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NATURE NOTES 
gapers, which stretch out their respiratory and cloaca-opening sluggishly from 
the sand.” 
Nature's Story of the Year. By Charles A. Witchell. T. Fisher Unwin. 
Price 2s. 
We are glad to see this cheaper reissue of a work which we commended on 
its first publication. 
Salads. By Horace J. Wright. Agricultural and Horticultural Association. 
Price id. 
The notion that English people are incapable of making a salad is borne out 
by the fact that many of us speak of lettuce as synonymous with salad. The 
Agricultural and Horticultural Association now issue a shilling collection of the 
seeds of twelve different salad plants. With these and Mr. Wright’s simple 
instructions as to their cultivation this reproach upon our domestic economy ought 
soon to be removed. 
Bulletin of the New York Botanical Garden , vol. v., No. 15. 
This number is made up exclusively of official business reports and a list of 
members. 
Bulletin of the United States National Museum , No. 51. 
This is a list of the publications of the Museum, from 1875 to 1900 inclusive. 
The Nature- Study Review , vol. ii. , No. I., besides an illustrated article on 
the evergreen trees of the United States, has several other admirable papers. 
Bird-Lore for January and February has two excellent coloured plates, one of 
Warblers, the other of the Cardinal Grosbeak or Virginian Nightingale, male and 
female — the former not only a brilliantly coloured bird but a most melodious 
songster — all the birds being represented half their natural size. 
Knowledge for March contains several papers of interest ; one, for instance, on 
rare living animals in London by Dr. Sclater, dealing with Ceralodus ; one by 
Mr. E. A. Martin on coast denudation, and another by Mr. J. Russell Larkby on 
the eolithic controversy. There are also the usual valuable series of notes ; those 
on botany edited by Mr. Massee, the geological ones by Mr. Martin, the ornitho- 
logical by Mr. Pycraft, and other zoological ones by Mr. Lydekker. 
Received : The Plant World for January ; The American Botanist for 
January and February ; Our Animal Friends and The Victorian Naturalist for 
February; and The Naturalist (Special Spring Number, price is. net), The Irish 
Naturalist , The Animals' Friend , The Animal World , The Humanitarian , The 
Parents' Review , The Agricullui al Economist , and The Estate Magazine for 
March. 
NATURAL HISTORY NOTES. 
336. Rooks and Recollections. — The Rooks at the Tower were 
unquestionably Rooks and not Jackdaws, as might be supposed. I have a 
most perfect recollection of them, and everybody called them Rooks and knew 
them to be Rooks ; they were called Royal Rooks, because they built in the 
crowns. Their nests were perfectly visible. I saw them there in the year 1837, 
and I think for two or three years afterwards. I passed them four times every 
day on my way to and from the City of London School in Cheapside. There 
was a daytime thoroughfare through the Tower Wharf. It was stopped during 
the Crimean War and for some years afterwards, but has been again reopened. 
Although it seems a very singular case, there is no doubt that they were Rooks. 
