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THE NATURALISTS JOURNAL. 
caps (,Sylvia atricapilla) have been exceedingly scarce, I have 
not seen a nest. 
August 13th, 1893. Rambler. 
TO CORRESPONDENTS. 
We trust that this number of the Naturalists' Journal will 
give satisfaction to all our readers, the advantage of the increased 
space being very evident, while the separation of the “ Sale and 
Wanted” and “ Exchange ” columns from the reading matter is 
also an improvement that was much needed. 
As several readers, however, will not see their contribu¬ 
tions in this issue, we may say that, owing to the number of 
articles and notes sent in, we have still a number left over, which 
will appear as early as possible. 
We shall be glad to hear from contributors who can favour 
us with articles for the Practical Naturalist column, on any sub¬ 
ject which has not yet appeared, as we wish to make this feature 
of the Journal as complete and useful as possible. 
G. J, W., Cheltenham. —See Correspondence ; article came 
to hand and shall be inserted next month. 
M. B., Bellagto.--- Your article entitled “ Natural History of 
a voyage to Buenos Ayres,” will appear in the October number. 
All Communications for the Naturalists’ Journal 
should be addressed to the Office; P.O.’s, should be made pay¬ 
able to H. K. Swann, at “ Euston Road.” 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
A Dragon-fly in the City. —-Mr. W. Nicholson, junr., writes as 
follows : “ Many of your readers will be interested to hear that on July 28th, 
in the busy thoroughfare of Fleet Street, I caught a large dragon-fly, outside 
the ‘Agent’s Journal’ office.” Mr. Nicholson does not say what kind of 
dragon-fly it was, but we presume it was a species of yEshna ; PE. grandis 
frequently roams far from water, but its occurrence in such an unlooked for 
place as Fleet Street, is of course quite unusual. 
Entomological Pins. —As all our readers know, there was a great rise in 
the prices of the cheaper sizes of Entomological pins at the beginning of the 
present year. Four of the five “ sixpenny ” sizes being advanced to 1 -, and 
No. 5 Kirby—No. 14 Tayler—to 1 6. This size was much used by Ento¬ 
mologists for setting out specimens, and the increased price almost prohibits 
their use for this purpose. We have received from Mr. Marsden, of Bath, 
samples of what are called “ Long Kills ” and “ Shanks.” The “ Tills ” are 
a small pin almost equal to No. 9 of Tayler’s, and are very useful for setting, 
and the “ shanks,” which are headless pins of wire about the same size length 
as No. 14, are also excellent for this purpose, as well as for fixing the cards of 
“ carded ” specimens. 
