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would doubtless have met its fate, but that gentleman caused it 
to be removed in May, I860, to his then garden at Harfrey’s Road, 
where it now flourishes ; and I quite remember it going there by 
waggon, with a considerable quantity of its native soil attached to 
its roots, and it appears to have taken somewhat kindly (although 
at first it did not bear fruit, and has not greatly increased in size) 
to the fresh conditions thus imposed upon it. — F. Danby Palmer. 
W infarthing Oak. — Just twenty years ago (July 7th, 1874) 
a party of us met under the old Winfarthing Oak, and 1 read a 
little paper concerning it, which was published in the ‘ Transactions.’ 
Up to that date, from 17%, time seems to have injured the line 
old tree but little, but between 1874 and the present date much 
mischief has been done by storms; much of the upper timber has 
fallen into the interior, nearly filling the great cavity. The foliage 
this year is black with a ‘ smut,’ and the acorns are small and few. 
I should state, however, that many other Oaks in the neighbourhood 
are in a similar unhealthy condition. I visited it on the 5th of 
last September, and again measured it, finding, to my surprise, that 
it had lost 18 inches in circumference since 1873. It was then 
40 feet, and is now only 38 feet 0 inches. I do not know how 
to account for this, unless some stonu-crash has shivered off a 
portion of the outer wood ; but I hear, on good authority, that 
the great Cowthorpe Oak, in the West Riding, has also diminished 
in girth to an even larger extent. The other fine old wreck at 
Winfarthing, probably but little the junior of our venerable 
friend, has still a leafy branch, and is but little altered since 
1873. — Thomas 0. Amyot. 
Solar IIalo. — This somewhat uncommon phenomenon was 
observed at Lynn on Friday, 25th May, 1894. The well-marked 
halo was distinctly visible to the unprotected eye at about eleven 
in the morning. Possibly it was visible before then, but that is the 
hour at which it was first noticed by the schoolboys at the Lynn 
Grammar School. About 1.30 it was very clearly seen by shielding 
the eye from the intense glare of the sun with a piece of smoked 
or coloured glass. The circle was complete and of large size. 
At times, when the sun became a little obscured, parts of the 
halo were visible to the naked eye. Some observers were of 
opinion that at the most favourable times prismatic colours were 
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