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Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, vol. ii. part i., 1874–5.—This Society has now been in existence for seven years, and at present numbers 140 members. It endeavours, we believe, faithfully to carry out one of the main objects of local societies, the study of the natural history of its district. This number of its Transactions contains the first section, Dicotyledonous, of a list of the flowering plants of Norfolk, forming the sixth instalment of the fauna and flora of the county, which the Society is publishing. Mr. John Quinton also contributes “Notes on the Meteorological Observations recorded at Norwich during 1874.” A notable and excellent feature in this Society's publications is the miscellaneous notes, in which are briefly recorded new or interesting facts in the natural history of the county. There are several curious papers in this part. Mr. Amyot gives some details concerning a very old oak at Winfarthing Manor.—Mr. J. H. Gurney communicates some extracts from the notebook of the late Miss Anna Gurney of Northreps, in which she recorded noteworthy zoological occurrences in her neighbourhood, between 1820 and 1856.—A reprint of a letter by Sir J. E. Smith, from vol. vii. of the Transactions of the Linnean Society, gives some interesting details concerning several Norwich botanists.—Mr. T. Southwell contributes an analysis of the documents from which the “Indications of Spring,” communicated to the Royal Society by Robert Marsham, F.R.S., in 1789, were compiled.—A list of 139 birds observed on the Kimberley estate, by the Earl of Kimberley.—The wild cattle at Chillingham, by Mr. C. G. Barrett, an interesting account of a visit to those rare animals.
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Scientific Serials . Nature 12, 221–222 (1875). https://doi.org/10.1038/012221a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/012221a0