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Sundays; prohibiting all taking or destroying of eggs along the 
cliffs and in the Alexandra Park ; protecting certain species and 
their eggs all the year round throughout the County Borough ; 
adding a number of species to the Schedule of the Act of i8:io, 
and extending the close time from the last day of February to 
September i. 
For the County of Salop an Order has been issued repealing 
that of August 4, 1897; protecting the Goldfinch, Kingfisher, 
Owls, Redpole, Siskin and Woodpeckers from July 31 to March 
2 ; prohibiting the taking of the eggs of most of these and of 
some other species, and adding Flycatchers, Swallows, Wag- 
tails, &c., to the schedule of the Act of 1880. 
An Order has also been issued for the County of Chester, 
repealing that of March 29, 1901 ; protecting all birds and tlieir 
eggs throughout the year in the greater part of the low-lying 
hundred of Wirral, between the Dee and the Mersey, except in 
market-gardens ; extending the close time from March i to 
August 13 ; adding the Heron and the Kestrel to the Schedule of 
the Act of 1880 ; prohibiting the killing of birds on the Dee and 
the Mersey within the County, and the killing of Gulls and 
Terns in certain parishes, and protecting the Goldfinch, King- 
fisher, Bittern, Shoveller Duck, Grebes, Nightjar, Owls, Brown 
Linnet, Lesser Redpole, Siskin, Twite and Woodpeckers 
throughout the County during the whole year. 
THE POLLINATION OF THE PRIMROSE. 
By a Field Naturalist, M.A. 
R. WEISS, of IManchester, last year (1903) published 
a pamphlet on the “ Pollination of the Primrose.” 
As the pamphlet did not appear until June I thought 
it better to defer any notice of it until the primrose 
season had again returned, so that any one interested in the 
relation of insects to the primrose might have the opportunity 
of observing it and judging of it themselves. 
This pamphlet was written by Dr. Weiss for the purpose 
of elucidating “ the manner in which the pollination of the 
primrose is effected,” and when published was distributed. 
Dr. Weiss kindly forwarded a copy to myself, as in it he 
specially refers to “ a more recent publication, entitled ‘ The 
Primrose and Darwinism,’ by A Field Naturalist” (Grant 
Richards). 
After extended and minute examination of the flowers during 
some years, I concluded as the result of my investigations that 
the primrose convincingly disproves certain theories of Darwin 
about heterostyled flowers. Two of these theories of Darwin, 
out of six which are mentioned in the above book, only need be 
