MR. F. I). PALMER ON OLD-TIME YARMOUTH NATURALISTS. 
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was a member of the Norwich Microscopical Society for many 
years, until its extinction ; and a member of the Quekett Club 
until his death. He died from congestion of the lungs following 
cold caught at a meeting of the Lin mean Society, to which 
Arthur Bennett, lieeves, and Geldart accompanied him, on the 
17th February preceding his decease; it was a cold, frosty, sleety 
night, and ho never left his house afterwards. 
Roueut Rising. — This distinguished sportsman and collector, 
who died in March, 1885, aged 81, at his seat at Horsey, was the 
son of a gentleman of the same name who, in early life, commanded 
a Yarmouth vessel, and who was also a well known local ornithologist. 
Botli lather and son had ample opportunities for indulging their 
tastes in this direction, having been, in succession, proprietors of 
an estate which, in the latter part of the last century and the 
beginning of the present, was one of the chief haunts in Norfolk of 
all kinds of wild birds. The late Colonel Hawker, a frequent 
visitor to Mr. Robert Rising, sen., at Horsey, in his ‘Instructions 
to Young 8portsmen’ (4th ed. p. 374), records as follows: “The 
fens from Holme to Ramsay were, at one time, the best I had seen. 
But afterwards, in 1810, I found those near 
Winterton, in Norfolk (the private property of -I. B. Huntingdon 
and R. Rising, Esqs.), far superior; and the variety of wild birds 
here was such, that, in the breeding season, you might kill from 
twenty to thirty diiferent sorts in a day. Some, by the by, 
I had never seen before, and, if I mistake not, I was favoured 
with a sight of two or three that were not even in Bewick. 
In many parts you could scarcely walk without 
treading on the eggs of Terns, Plovers, Redshanks, and almost 
every other kind of marsh-bird. At certain times in the winter 
the fowl, on their passage from Holland to the South, dropped in 
here, and literally blackened the centre part of the lakes called 
Horsey Broad and Heigham Sounds.” In his recently-published 
‘ Diary,’ Colonel Hawker makes frequent allusions to his visits to 
Horsey and Somerton, where ho was alternately the guest of his 
friends, Mr. R. Rising, sen., and Mr. Huntingdon. The subject 
of our sketch, as a boy, thus had every opportunity, of which he 
did not fail to avail himself, of observing the habits of the 
numerous species of wild birds which resorted to Horsey in the 
