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of those who may become possessed of rare birds and beasts will be 
to make as perfect a local collection as possible at home, before 
allowing anything which is a desideratum here, to pass into the 
hand of strangers. 
In looking through a list of Norfolk birds, I noted thirty-nine 
species of extreme rarity, obtained in the Yarmouth district, many 
of these had been met with only once or twice before they were 
recognised at Yarmouth, and nine of them, viz., the Caspian Plover, 
Broad-billed Sandpiper, Pectoral Sandpiper, Siberian Pectoral, 
White-winged Black Tern, Mediterranean Black-headed Gull, 
Bed Crested Pochard, Buttie-headed Puck, and Steller's Duck, 
have all either been met with in no other locality in Great Britain, 
or were killed in the lirst instance in the Yarmouth district. 
I trust I have not been tiresome in my imperfect remarks with 
regard to the days that are past, but that 1 may have succeeded in 
showing how surpassingly rich this eastern sea-board is in at least 
the section of ornithology, and how brilliant an example has been 
set us by our predecessors in the field ; I would urge, more especially 
upon the rising generation, the desirability of taking up the 
systematic, study of some particular branch of natural science; it 
adds immensely to the pleasures of life to possess some general 
acquaintance with the whole field of nature, and I would deprecate 
in the strongest terms anything like exclusiveness or the under- 
valuing of the work of their fellow-labourers, some reap the 
corn, some dress it ; but if you wish to gain distinction, a very 
difficult thing to achieve in the present day, and to add to the sum 
of knowledge, it can only be done by the close study of some 
particular one out of the many branches into which natural science 
is divided, and it appears to me that there are at least two fields of 
research open to the Yarmouth naturalists, first, the fishes which so 
abound on our coast, and for the study of which Yarmouth offers 
peculiar facilities (I am sure my friend Mr. Patterson will support 
me in this) ; but more than any other I would commend to your 
attention the almost virgin field offered by the Marine Inverte- 
brate, a class hitherto totally neglected. In a town noted for its 
Crustaceans, and sending out daily quite a fleet of boats for their 
