelia urens, Linn., still 
gi'O'ws plentifully in its one English habitat, Trilmington Common, 
near Axminster. I went wdtli some friends last autumn to search 
for it, having been told it was disappearing, owing to cultivation 
and other causes. Though late in the season (the last week in 
October) we were fortunate enough to find three plants in bloom, 
and several in seed. I am happy to say that a close inspection of 
the ground showed an abundance of young plants springing up 
under the shelter of the long wiry stems of Carex paludosa and 
the coarse grasses wdiich form tussocks all over the hill side. 
A. M. Barnard. 
Memoir of Dr. S. P. WoodwxVRD. The following passage 
from a letter written by Sir Charles Lyell to Mr. Darwin (dated 
March 11th, 1SG3) is of interest in connection with the remarks 
on Evolution in the memoir of Dr. Woodward {anfe, p. 303 — 307). 
Lyell says: “Woodward is the best arguer I have met wdtli against 
natural selection and variation. He puts conchological difficulties 
against it very forcibly. He is at the same time an out-and-out 
progressionist” (‘Life, Letters, and Journals of Sir Charles Lyell, 
Bart.,’ vol. ii. p. 3G4).— H. B. Woodward. 
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