THE MILD WINTER 
Sir. — It is perhaps worth re- 
cording among the curious results 
of our so-far mild winter that on 
New Year’s Day, in a sheltered 
bank here, a wasps’ nest was still ^ 
in full activity. Apart from this, 
the latest date I have for a wasps* 
nest in this neighbourhood is 
December 18 th— in 1951. — Yours, 
etc.’ 
Bally Olaf, 
Dundrum, Co. Dublin. 
January 2nd, 1954. 
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