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who writes, ‘ I cannot find the berries are used for any purpose 
at the present day, but am told at one time the old folks used 
them for making wine, and also jam.’ 
Prior, ‘Popular Names of British Plants,’ p. 273 (1870), 
gives ‘ Sallow-thorn,’ ‘ Willow-thorn.’ 
The prefix occurs in Wiveton or Wiverton, a village in 
Norfolk, and ‘ Wive-ton, the settlement of the people of Wiva.’ 
Morley, Eng. Writers, 1, p. 247. 
Is there any local name for it in Lincolnshire? Dr. Lees’ 
‘ Botany and Outline Flora of Lincolnshire’ (1892), and Rev. 
A. Woodruffe-Peacock, The Naturalist, p. 185 (1896), give 
none. Halliwell, ‘ Dictionary of Archaic Words,’ gives 
Whibibble, a whinn, East.’ 
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The Proceedings of the University of Durham Philosophical Society, 
Vol. VI., Pt. 2, contains, among many items, ‘ Some Aspects of Mining 
Laws under the Roman Empire,' by H. Louis, and ‘ The Concept of 
Behaviour from the Standpoint of Biology,’ by F. W. Flattely. 
‘ The Proceedings and Reports of the Belfast Natural History and 
Philosophical Society for 1920-21 have recently appeared (177 pp.), and 
include ‘The Birds of Hillsborough,’ by N. H. Foster, ‘Chapters in 
Modern Botany,’ by J. Small, ‘Many Inventions : a Study in Natural 
History,’ by J. A. Thomson, ‘ and ‘ The Wonderland of the Wasps,’ by 
J. Ward. 
We have received the Report of the Marlborough College Natural 
History Society, No. 70, which contains no fewer than 62 pages, each 
packed with admirable matter of natural history or archaeological 
interest. We should like to congratulate this Society on its publication, 
which is much more substantial than that of many of the important 
natural history societies. 
The Report of the Felsted School Scientific Society, No. 27 (48 pages), 
is especially valuable from the carefully prepared Zoological Notes, and 
an admirably illustrated paper on ‘ Photographing the Great Crested 
Grebe ’ by Mr. J. H. Owen. Reports of other sections of the Society’s 
activities are also given. It is pleasing to find the substantial way in 
which the study of natural history is dealt with at some of these larger 
schools. 
Mr. Arthur Bennett favours us with a reprint of his notes on ‘ Pyrola 
rotundi folia Linn, in Caithness, with Notes on the Genus, ’ in which he 
records a form chloranthifora, and says that the form on the Durham 
coast, near Hordean Hill, should be looked up again ; and V accinium 
Myrtillus Linn. var. pygmaeus Ostenfeld, f. microphyll'a Lange, in litt. to 
Beeby, a form from the Isle of Arran (2,345 ft.) ; reprinted from the 
Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 
The recently formed Isle of Wight Natural History Society has issued 
Part I. of its Proceedings (48 pp., 2/-). There is a useful summary of 
the meetings and excursions between December, 1919, and December, 
1920. J. F. Rayner gives an account of the Fungi ' (in two sections) ; 
the President, G. W. Colenut, describes The Double Tide of the Solent ; 
Commander G. C. C. Damant gives results of his experiences as a diver 
with the title ‘Submarine Natural History’; and G. E. Gilchrist 
writes on ‘ Sandown Meterology.’ There are other meteorological and 
natural history notes by various members. We congratulate the editor, 
Mr. F. Morey, on the excellence and local character of his first publication. 
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