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awake, and sends also a picture of the last British mammal to 
be discovered, the Orkney Vole, noticed by Mr. J. G. Millais in 
the Zoologist for July : Mr. A. C. Banfield is awarded a medal 
for thirty-two prints showing the different action of the cat and 
dog in jumping; Miss E. L. Turner sends some exquisite studies 
of peacocks, Mr. F. Martin Duncan two painfully life-like chame- 
leons, and Dr. G. H. Rodman a most valuable series of radio- 
graphs showing the internal structure of the shell in some forty 
different mollusks. 
THEY CALL ME POOR! 
They call me poor, though I am free 
Of all the country round ; 
Mine is the glory of the sea. 
The joys of sight and sound. 
Do I wish gold ? The nearest mead, 
Now gemmed with King-cups fine. 
Will satisfy my utmost greed 
From Treasuries divine. 
Do I lack music ? Yonder dell 
Will yield me sweetest song 
From Choristers I love so well, 
Who all to Heaven belong. 
Or in the soughing of the wind 
Where the dim pinewoods stand, 
Sublimest requiems shall I find 
Played by a Master hand. 
Do I crave beauty ? I may roam 
Through forests far and near. 
And see my future Heavenly Home 
Foreshadowed dimly hne. 
Call me not poor who see unrolled 
The pageants of the sky ! 
With beauty, song and endless gold. 
Who’s wealthy, if not 1 ? 
Karsficld, Torquay. 
F. B. Doveton. 
