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NATURE NOTES 
Royal Protection for Birds. — It having been stated that 
a contractor had agreed to supply a London milliner with 
10,000 seagulls’ wings for the trimming of women’s hats in the 
coming season, Lady Florence Dixie wrote some verses de- 
nouncing the cruelty, and sent them through Miss Charlotte 
Knollys to the King and Queen. She has recived the following 
reply : — “ Marlborough House, S.W., February 17, 1902. Dear 
Lady Florence, I have given the verses you sent to the King 
and Queen, and I am sure that their Majesties will do all in their 
power to stop this cruel massacre of the poor little birds. It is 
really too sad and terrible. Yours very truly, Charlotte 
Knollys.” 
Gilbert White’s Sermons. A Query. — Mr. E. A. Martin 
writes from 23, Campbell Road, Croydon : — 
“ At the sale of the Gilbert White manuscripts, which took place at Sotheby’s 
on April 26th, 1895, o* White’s sermons, in his own handwriting, entitled 
‘ On Behaviour at Church,’ was put up for auction. It was endorsed as having 
been preached etween 1749 and 1792 . Unfortunately, although present at the 
time, I did not catch the name of the purchaser. I am anxious now to ascertain 
the present location of the sermon in question. Can any reader of N.\ture 
Notes assist me ” 
Memorial to a Selbornian. — The February number of The 
Stone Trades' Journal contains an illustration of the marble tomb- 
stone recently erected at Knowle, Dorsetshire, to the memory of 
Laurence W. Pike, who died in August last. The memorial, 
which is by Messrs. Harry Hems and Sons, of Exeter, represents 
our late member among his friends, the squirrels, in a pine 
wood. 
Our Illustrations.^ — It should have been more explicitly 
stated in our last number that all the illustrations in that number 
were from Mr. English’s “ Photography for Naturalists.” 
BIRDS IN WINTER. 
[Reprinted, by kind permission, from the Standard of February 4 th.) 
HE frost, which showed signs yesterdaj' of breaking up 
in London, had lasted quite long enough in the greater 
part of England to cause considerable distress among 
the bird population. The vivacity of even the London 
sparrow was visibly checked ; and all bird lovers who possessed 
any kind of apology for a garden at the back made a point, we 
hope, of throwing out crumbs, with any bits of fat, suet or other 
refuse that could be spared, to eke out the scanty means of 
subsistence which such a season as the present affords him. It 
should be remembered that birds find it necessary to drink as 
well as to eat, and a little water put out for them where they can 
