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LETTER TO THE EDITOR. 
Sir, — Could you not occasionally find room to commemorate 
some Selbornians who were not of Selborne, who were not, 
nevertheless, m ute, inglorious Selbornians in their day ? For 
example, Robert Marsham, F.R.S., the squire of Stratton 
Strawless, Norfolk, who died at the Hall in 1797, aged 90, and 
who employed some of those ninety years in observing the 
indications of Spring, which were embodied in a neatly arranged 
table which has been printed and published more than once. 1 
These observations extended in most cases considerably over 
fifty, and in one case to sixty-two years. They consist of the 
earliest and latest appearances, in a course of years, of swallows, 
cuckoos and others of our summer visitors, the leafing of trees, 
&c. 
Stratton Strawless, the manor of which had been held by 
the IMarsham family since the time of Edward I., has now 
passed into other hands, but the trees around the Hall, notably 
a cedar of Lebanon, planted by Mr. Marsham in 1747, now 
some 80 feet high, with a trunk over 14 feet in girth, and also 
some magnificent beeches, with his “ Observations,” testify 
alike to his industry and to his love of Nature. 
The table above-mentioned was originally published in large 
sheet form, and has of late years been re-issued by the Norfolk 
Natural History Society. There is also a copy in reduced size 
in the Introduction to Chambers’ “ History of Norfolk.” 
J.H. 
A LIST OF THE BRITISH MAMMALS. 
By W. R. Dawson. 
\The following list docs not include do?nesticutcd animals.] 
Names in square brackets are those admitted to the British list on very 
slender evidence. 
I. — The Bats {Chiyoptera). 
VESPERTILIONincE. 
Noctule {Pleyygistes noctula). 
Hairy-armed Bat (B. leisleri). 
Pipistrelle [Pipistrdlus pipistrellus). 
Serotine {Vespertilio serotinus). 
Long-eared Bat {Plecotus auritus). 
Barbastelle [Barbastclla barhastellus). 
[Bechstein’s Bat {Myotis Bechsteini).] 
Natterer’s Bat (M. Nattereri). 
Daubenton’s Bat {M. Daubeutoni). 
Whiskered Bat (/If. niysiaciniis). 
