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THE TRACK OF THE STORM. From “ One and All Gardening.” 
dersfield) for January and February; The Naturalist, The Irish Naturalist, 
The Animal World, Our Animal Friends, The Parents Review, The Agri- 
cultural Economist, The Commonwealth, and The Estate Magazine for 
February. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
86. A Remarkable Cat Story. — I am able to supply an interesting 
parallel to the remarkable cat story from Birmingham ; it came to my hearing 
several years ago. Some of the Fellows of my College were assembled in the 
Common-room when they suddenly heard cries as of alarm and distress proceed- 
ing apparently from a cat. They could not at first account for them, but in a 
short lime they perceived that the Senior Fellow (whom I will call Mr. E.) was 
evidently in distress, and unable to explain his need of help. The cat (having 
the same instinctive knowledge of medicine as the Birmingham cat of the laws of 
gravitation) was loudly calltng attention to the fact, and the grateful Dons 
hastened to assist Mr. E. from his chair. I have the more pleasure in sending 
this because I had formerly believed — as had others — that Mr. E. was unwittingly 
sitting on the cat and that this caused her outcry. F. M. M. 
M.A. of Magdalen Coll., Oxford. 
