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Rh lows: iris, white with a faint greyish tinge; feet, pale bluish grey; joints and webs, blackish; bill, bluish grey, lightest near base and before tip; ' nail ' on bill almost black. Width (expanded wings), 75½ cm.; wing in flesh, 22 cm. This specimen is the only one known to have been obtained in Europe. It was in good condition and certainly a genuine wild bird. Careful inquiries made by Mr. N. C. Rothschild have shown that no unpinioned bird of this species was kept in England and that none had escaped (cf. Bulletin Brit. Orn. Club, Nov. 1901.xii. 25).

136. Tufted Duck. Fuligula cristata (Leach).

Not infrequent as a winter visitor to all larger pieces of water, especially the reservoirs, and breeding in some numbers on the Weston Turville (Halton) and Tring reservoirs.

137. Scaup-Duck. Fuligula marila (Linn.).

An occasional but irregular winter visitor to the larger pieces of water, such as the Tring reservoirs, the river Chess, and probably the Thames. We have one shot on the Tring reservoir on December 2, 1892, and have seen it at least twice since then, once in large flocks.

138. Goldeneye. Clangula glaucion (Linn.).

An irregular winter visitor, often appearing in great numbers on the Tring reservoirs in very cold weather. We have seen many adult males among them, but they are very wild and difficult to approach. Specimens have been shot in various places in Buckinghamshire.

139. Common Scoter. Œdemia nigra (Linn.).

A rare winter visitor, but sometimes more numerous than usual. In 1892 (October and December) there were quite a number of females on the Tring reservoirs, and four females of those dates are now in the Tring Museum. On March 22, 1879, an adult male was shot on the Thames near Windsor (Curtis, Field, 1879, p. 369). Joe Cox, jun., shot a young male at Deadmere, Great Marlow, on December 18, 1893 (A. H. Cocks, in litt.).

140. Goosander. Mergus merganser, Linn.

The goosander, ' saw-billed duck,' or ' dun diver ' is a rare winter visitor. A female (called Mergus serrator, but from the figure a goosander) was shot at Dinton Hall on November 26, 1774. Almost every winter specimens are observed or obtained on the Thames, where it separates Buckinghamshire and Berkshire. In the winter, generally in cold weather, single specimens and small parties have from time to time been observed on the Tring reservoirs. Two females were shot on November 8 and 29, 1901. Mr. Alfred Heneage Cocks informs us that one was shot near Great Marlow on January 27, 1881.

141. Red-breasted Merganser. Mergus serrator, Linn.

A much rarer visitor. Mr. Kennedy says only vaguely that individuals are occasionally shot on the Thames. We have not ourselves been able to verify its occurrence on the reservoirs until 1901, when three young males and females were shot on the Marsworth reservoirs, on the Buckinghamshire borders, by Mr. N. C. Rothschild and the keeper. (A year or two before 1883, which was the first year I shot on the reservoirs, the Rev. A. Birch shot a female on Little Tring reservoir, which he had stuffed. W. R.)

142. Smew. Mergus albellus, Linn.

As long ago as 1774 this bird was noticed in Buckinghamshire. In that year a female, called Mergus minutus, red-headed smew, was shot on November 23 at Dinton Hall. On January 12, 1891, a young female was shot in the Brewery sewage works below Great Marlow. The only other instance of its occurrence actually in the county is an adult male shot in January 1876, opposite Stonehouse on the Thames (A. H. Cocks, Zoologist, 1891, p. 153).

143. Ring-Dove or Wood-Pigeon. Columba palumbus, Linn.

Very common, breeding everywhere. In certain years, apparently only when there is plenty of food in the form of beech-mast, it appears in enormous numbers, as for example in the winter of 1894-5.

144. Stock-Dove. Columba ænas, Linn.

This species nests throughout the county where old trees afford nesting-holes. It is however a migrant, leaving us in winter. Kennedy (Birds of Berks and Bucks, p. 55) has apparently confounded the ring-dove and stock-dove, and it is the former (Columba palumbus) which feeds in winter in large flocks on the beech-mast, not the stock-dove, as reported by the Rev. H. Harpur Crewe.

145. Rock-Dove. Columba livia, Gmelin.

' A wild, white-rumped pigeon, slightly smaller than the wood-pigeon, and equally distinct from the stock - dove, is, or was, plentiful at one particular spot in Buckinghamshire, viz. a high chalk cliff, facing the Thames near the lower end of the Danesfield estate, near where Harleyford estate

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Rh ler, and Acroperus harpæ, Baird, both procured in Stoke Park, and belonging to the genera with the head keeled on the top, are distinguished one from the other by the tail of the female. This in the former genus is long and slender and armed with spines on the hinder or upper margin, but in the latter is ' of moderate length and breadth, without spines on the aforesaid margin, and only furnished on the sides with uniform fascicles of very minute spines.' No very large bowl is needed for constructing a miniature pond in which to observe the manners and customs of these creatures. Their modes of motion are very various, and familiarity with these may be utilized for determining the kinds present in an aquarium. Mr. Scourfield says: ' Of all the peculiar modes of existence, that ef deliberately making use of the ceiling of a pond, i.e. the surface-film of water, for support, is probably the most remarkable. So far as is known, only a very few species have acquired the power in a fully developed fashion, and these are all included in two genera, namely Scapholeberis (Cladocera) and Notodromas (Ostracoda).' In regard to S. mucronata he explains that on the perfectly straight and flattened ventral margin of each valve there exists a series of very peculiarly modified setae, the anterior and posterior members of which are larger and project somewhat more than the rest; when the animal, which habitually swims in a reversed position, brings its ventral margin into contact with the surface of the water, the setas which project farthest from the shell pierce the surface-film and produce minute capillary depressions. These depressions, it appears, are large enough to support the difference in weight between the animal's body and the water which it displaces. By careful observation and experiment Mr. Scourfield has also determined that in addition to the morphological distinctions there is also a fundamental difference in the swimming habits of Daphnia and Ceriodaphnia on the one hand, and Simosa and Scapholeberis on the other, for whereas the two former always swim either vertically, or obliquely back uppermost, the two latter always swim more or less obliquely back downwards. Of Chydorus sphæricus Baird observes that its motion through the water is more like rolling, as Jurine describes it, than swimming.

Of the Ostracoda, so abundant everywhere both in species and individuals, there is for the moment only a single Buckinghamshire record, the common Cypris fuscata, Jurine, having been taken in a pond on a common near Burnham Beeches.

Of the Copepoda there are five species included in three genera, a small collection but covering rather a wide space in classification. Diaptomus castor (Jurine) occurred together with the Ostracode just mentioned. It belongs to the extensive family of the Diaptomidas, which is comprised in the division of the Copepoda called by Giesbrecht Gymnoplea. To explain this expression, it must be pointed out that in this order of animals the body is theoretically divisible into eleven segments,

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Rh if the first which constitutes the head be allowed to count as a single segment notwithstanding its evidently composite character. The follow- ing five segments are thoracic, and the terminal five form the pleon, a part so called not with regard to the Copepoda but to other crustaceans in which it is in fact what the word implies, the swimming factor of the organism. In the Copepoda this generally ends in a pair of seti- ferous processes known as the caudal fork or furca, but otherwise it has no appendages, and the expression Gymnoplea means ' those that have a naked pleon,' or in other words a pleon without appendages. Contrasted with these are the Podoplea, or ' those that have feet on the pleon.' But the awkward thing is that these do not really any more than the others have such feet. What they do have is this. The last segment of the thorax, instead of keeping with its own company, has in a manner broken away, and tacked itself on to the group of pleon seg- ments so that it gives the Podoplea not the reality but the look of having a pair of feet (often very rudimentary ones) on the pleon. To this division belong the family Cyclopidas, of which Cyclops fuscus (Jurine) and C. bicuspidatus, Claus, were obtained respectively from Burnham Beeches and a common adjacent thereto, and the family Ar- pacticidae, of which Canthocampus pygmceus, Sars, was obtained from both the last mentioned localities, and C. stapbylinus (Jurine) from Burnham Beeches and Stoke Park. In the Diaptomidas one antenna, either the right or the left, of the first pair is modified into an organ for clasping the female, a geniculation being formed between the eighteenth and nineteenth joints. In the Podoplea either both antennas of the first pair geniculate or neither does. The genera Cyclops and Canthocampus agree in the character of having a pair of clasping antennas. The marks of separation between the two families to which these genera respectively belong are rather too complicated to be conveniently dis- cussed in this chapter. It may however be noted that, while the two species of Cyclops above named both have the first antennas seventeen- jointed, none of the Arpacticidae have more than ten joints in these appendages ; in Canthocampus staphylinus they are eight-jointed.

When allowance is made for the scarcity or absence of any pub- lished information on the subject, the crustacean fauna of this county may now claim not only to have shown excellent promise for future researches, but to have given an earnest of success by already accom- plished discoveries of unusual interest. In adding three species at once to the rather limited number of English terrestrial isopods Bucking- hamshire will not easily be rivalled by other counties.

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Our county depends for its fishes on the Thames which bounds it from the City Stone at Staines up to Remenham just below Henley, on the famous regatta course, and on several tributaries, or rather portions of them. These are the Colne, which divides Buckinghamshire from Hertfordshire for a short distance ; and the Thame, which for a portion of its sinuous course divides our county from Oxfordshire. The Ouse, generally connected with Bedfordshire, flows across the northern side of Buckinghamshire. If we except char ; that curious member of the cod family, the burbot or eel pout ; the migratory salmonidas and one or two species only found in lakes, Buckinghamshire can provide specimens of practically all the freshwater forms found in Great Britain. Time was of course when salmon and sea trout came up our premier river. At the commencement of the last century the Thames was a salmon river, and if the experiments which are being made by the Thames Salmon Associa- tion, led by Mr. W. H. Grenfell, M.P., prove a success and those directing its affairs seem assured that salmon can be made to ascend the river restocking will doubtless be carried out on a large scale, and the fish permanently reintroduced. When we find smelts, a fairly delicate fish, making their way up from the sea through the foul water of the estuary as far as Teddington, it may fairly be surmised that salmon could make the same journey. In all probability the obstructions in the river and pollution have a good deal to do with their absence, while the heavy netting which used to take place probably succeeded in ultimately exterminating the few fish which, pollution notwithstanding, endeavoured to fight their way up to the spawning beds. The opinion has been expressed that to turn the Thames into a salmon river is merely a matter of money, but it is nearly certain that, in consequence of the unsatis- factory spawning beds and the pollution of the water in winter from well manured agricultural land, salmon, which breed best in a wild country, will never become numerous in the river, unless salmon culture is carried out on an enormous scale, as is done by the United States Fish Commission in the case of those rivers where the fish are caught and tinned for the English and other markets.

It is an unfortunate fact that the tendency in a highly civilized and thickly populated country is to destroy rivers so far as their suitability for fish is concerned. That notable little river at High Wycombe, for instance, is more or less ruined as a trout stream by occasional pollutions from paper mills. It is a water which in the by no means remote past

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46 The humblest of all sepulchres, and gazed

With not the less of sorrow and of awe Martin-le-Grand ("a small deserted cemetery in an obscure lane behind [i.e. above] the market"). See note by Charles De la Pryme, Notes and Queries, 1854, Series I. voL x. p. 378). There is a tablet to his memory on the south wall of St. Mary's Church, and the present headstone in the graveyard (it was a "plain headstone" in 1816) bears the following inscription:—

"1764.

Here lie the remains of the celebrated

C..

'Life to the last enjoy'd, here Churchill lies.'"

Churchill had been one of Byron's earlier models, and the following lines from The Candidate, which suggested the epitaph (lines 145-154), were, doubtless, familiar to him:—

Byron spent Sunday, April 25, 1816, at Dover. He was to sail that night for Ostend, and, to while away the time, "turned to Pilgrim" and thought out, perhaps began to write, the lines which were finished three months later at the Campagne Diodati.

"The Grave of Churchill," writes Scott (Quarterly Review, October, 1816), "might have called from Lord Byron a deeper commemoration; for, though they generally differed in character and genius, there was a resemblance between their history and character.... both these poets held themselves above the opinion of the world, and both were followed by the fame and popularity which they seemed to despise. The writings of both exhibit an inborn, though sometimes ill-regulated, generosity of mind, and a spirit of proud independence, frequently pushed to extremes. Both carried their hatred of hypocrisy beyond the verge of prudence, and indulged their vein of satire to the borders of licentiousness."

Save for the affectation of a style which did not belong to him, and which in his heart he despised, Byron's commemoration of Churchill does not lack depth or seriousness. It was the parallel between their lives and temperaments which awoke reflection and sympathy, and prompted this "natural homily." Perhaps, too, the shadow of impending exile had suggested to his imagination that further parallel which Scott deprecated, and deprecated in vain, "death in the flower of his age, and in a foreign land."]


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Rh Cidaria corylata, Thunb. Generally distributed in woods, sitting by day on tree trunks

picata, Hb. Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, Chalfont Road, Black Park, Amersham ; rather local ; a most beautiful species

russata, Schiff., truncata, St.C. Everywhere abundant in hedges and woods

immanata, Haw. Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, Whittlebury Forest, common at Halton

suffumata, Schiff. Halton, Chalfont St. Peter, Chesham ; frequent in lanes and the edges of woods in the spring

silaceata, Schiff. Marlow, Halton, Aylesbury, Chesham, Whittlebury Forest ; larva upon Epilobium angustifolium

prunata, Linn. Buckingham, Drayton Beauchamp, Chesham ; in gardens among currant bushes

dotata, Linn. ; associata, St.C. Buckingham, Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, High Wycombe ; also in gardens among currant

fulvata, Forst. Generally distributed in woods, lanes and gardens, among rose

pyraliata, Bkh., dotata, St.C. Buckingham, Chesham, Leckhampstead ; in hedges and gardens about cleavers (Galium aparine)

populata, Bkh. Recorded from Chesham by Dr. Churchill

testata, Linn. Chesham, Buckingham

Scotosia vetulata, Schiff. Halton, Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter, Drayton Beauchamp, Whittlebury Forest ; among Rhamnus

rhamnata, Schiff. Halton, Buckingham, Taplow, Drayton Beauchamp, Whittlebury Forest ; also among Rhamnus ; readily attracted by light

undulata, Linn. Halton, Buckingham

dubitata, Linn. Generally distributed in gardens, lanes and woods, but usually not plentiful

certata, Hb. Chesham, Black Park ; among Berberis and Mahonia in gardens

Camptogramma bilineata, Linn. Abundant everywhere

Phibalapteryx vitalbata, Schiff. Reared from larvae on Clematis at Chesham by Dr. Churchill, and taken at Wendover by Mr. H. J. Turner

tersata, Schiff. Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter ; about masses of Clematis vitalba in hedges, Wendover

Thera firmata, Hb. Chalfont St. Peter, Marlow, Black Park ; among Scotch fir

variata, Schiff. Chalfont St. Peter, Chesham, Black Park ; common among firs

Hypsipetes ruberata, Frey ; literata, St.C. Chesham, Halton ; pupa under loose bark of poplars and willows, not commonly

impluviata, Schiff. ; trifasciata, St.C. Chesham ; common at Halton ; among alder

elutata, Schiff. ; sordidata, St.C. Everywhere abundant in hedges and woods

Oporabia dilutata, SchifF. Chesham, High Wycombe ; very common at Halton, especially in the larva and pupa states ; probably in most woods ; flying in November

Cheimatobia boreata, Hb. Chesham, on palings ; found by the Rev. Bernard Smith in 1854, rather commonly in beech woods at Great Marlow and Honor Park, sitting on the trunks of the beeches ; its usual food plant, the birch, being almost absent

brumata, Linn. Everywhere abundant in the winter in woods, orchards and hedges ; larvæ most injurious to the apple-crop by feeding in the blossoms

Lobophora sexalata, Hb. ; sexalisata, St.C. Halton, among sallow

viretata, Hb. Marlow, Chesham ; on tree trunks

Chesias spartiata, SchifF. Reared by Dr. Churchill from larvae found on broom at Chesham

Anaitis plagiata, Linn. Halton, Chesham, the Chiltern district ; common on hillsides

Eubolia palumbaria, SchifF. ; plumbaria, St.C. Chesham, common at Halton ; usually found plentifully upon commons and rough heathland

bipunctaria, Schiff. Wendover, Chalfont St. Peter, Chesham, Halton ; usually in chalk districts, resting upon the ground

cervinaria, Schiff. Halton, Chesham ; among mallow

mensuraria, Schiff. ; limitata, St.C.  Abundant everywhere in waysides and rough grass land

Eupithecia togata, Hb. This large and handsome ' pug ' moth was discovered, as British, in Black Park, in June, 1845, by Mr. Desvignes, the eminent hymenopterist, the late Mr. Samuel Stevens and others, of whom but one, Mr. J. W. Douglas, now survives. Some years later the Rev. J. Greene beat out two specimens from a fir in Beech Wood near Halton ; it does not seem to have been seen in the county since, but is found among spruce fir, in the cones

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Rh On that neglected turf and quiet stone,

With name no clearer than the names unknown,

Which lay unread around it; and I asked

The Gardener of that ground, why it might be

That for this plant strangers his memory tasked,

Through the thick deaths of half a century;

And thus he answered—"Well, I do not know

Why frequent travellers turn to pilgrims so;

He died before my day of Sextonship,

And I had not the digging of this grave"

And is this all? I thought,—and do we rip

The veil of Immortality, and crave

I know not what of honour and of light

Through unborn ages, to endure this blight?

So soon, and so successless? As I said,

The Architect of all on which we tread,

For Earth is but a tombstone, did essay

To extricate remembrance from the clay,

Whose minglings might confuse a Newton's thought,

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Rh "No?" said Amy with a sigh; "you see mamma married twice, and all her friends were so displeased at her marrying papa, that they never spoke to her again. They took away her children from her, so that I never saw my brother and sister."

"You have a brother and sister, then," said Allan eagerly. "If they only knew you they would be glad to take care of you now that your poor father is gone. Blood is thicker than water, as we Scotch folk say."

"No," said Amy, "I don't think that they would. Papa wrote to them that mamma was ill, and then afterwards that mamma was dead, and they took no notice of the letter—not the slightest notice. I cannot write to them. I cannot ask anything from them. I would rather stay with you and your father and mother, who speak so kindly to me. Oh! I so often dream of that brother and sister, and try to make them like me and to be sorry about dear mamma, but it always fails—it always fails. Never even in my dreams have they given me a kind word. But don't speak about this to anybody. I tell you now because I cannot help it, and because my heart is full—too full," and the girl leaned on Allan's bench and wept.

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56 death" Gerald Staunton was buried at the end of Hugh Lindsay's garden, and Amy settled herself as an inmate of that plain but hospitable home, and matters improved so much at Branxholm afar her arrival, and Amy became such a favourite with every one, that all the people of the district could never leave off wondering a Mrs. Hammond's extraordinary conduct and extraordinary blunder.

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to account for Mrs. Hammond's conduct in some measure, we must go back in her history some twenty years. Though she was not a very genial or benevolent woman she had many excellent qualities, and would never have thrown the burden of little Amy Staunton on her despised neighbours if she had not had a special reason of her own for disliking and suspecting her.

Although Mrs. Hammond had always held her head very high in Australia, and spoke of society in England as if she had always mixed on equal terms with the very best county people; though she dreaded and opposed the intrusion of parvenus and self-made men into the charmed circle of colonial aristocracy, and was especially exclusive with regard to her children, she had at one period of her life been on her promotion, and

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Rh of which the larva feeds, in Scotland, the New Forest, Hants, and elsewhere

Eupithecia venosata, Fab. Halton, Chesham, Buckingham, Taplow ; among Silene inflate

consignata, Bkh. ; insigniata, St.C. This scarce species has been taken at Chalfont St. Peter by the Rev. J. S. St. John

pulchellata, Steph. Halton ; the larva in the flowers of foxglove

centaureata, Schiff. ; oblongata, St.C. Generally distributed in gardens and lanes

succenturiata, Linn. Halton, Marlow ; among mugwort, not common

subfulvata, Haw. Chalfont St. Peter, Halton, Chesham ; among ragwort and yarrow

subumbrata, Schiff. ; scabiosata, St.C. Only taken at Halton and Wendover

pusillata, Schiff. Halton ; among spruce fir

indigata, Hb. Halton and Chesham ; among fir

constrictata, Gn. The larva was found near Drayton Beauchamp, feeding on flowers of thyme, by the Rev. H. H. Crewe, forty years since

castigata, Haw. Chesham, Chalfont St. Peter ; common at Halton and Amersham

lariciata, Frr. Taken at Chesham among larch by Dr. Churchill

albipunctata, Haw. The larva was found at Drayton Beauchamp and near Tring at the border of this county, on Angelica and Heracleum, by the late Rev. H. H. Crewe. The moth is rarely captured

helveticata, Bdv., and its variety arceuthata, Frr. Beaten out of junipers on rough chalky hillsides near Halton, by the Rev. J. Greene, and towards Tring by the Rev. H. H. Crewe ; and the larvæ taken in plenty from the same bushes. The Rev. J. Greene, who happily still lives, and has assisted in drawing up this paper, says : ' My friend the late Rev. H. H. Crewe, M.A., was then devoting himself to the discovery of the larvæ of this interesting genus (Eupithecia), and with such success that, aided by friends, he discovered and described all the larvæ unknown in Stainton's Manual, and also succeeded in adding not a few to the British fauna. I hope that I may be permitted to say that I never met, nor heard of, such a larva hunter ; he was a first-rate botanist, both as regards wild flowers and cultivated ; had a marvellously quick eye ; and never gave in '

Eupithecia satyrata, Hb. Amersham, Halton The Rev. J. Greene says : ' In the Beech Wood was a small meadow surrounded on three sides by fine beeches ; out of these I beat, in the daytime, this moth in great profusion, but found that they differed from the ordinary form, and this variety was named by Mr. Stainton, callunaria. Mr. Crewe found that it fed as a larva on Gentiana campestris.' It is curious that this variety should so closely coincide with that which is so abundant among heather in Scotland

plumbeolata, Haw. Halton ; larvae found in the flowers of Melampyrum

trisignata, H.S. Drayton Beauchamp and elsewhere towards Tring ; the larva feeding on blossoms of Angelica sylvestris

valerianata, Hb. ; viminata, Dbld. Halton ; larvæ on flowers of Valeriana officinalis

fraxinata. Halton. The Rev. J. Greene found the pupa under moss on ash, on the leaves of which the larva feeds

subnotata, Hb. Chesham ; among Chenopodium

campanulata, H.S. Chesham, Drayton Beauchamp. This is one of the novelties discovered by the Rev. H. H. Crewe, who found its larva feeding in the blossoms of Campanula trachelium

vulgata, Haw. Common everywhere, especially in gardens

absynthiata, Linn. Chalfont St. Peter, common at Halton ; larva on various composite flowers

minutata, Hb. Taken at Chesham by Dr. Churchill

assimillata, Dbld. Drayton Beauchamp, common at Halton and Chesham ; in gardens about currant and hop

tenuiata, Hb. Halton ; reared from sallow catkins

subciliata, Gn. Halton ; among maples

dodonaeata, Gn. Halton ; scarce

abbreviata, Steph. Halton ; among oak

exiguata, Hb. Chesham, Halton, Chalfont St. Peter, Buckingham, Wendover ; among hawthorn

sobrinata, Hb. Halton, the Chilterns ; among juniper

debiliata, Hb. Reared by the Rev. H. H. Crewe from larvæ found near Drayton Beauchamp. Its usual food is whortleberry

coronata, Hb. Chesham, Leckhampstead

rectangulata, Linn. Generally distributed ; too common in orchards, the larva devouring the stamens of the apple-blossom, and destroying the promise of fruit

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58 had begun her career as governess in the family of the wealthy Mr. Derrick, who had made an immense fortune as a cotton manufacturer. She had been educated with great care by a mother who had been left in straitened circumstances, and who had staked her all on that one chance, for she felt sure that if Clarissa Hope once was placed with great people on any footing she was sure to make her way. So Miss Hope had been turned out perfectly competent for a first-class situation according to the requirements of twenty years ago, and had been engaged by Mr. Derrick at a very handsome salary as finishing governess to two young ladies of sixteen and fourteen years of age. Mr. Derrick had bought Stanmore, a fine estate in, ———shire, and was ambitious that his children should take a good place in county society. The only son of the family had been at Oxford and was travelling on the continent when Miss Hope began her educational duties; but before his return she had succeeded in making herself agreeable and almost necessary to the parents and in ingratiating herself also with her pupils; and he had not been long at home before she believed she had made a conquest of John Derrick also. In the last process she lost her own heart more completely than she ever did before or after, for she thought him both

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Rh handsome and agreeable. To a girl who has been educated to teach, whose whole girlish life has been spent in what is to be useful to her in after life in the seclusion of a boarding-school, who has never been initiated in all the light playful talk, half flirtation, half raillery, that breaks the boundary line between jest and earnest, the first attentions of a disengaged and eligible young gentleman are very likely to be successful. Miss Hope could not detect in the son who was to inherit the fortune the tone of underbreeding too apparent in he father who had acquired it. An Oxford course and a continental tour were correctives that in her opinion could not fail to make him a perfect gentleman; and as he had not hitherto been much in ladies' society, Miss Hope's liveliness, Miss Hope's perfect knowledge of her position, Miss Hope's tact in falling into everybody's ways and never offending or displeasing any one, Miss Hope's playing and singing, especially to the harp, Miss Hope's very handsome face and figure and good style of dress, were working wonders. John Derrick thought her a famous girl with plenty of life, or as he called it of go in her, and he flirted with her on every convenient opportunity, but still with discretion, for his father and mother never suspected anything of it.

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52 But bid it flow as now—until it glides

Into the number of the nameless tides.

What is this Death?—a quiet of the heart?

The whole of that of which we are a part?

For Life is but a vision—what I see

Of all which lives alone is Life to me,

And being so—the absent are the dead,

Who haunt us from tranquillity, and spread

A dreary shroud around us, and invest

With sad remembrancers our hours of rest.

The absent are the dead—for they are cold,

And ne'er can be what once we did behold;

And they are changed, and cheerless,—or if yet

The unforgotten do not all forget,

Since thus divided—equal must it be

If the deep barrier be of earth, or sea;

It may be both—but one day end it must

In the dark union of insensate dust.

The under-earth inhabitants—are they

But mingled millions decomposed to clay?

The ashes of a thousand ages spread

Wherever Man has trodden or shall tread?

Or do they in their silent cities dwell

Each in his incommunicative cell?

Or have they their own language? and a sense

Of breathless being?—darkened and intense

As Midnight in her solitude?—Oh Earth!

Where are the past?—and wherefore had they birth?

The dead are thy inheritors—and we

But bubbles on thy surface; and the key

Of thy profundity is in the Grave,

The ebon portal of thy peopled cave,

Where I would walk in spirit, and behold

Our elements resolved to things untold,


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60 But on one unlucky holiday time Miss Hope reluctanly left her delightful situation to spend six weeks with her mother; for in spite of all John Derrick's hints and planning, and Miss Hope's declaration that she did not care for holidays, Mrs. Derrick would not invite her to go to the sea-side with the family. She had the satisfaction of seeing that her admirer was quite as much disappointed as she was herself, and the few parting words he said she felt amounted almost to a declaration of attachment; so she bore the separation as she best could, and charmed her mother and her mother's circle with her accounts of the thorough appreciation she had met with from the whole family at Stanmore.

Unfortunately for Miss Hope's expectations, the Derricks became acquainted at the fashionable watering-place to which they had gone with a family as much superior to them in birth and position as they were beneath them in fortune.

The Earl of Darlington was a poor peer originally, But his extravagant habits had lessened, as far as entails would allow of it, the family property which he had inherited from his father.

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Rh Eupithecia pumilata, Hb. Halton; larvæ plentiful in various flowers

Odezia chasrophyllata, Linn.; atrata, St.C. (Chimney-sweep). Buckingham, local; among Bunium flexuosum (pignut)

Pyralis fimbrialis, SchifF.; costalis, Fab. Marlow glaucinalis, Linn. Marlow lienigialis, Zell. Stony Stratford; this is the only place in the United Kingdom in which this rare species seems to have been observed; several specimens were taken here at ' light' in the year 1880 by Mr. W. Thompson and Mr. Bryan; strange to say, since that date no further examples seem to have been found either here or in any other part of the British Islands

Pyrausta punicealis, SchifF.; aurata, St.C. Halton; among marjoram

purpuralis, Linn. Marlow, Halton, Wendover

ostrinalis, Hb. Halton, Wendover

Ennychia anguinalis, Hb.; nigrata, St.C. Wendover

octomaculalis, Fab. Marlow, Halton; among golden rod

Herbula cespitalis, Schiff. Wendover

Endotricha flammealis, Schiff. Black Park

Botys pandalis, Hb. Marlow; among golden rod

hyalinalis, Hb. Marlow, Chalfont Road

verticalis, Schiff.; ruralis, St.C. Generally common about nettle beds

forficalis, Hb. Abundant in gardens

urticalis, Schiff. Generally abundant

Spilodes cinctalis, Tr.; verticalis, St.C. Marlow, Taplow; in clover fields

Scopula olivalis, SchifF. Generally common in hedges

prunalis, Schiff. Common in lanes

lutealis. Common near Buckingham town osier beds, 1897 (A. T. Goodson)

Scoparia cembrae, Haw. Wolverton; common

dubitalis, Hb.; pyralella, Stn. Amersham, abundant

Amblyptilia acanthodactylus, Hb. Chalfont Road

Oxyptilus teucrii, Greening. Black Park

Aciptilia galactodactylus, Hb. Amersham; larvæ found by Mr. H. J. Turner

Dioryctria abietella, Zk. Black Park; among fir

Cryptoblabes bistriga, Hw. Black Park

Ephestia ktihniella, Zell. This destructive species, which had made its way into Europe, no one knows whence, ten years before, appeared here in 1887, and the first place in which it was found was a flour mill at Stony Stratford; here it was discovered by the late Mr. Wm. Thomas in plenty, the larva; feeding upon ' rice-cones ' and flour. In a very few years it had become most abundant in London, and now there seems hardly to be a flour store or mill in the kingdom from which it is entirely absent. It maintains itself by spinning together and feeding upon the flour which has settled in dust upon beams, joists, window ledges and corners. It has made itself equally objectionable in the United States of America where it is called the Mediterranean flour moth as well as on the continent of Europe generally

Aphomia sociella, Linn. Black Park; probably generally distributed, the larva infesting the nests of wasps

Crambus pratellus, Clk. Abundant in fields

hortuellus, Hb. Everywhere common

Tortrix cinnamomeana, Tr. Black Park

corylana, Fab. Chesham

Eulia ministrana, Linn. Amersham

Peronea sponsana, Fab. Chesham

Penthina pruniana, Hb. Amersham; plentiful

ochroleucana, Hb. Chalfont Road; among rose

cynosbana, Linn. Generally common

Ptycholoma lecheana, Linn. Amersham

Argyrotoza conwayana, Fab. Amersham; among ash

Spilonota suffusana, Koll. Amersham; about hawthorn

Pardia tripunctana, Schiff. Amersham; among rose

Sericoris lacunana, SchifF. Generally abundant

Orthotsenia striana, SchifF. Chalfont Road

Sciaphila subjectana, Steph. Generally abundant

hybridana, Hb. Amersham; in hedges

Capua ochraceana, St. Chalfont Road

Phoxopteryx lundana, Fab. Amersham, Chalfont Road; among clover

comptana, Fröl. Wendover; abundant

upupana, Tr. Black Park

Grapholitha nisana, Cl. Chesham

penkleriana, Fisch. Chalfont Road;

Hypermecia cruciana, Linn. Black Park

Pasdisca profundana, Fab. "

Halonota brunnichiana, SchifF. Amersham; about coltsfoot

Retinia buoliana, Schiff. Black Park; among fir

Coccyx strobilana, Linn. Chalfont Road; among spruce

splendidulana, Gn. Chalfont Road, Amersham

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Rh heaped on it for the Earl's own expenses, it was likely that his only daughter Lady Eveline would be left penniless at his death. The Earl had married rather late in life, and prudently so far, for he had married an heiress, but as he had imprudently managed that her money should be completely at his own disposal, he had spent it, and was quite capable of spending another fortune like it; for though not young, he had as extravagant tastes and habits as ever. Lady Darlington chafed and fretted and reproached her husband when the money was gone, and bewailed the injustice that had robbed her daughter. On these occasions the Earl used to say—

"No fear of Eveline. She'll marry Herbert and be countess when you are dowager. Have I not kept friends with my heir for the very purpose? And he's a careful follow; he'll nurse the property a bit. I see he can't bear a stick of timber to be cut down; he is just a little too ready with his advice, and if it were not for Eveline I'd fire up. You suppose I have no command of my temper, Lady Darlington, but the curb I put on it in that fellow's presence for Eveline's sake is a tight one, and you reproach me with not caring about my daughter."

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62 Darlington. Eveline is a child yet, and though a pretty one, people do not care about beauty now-a-days. And Herbert Darlington's means are very small just now."

"Small or great, he will be able to live within his means, which is what I never could do," said the Earl laughing, "so he is a richer man than me now, and he has a rich uncle besides. Oh! I should feel quite easy if Eveline was married to him; and depend upon it, when Lady Gower brings her out, that she will be the rage. She has the Darlington countenance, and the family has been noted for beauty for three centuries."

But before Lady Eveline's countenance had come to its full beauty, in fact when she was not sixteen, Mr. Herbert Darlington and his expectations were transferred elsewhere.

He married a Miss Pernnithorne, the only child of a wealthy city-man, and reputed the richest heiress of her time. Lord Darlington was furious in his rage, but he could not have the satisfaction of cutting off his heir with a shilling. He could only cut him in society, and cut down a very little more timber, and Lady Eveline's penniless condition became as great a grief to him as to his lady. The only thing that could be done under the circumstances was, to take a leaf out of Herbert's book, and ally his

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Rh Carpocapsa splendana, Hb. Black Park ; among oak

nimbana, H.S. Found at Little Kemble by Lord Walsingham in 1869, then new to Britain. He discovered larvæ; and pupæa: under moss on the bark of beeches ; it still remains very rare

Stigmonota pallifrontana, Zell. Stony Stratford ; first found here about 1869 by the late Mr. W. Thompson, and more recently by Mr. William Warren, who also found its larva on Astragalus glyciphyllos ; hardly known elsewhere in the British Isles

composana, Fab. Amersham ; in clover fields

germarana, Hb. ; puncticostana, Stn. Black Park

Trycheris mediana, Fab. ; aurana, St.C. Linford Wood

Dichrorampha petiverana, Linn. Generally common

plumbagana, Tr. Amersham ; among yarrow

plumbana, Scop. Amersham ; common in meadows

Chrosis audouinana, Dup. ; bifasciana, St.C. Black Park ; rare

Xanthosetia hamana, Linn. Amersham

Choreutis scintillulana, Hb. Black Park ; among Scutellaria

Simsthis fabriciana, Linn. Everywhere abundant

Epigraphia avellanella, Hb. Black Park ; on tree trunks

Scardia cloacella, Haw. Amersham ; in lanes

arcella, Fab. Chalfont Road

Tinea semifulvella, Haw. Black Park Lampronia quadripuncta, Fab. Amersham ; among rose

Eriocephala seppella, Fab. Amersham ; in speedwell flowers on hedge banks

thunbergella, Fab. Black Park

Micropteryx sangii, Stn. Mortimer ; taken by Canon Cruttwell

Adela sulzella, Schiff. Wendover ; rather common

degeerella, Linn. Amersham ; in woods

viridella, Linn. Amersham ; among oak

Anesychia bipunctella, Fab. One of the two localities given for this very rare species by Mr. Stainton is Aylesbury, many years back.'

Eidophasia messingiella, Fisch. Wolverton, in a small swamp

Harpipteryx nemorella, Linn. Black Park ; among honeysuckle

Henicostoma lobelia, Schiff. Amersham

Depressaria hypericella, Hb. Larvæ found on Hypericum at Amersham by Mr. H. J. Turner

Gelechia terrella, Schiff. Abundant everywhere

scriptella, Hb. Amersham ; among maple

lyellella, Curt. Black Park ; on tree trunks

anthyllidella, Hb. Amersham ; among clover

Harpella geoffrella, Linn. Abundant in lanes at Amersham

Dasycera sulphurella, Fab. Generally common

oliviella, Fab. Black Park

CEcophora tripuncta, Haw. Amersham ; in hedges

flavifrontella, Hb. Black Park

Glyphipteryx fuscoviridella, Haw. Amersham ; abundant in fields

thrasonella, Scop. Generally common among rushes

Coleophora anatipennella, Hb. Black Park ; among blackthorn

inflatae, Stn. Loudwater

Stathmopoda pedella, Linn. Black Park ; among alder, excessively local

Lyonetia padifoliella, Hb. Stony Stratford the only British locality given by Mr. Stainton

Nepticula prunetorum, Stn. Loudwater here discovered by Mr. Boyd

Apart from the Lepidoptera and Coleoptera, the insects of Bucking- hamshire seem to have been almost entirely neglected. While however I was compiling the list of the Coleoptera I received a few notices of Hemiptera from Mr. E. C. Elliman, Mr. Philip Harwood and Mr. H. Turner, and also some undetermined species which I have named and added to the list. It is perhaps hardly worth publishing, but it contains a few interesting species, and serves to show what will probably be obtained by any one who hereafter may work the county for this order.

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Rh daughter to wealth, if not to birth; so that when the gout drove Lord Darlington to Brighton, and he found himself placed in the next house to Mr. Anthony Derrick the cotton lord, he determined to cultivate the acquaintance, very much to the satisfaction of Lady Darlington and to the delight of the whole family of Derricks.

Lady Eveline was just sixteen when she met with John Derrick, and though she was in a very different style from Miss Hope, there was no doubt she was a very pretty and elegant girl. The Countess was very courteous to him; the Earl, though of a hasty, irritable temper, was always glad to see him, and the young man was flattered by this introduction into aristocratic society. His father and mother were full of the praises of the Lady Eveline, and his sisters struck up a violent friendship for her. Charlotte and Anne Derrick used to accompany Lady Eveline, with their brother's escort, for walks and rides on the beach, and John was delighted to show his acquaintance that he had a lady of title under his care. He brought forward his stock of small talk, which had been so irresistible to Miss Hope, and Lady Eveline did not seem to dislike it. She had never been in society, or been much with people of her own age. She had missed Herbert Darlington's frequent visits, for they

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64 were the only things that had brought any change to her life at home, for her father was very irritable and her mother querulous, and both of them were a great deal older than herself. Her pleasures had been in reading and music, and her education had been but imperfect, at least so far as judgment and principles were concerned. She was a great novel-reader and built many castles in the air of a very romantic kind. She had intense pleasure in out-of-door life, which in the beautiful country about Darlington Castle was always attractive; and as all her pursuits and amusements had been solitary, she enjoyed the change to the bustle and life of a crowded watering-place, and felt the society of companions of her own age pleasant. Still she looked down on her friends too. She had heard the indignation with which her father and mother had spoken of Herbert's mesalliance with Miss Pennithorne, and wondered at their civility to this Manchester family.

After about a month's acquaintance, a convenient opportunity having presented itself, Mr. John Derrick made a formal proposal to the young lady. Lady Eveline was taken by surprise; she had never dreamt of such a thing as that this plebeian young man would fall in love with her; her heart was indifferent and

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Rh more than indifferent to John Derrick, but she disliked to give pain, and so she listened. It was not at all unpleasant to listen; she had always liked the love passages in her favourite novels and romances better than any other passages in the books, and had often wondered if that was the way in which declarations were made in real life. So she listened much longer than she ought to have done, not as if it were her own concern, but wondering what other people would think of it if they only knew; how amused her mamma would be, and how indignant her papa at the young man's presumption. She was not old enough or thoughtful enough to feel the pain which a fruitless declaration ought to give to a woman. Her lover interpreted her silence as encouragement; he took her hand and was raising it to his lips when Eveline started, and woke to the consciousness that this was really her own affair, and that Mr. John Derrick was entitled to an answer.

"Oh, no!" said she, "I cannot allow of such a thing. What would papa say?"

"But I have your permission, Lady Eveline, to speak to the Earl on this subject?" said John Derrick.

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Rh And fathom hidden wonders, and explore

The essence of great bosoms now no more.

Diodati, July, 1816. [First published, Letters and Journals, 1830, ii. 36.]

SONNET TO LAKE LEMAN.

—Voltaire—our Gibbon—and De Staël—

Leman! these names are worthy of thy shore,

Thy shore of names like these! wert thou no more,

Their memory thy remembrance would recall:

To them thy banks were lovely as to all,

But they have made them lovelier, for the lore

Of mighty minds doth hallow in the core

Of human hearts the ruin of a wall

Where dwelt the wise and wondrous; but by thee

How much more, Lake of Beauty! do we feel,

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Podops inuncta, Fab. Wendover, Burnham Sehirus bicolor, L. Wendover Tropicoris rufipes, L. Zicrona coerulea, L. Wendover. Somewhat common on junipers Acanthosoma hasmorrhoidale, L. interstinctum, L. (griseum, auct. nee Linn.) tristriatum, L.

Verlusia rhombea, L. Burnham Coreus denticulatus, Scop. Stenocephalus agilis, Scop. Corizus parumpunctatus, Schill. Burnham, Chesham Neides tipularius, L. Burnham Berytus minor, H. Schff. montivagus, Fieb. Metatropis rufescens, H. Schff. Cymus claviculus, Fall. Burnham Ischnorhynchus resedæ, Panz. Burnham Rhyparochromus dilatatus, H. Schff. chiragra, Fab. Tropistethus holosericeus, Schltz. Ischnocoris angustulus, Boh. Burnham. Both macropterous and micropterous forms Plinthisus brevipennis, Latr. Acompus rufipes, Wolff. (continued) Stygnus pedestris, Fall. arenarius, Hahn. Peritrechus luniger, Schill. Burnham Aphanus lynceus, Fab. Scolopostethus affinis, Schill. (adjunctus, D. & S.) Notochilus contractus, H. Schff. Drymus sylvaticus, Fab. brunneus, Sahib. Gastrodes ferrugineus, L. Orthostira parvula, Fall. Derephysia foliacea, Fall. Monanthia cardui, L. dumetorum, H. Schff. Burnham simplex, H. Schff. " Aneurus lasvis, Fab. "

Velia currens, Fab. Gerris najas, DeG.

Piezostethus cursitans, Fall. Burnham Triphleps niger, Wolff.

Miris calcaratus, Fall. Pantilius tunicatus, Fab. Cbesham Lygus pastinaceae, Fall. kalmii, L. Cyrtorrhinus caricis, Fall. Burnham Psallus variabilis, Fall.

Scarcely any collections of members of this order have been made so far as the county of Buckinghamshire is concerned. The few species recorded, twenty-six in all, were collected by Messrs. Webb and F. P. Smith, except three which were recorded by the Rev. O. Pickard- Cambridge.

Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows. The tracheal openings lie immediately in front of the spinners. The tarsal claws are two in number, but the anterior pair of spinners are set wide apart at their base, and the maxillae are more or less impressed across the middle.

1. Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer) Colmbrook (Webb)

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66 implied;—she only saw that it would save her from saying anything painful to his feelings, and she felt very certain that her papa would be decided in his answer.

"Oh! yes; I suppose you may speak to him," said she.

"And if I win his consent I may hope for yours?" said the young man eagerly.

"You have not got his consent yet," said she, half seriously, half archly, and she ran out of the room, leaving him in the seventh heaven at the favourable reception she had given to his addresses, while she herself was flattered, amused, and excited, but never dreaming of the possibility of marrying him.

John told his father the result of his interview; indeed he had not made his proposal until Mr. Derrick had both sanctioned and urged it, and the old gentleman went with the lover to the Earl with offers of most liberal settlements, to strengthen his claims to so distinguished an alliance.

They found the Earl in very good humour and by no means unprepared for the overtures they made. Lady Darlington was called into council, and she too looked with favour on a marriage that would secure her poor girl from the poverty she had dreaded for her. She was too young at present, far too young; but if Mr. John Derrick

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Rh would wait for two or three years they would make no objection. This was acceded to; the old gentleman said they were both young enough, and he thought it would be well for them to wait.

When Lady Eveline was summoned into her father's study, or the room which went by that name in the Brighton establishment, she was astonished and confounded to discover that everyone took it for granted that she had promised to marry Mr. John Derrick, provided he obtained the Earl's consent. Her mother clasped her to her hear, wept over her, and said she knew she should be happy; her father declared that he had no wish but to please her, and that if she had set her heart on this young fellow, he would make no objection on the score of birth or position. Young people would be young people and take fancies to each other to the end of time, and he, the Earl, did not see any good in thwarting them. He had though she would wait till she had been presented before she made conquests, but after all there was no time like the present. Then old Mr. Derrick gravely said that he was most happy that everything had been so pleasantly and amicably arranged, and declared his intention of welcoming Lady Eveline into his family ere long.

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Rh pair of spinners are set close together at the base, and the maxillae are convex, and not impressed in the middle. 2. Micaria pulicaria (Sundevall) Colnbrook (Webb) 3. Clubiona pallldula (Clerck) Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.) 4. Clubiona corticalis (Walckenaer) Colmbrook (Webb) 5. Zora maculata (Blackwall) Burnham Beeches (Webb) 6. Micrommata vtrescens (Clerck) (O.P.C.)

Spiders with eight eyes, situated in two transverse rows, two tarsal claws and anterior spinners close together at their base. Maxillae not impressed. The crab-like shape and side- long movements of these spiders are their chief characteristics, enabling them to be easily distinguished from the more elongate Drassidæ and Clublonidæ.

7. Philodromus dispar, Walckenaer Colmbrook (Webb)

The spiders of this family may be recognized in a general way by their mode of progression, consisting of a series of leaps. More particularly they may be known by the square shape of the cephalic region and the fact that the eyes are arranged in three rows of 4, 2, 2, the centrals of the anterior row being much the largest. Otherwise the spiders are simply specialized Clubionids with two tarsal claws and other minor characters possessed in common with other members of this family.

8. Marpissa muscosa (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb)

Spiders with eight eyes in three rows, and three tarsal claws. The first row of eyes consists of four small eyes which are sometimes in a straight line, sometimes recurved and sometimes procurved. Those of the other two rows are situated in a rectangle of various proportions. Pisaura runs freely over the herbage, carrying its egg-sac beneath the body.

9. Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) ; Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.)

Very common ; adult in June and July. Known also as Dolomedes or Ocyale mirabilis.

The members of this family have also eight eyes, similarly situated to those of the Pisauridæ, the tarsal claws also being three in number. The spiders are to be found running freely and carrying their egg-sac attached to the spinners. Many of the larger species make a short burrow in the soil and there keep guard over the egg-sac. 10. Lycosa ruricola (De Geer) Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.) 11. Lycosa pulverulenta (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) 12. Pardosa pullata (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) 13. Pardosa lugubris (Walckenaer) Burnham Beeches (Webb) 14. Pirata hygrophilus, Thorell (O.P.C.)

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68 "But I am so young," said Eveline, shrinking back from all this congratulation, and feeling, that, through everything that was said by others, John Derrick's eye was fixed on her with an expression of confident success that embarrassed and mortified her. "I am so very young," she repeated.

"So we all say," said the Earl, "but if you are both of the same mind two years hence you will not be too young then."

"But—but—but" said Eveline and then words failed her. Perhaps John Derrick would change his mind in two years' time. It was a distant prospect; a good deal might happen in two years.

"A two years' engagement is not an unreasonably long one," said Mr. Derrick, "so you must wait with patience, my boy."

"But mamma," said Eveline, "don't let it be spoken about."

"Oh, no!" said Lady Darlington, "I think that as you are so young, and as your education is not completed, it would be well that no one knew that you are engaged, particularly if you do not like it mentioned."

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Rh walls of outhouses, wherever the various species may happen to be found. The posterior pair of spinners is usually much longer than the other two pairs. 15. Agelena labyrinthlca (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) 16. Tegenaria derbami (Scopoli) Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.) 17. Tegenaria atrica, C. L. Koch Burnham Beeches (Webb)

The spiders included in this family have eight eyes, situated in two rows, the lateral eyes of both rows being usually adjacent, if not in actual contact, while the central eyes form a quadrangle. The tarsal claws are three, often with other supernumerary claws. The web is either an orbicular (wheel-like) snare, or consists of a sheet of webbing beneath which the spiders hang and capture the prey as it falls upon the sheet.

18. Araneus umbraticus, Clerck Colmbrook (Webb) ; Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.) 19. Araneus diadematus, Clerck Chipping Wycombe (F. P. S.) 20. Araneus marmoreus, Clerck (O. P. C.) 21. Linyphia triangularis (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) 22. Linyphis  montana (Clerck) Colmbrook (Webb) 23. Linyphia hortensis, Sundevall Colmbrook (Webb)

The members of this family have eight eyes situated very much like those of the Argiopidæ, but the mandibles are usually weak, the maxillae are inclined over the labium, and the posterior legs have a comb of stiff curved spines beneath the tarsi. The web consists of a tangle of crossing lines, and the spider often constructs a tent-like retreat wherein the egg- sac is hung up.

24. Theridion ovatum (Clerck)

The species possess the calamistrum and cribellum and three tarsal claws, but the eyes, eight in number, are situated in two transverse rows, the laterals being in contact. They construct a tubular retreat with an outer sheet of webbing, which is covered with flocculent silk made with the calamistrum with threads from the cribellum.

25. Amaurobius similis (Blackwall) Burnham Beeches (Webb) Known also under Ciniflo.

26. Amaurobius fenestralis (Strœm) Colmbrook (Webb) Known also as Ciniflo atrox.

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Rh get her out of her dilemma without giving her any trouble about it. But she would get out of it somehow. It was a good thing that everybody agreed that it should not be mentioned, not even to Anne or Charlotte—Mr. Derrick promised her that—and then she could talk quietly about it to her mother. She would explain that the marriage was out of the question.

"As to visiting and correspondence," said Lady Darlington, "if the affair is to be kept quiet, it would not be advisable to permit very much of either, but still in moderation we can allow of it. Eveline will pay her promised visit to her aunt, Lady Gower, at Christmas."

"Oh! I had hoped she might have come to Stanmore then," said Mr. Derrick.

"No, that cannot be. It was an old promise that she should go to her aunt's when she was seventeen, for Lady Gower cannot be troubled with chits of children, and Eveline has looked forward to it for years. If you mean to keep this affair unknown, it would be very foolish to have much correspondence or intercourse when she is at Gower's Court," said the Earl.

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Though there are mud fishes and climbing fishes and fishes that migrate from pond to pond, it still remains true that a fish out of water is in an anomalous position. With crustaceans the case is different. Like fishes they are essentially an aquatic tribe, but they have been more venturesome, more adaptive than their scaly companions. In various ways they have contrived to suit themselves to terrestrial life, so that to many species the immediate neighbourhood of water is unnecessary. None the less in all our counties, inland as well as maritime, the aquatic species and specimens are sure greatly to outnumber those that live in the open air. In fact, just as we speak of many men, many minds, we can with equal assurance speak of many waters, many crustaceans. Such local names as the manor of Water Eaton, the market town of Fenny Stratford, the hamlet of Waterside, sufficiently testify that Buckingham- shire can provide the carcinologist with happy hunting grounds. Until of late it is the hunters that seem to have been wanting. At any rate, if there have been any, the records of their researches have either not been published, or have been given to the world sporadically and in a manner no longer easy to trace. The species now to be reported depend not on the evidence of books or scientific transactions, but on inquiries specially made for the purpose of the present volume, and on investi- gations of which the results have been in the friendliest manner placed at my disposal.

That the river crayfish, Potamobius pallipes (Lereboullet), is plenti- ful in this county no one could reasonably doubt, having regard to the known facts of its distribution in neighbouring districts. A definite record of its occurrence however has come to hand in a rather amusingly circuitous way. The well-known statistician, Dr. W. Ogle, upon hear- ing of my wish for particular information, advised me to apply to his niece, Miss Johnson of Cutlers' Farm, Lane End, near High Wycombe. This lady very obligingly at once pursued the inquiry in a highly practical manner by laying it before her colleagues on a board of guardians. One of the membersfrom Hovenden, a tiny village at the foot of the hills close to Princes Risboroughimmediately replied that there were plenty of crayfish in the stream there. Since there is good reason to believe that we have only one species of this genus in England, its existence in the locality may well be accepted on the dis- interested testimony even of an anonymous poor law guardian, without any critical questioning of his zoological capacity. Of the stalk-eyed

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Rh Malacostraca this is the only representative likely to be found living, in a wild or natural state, in the county. In all epochs of human history this and its kindred species have probably been consumed in large quantities for food. In the present epoch they are consumed in large quantities for education. Their fitness for this purpose should not be disregarded. Everything nowadays has to submit to analysis or dissec- tion or both, water and milk, stars and ether, history and law, plants and animals. Among the latter enthusiastic students make their choice, some taking delight in the viscera of a kitten or the brains of a baboon, others preferring the minute anatomy of a slow-worm or a slug. Very likely all these subjects, according to taste or whatever the appreciative sense may be, are delectable handling and alluring to look at. But for unsophisticated persons, not yet prejudiced in favour of a snail or a cuttle or a sea-sausage, one can honestly commend the class of Crustacea as a basis and beginning of anatomical practice. Within that class the river crayfish supplies the very model of a handy specimen, not clumsy like a lobster, not inconveniently small like a shrimp, and withal so de- cent and decorous, internally and externally so free from anything to cause disgust, that the student may with satisfaction begin his study by eating a large part of his lesson book. For even when the meat or muscular part has been consumed the external skeleton remains, not un- instructive. All through the wonderfully diversified orders and sub- orders of the Malacostraca the fundamental character of that skeleton is found persistent. In some great sections of the group the species have their eyes set on movable stalks. In other great sections they have them seated immovably in the head. But interlacing characters make it difficult to draw a sharp line between these two assemblages. Apart from the eyes there are normally nineteen pairs of appendages in all the Malacostraca, each pair having theoretically a segment of the body to which it is attached, while the body ends in a segment which has no dis- tinct appendages. The eyes are followed by two pairs of antennas or feelers, a pair of mandibles usually stout or sharp for biting or piercing, two pairs of maxillae thin and flat, and then a pair of jaws called maxilli- peds because they are sometimes foot-like. After these come either two more pairs of maxillipeds and five pairs of legs, or else a complete series of legs in seven pairs. But the so-called legs are seldom all of them fitted for walking. The terminal portion of the animal known as the tail, the abdomen, the pleon or swimming part, carries six pairs of ap- pendages, some of them called pleopods or swimming feet and some uropods or tail-feet, but under whatever names they pass subject to much diversity in form and function. From the Decapoda or ten-footed divi- sion Huxley selected ' the crayfish ' as the subject of a lucid and concise zoological treatise. His explanations however are not limited to a page or a paragraph, but expanded into a volume, and in its chapters those who live where crayfishes live will amply learn what excellent opportunities for mental improvement that companionship affords them.

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70 aristocratic society, and to be kept in he background while Lady Eveline was enjoying herself in the gay and fashionable world was losing the best half of the triumph of his success. Eveline was pleased with the provision that her parents made. She did not want to see much of John Derrick, even if it ever came to anything, and as for correspondence, she wondered what in all the world they could find to say to each other. She caught a glance at his face timidly enough; he looked annoyed; she was sure he had not a good temper. He had not the courage to appeal against the hardship of restricted opportunities of lovemaking, but yet he did not like it.

On the whole both father and son were quite satisfied with the result of the interview, and when they were gone Eveline tried to explain to her mother that all this had been taken for granted, and that she had no idea of accepting John Derrick's proposal when she allowed him to speak to her father; but before she began her mother clasped her in her arms and wept over her again, and said she could bear to give her up for her own good and her own happiness, as this undoubtedly was. She had always known she must give her up, but this had come upon her rather soon.

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Rh indebted to the researches of Wilfred Mark Webb, Esq., F.L.S., F.Z.S., and to those of Miss Johnson and her sister. Some of the species, it is true, are so uniformly distributed over the whole neighbourhood that their existence in this county could not have been reasonably disputed. But the examples which my very obliging friends have sent from definite localities dispense with any necessity of depending on speculative inference, and, as will be presently seen, the results are not confined to those customary forms the occurrence of which could have been predicted. Here, as in all other counties, the Amphipoda are represented by Gammarus pulex (Linn.). It has the advantage of being everywhere obtainable from ponds and brooks. But it is of small size, so that for the proper understanding of its separate details some optical enlargement is almost essential. Otherwise it is a convenient object of study for the beginner, not only by reason of its great abundance, but also because in many respects it seems to offer a standard of comparison, a simple pattern from which the very numerous genera and species of Amphipoda diverge and radiate. Its insignificant size might readily put an observer off the thought of comparing it with a crayfish, but the organization is essentially the same. Here however the shield or carapace, instead of being produced backward as far as the pleon, stops short over the first maxillipeds. Hence there is left uncovered the middle body, consisting of seven segments, which as a rule are all articulated. To each of these is attached a pair of appendages. The first two pairs, which are generally used for grasping, have been called gnathopods, and these are homologous with the second and third maxillipeds of the crayfish. Maxillipeds and gnathopods alike mean jaw-feet, the words being intended to teach that the appendages in question are foot-like in form or in origin, but concerned with the food in point of function. All but the first of the seven pairs of legs may carry branchial vesicles, comparable with the more complicated gills which are hidden beneath the cheeks of the carapace in the higher crustaceans.

Along with G. pulex at Eton and at Iver Mr. Webb has taken the isopod Asellus aquaticus (Linn.). The two species are almost constant companions and perhaps equally abundant, but at some times and some places one or the other may be found to predominate in numbers. The Isopoda can scarcely be considered so united a group as the Amphipoda, and if any genus could be selected as a central representative it would scarcely be Asellus. Nevertheless, as the only aquatic isopod of our inland counties the species of it above mentioned deserves attention. It is as curious as it is common. Like other genuine isopods it agrees with the amphipods in having sessile eyes and seven uncovered articulated segments of the middle body, and differs from them in having its breathing organs in the pleon instead of attached to gnathopods and walking legs. But an extreme ventral flattening gives it a highly peculiar appearance. By this shape it is enabled to adhere very closely to the leaves and stems of the water weeds about which it climbs. Those who are at the pains to compare its appendages pair by pair with those of

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54 The wild glow of that not ungentle zeal,

Which of the Heirs of Immortality

Is proud, and makes the breath of Glory real! Diodati, July, 1816. [First published, Prisoner of Chillon, etc., 1816.]

STANZAS TO AUGUSTA.

I. the day of my Destiny's over,

And the star of my Fate hath declined,

Thy soft heart refused to discover

The faults which so many could find;

Though thy Soul with my grief was acquainted,

It shrunk not to share it with me,

And the Love which my Spurit hath painted

It never hath found but in Thee.

II.

Then when Nature around me is smiling,

The last smile which answers to mine,

I do not believe it beguiling,

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Rh understand it at all. After all you and papa said about poor Herbert's marriage to the grand-daughter of a—cobbler—how could you think of my marrying Mr. John Derrick, whose grandfather was—"

"Never mind his grandfather, my dear; it is not his grandfather, or father either, that you are to marry. I had not much of a grandfather, but yet Lord Darlington was only too glad to marry me, and, to tell the truth, if you do not make a good marriage I do not know what is to become of us, for he has made away with all I that. The reason why we were so displeased at Herbert's marriage was that there was a sort of understanding that he was to marry you when you were old enough."

"Oh! that would have been very different," said Lady Eveline.

"Indeed, on the whole I think this is much better for you, because Herbert was poor, at least during his uncle's life-time, and now I hear that old Mr. Herbert has left him his whole fortune, he was so pleased with his prudent marriage. But this Mr. Derrick should have half-a-million, if report speaks true of his father's wealth, and the old gentleman seems as desirous of the alliance with our family as his son is, so that everything will be easy——"

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Rh Gammarus pulex will possibly be surprised to find in animals superficially so unlike a long series of structural resemblances. These however cease to be conspicuous in the pleon. The seven large articulated segments which this part of the animal's body displays alike in the crayfish and the amphipod are in Asellus all consolidated into a comparatively small shield. Beneath this are five pairs of appendages in the male, but only four in the female. The sixth pair, the uropods, project from the caudal shield on either side of its central apex, and since their attachment be- longs to the sixth segment of the pleon the apex may be regarded as the telson or proper terminal segment of the body.

The terrestrial Isopoda of the county, commonly called wood-lice, are distributed over three families of the Oniscidea. In these the pleon is divided into six segments, of which the first two are always narrower than those of the middle body and usually than those of the pleon itself which immediately follow. On the other hand the sixth segment, though presumably carrying with it the telson in coalescence, is the smallest of all, and like the first two takes no part in forming the outer rim of the body at the sides, though its special point or border com- pletes the circuit at one end.

In the family Trichoniscidas the county has been fortunate. A gathering of five small specimens obtained by Mr. Webb at Eton Wick has proved to contain representatives of three genera, two of the species being new to the English fauna. The third species may be mentioned first, this being the well-known and widely-distributed Trichoniscus pusillus, Brandt, described by Bate and Westwood under the name Philougria riparia (Koch). Like members of its family in general, it has the pleon attenuated and the inner branch of the uropods as well as the outer conspicuously displayed. The antenna? are geniculate and spiny, with the slender terminal flagellum four-jointed. The back, which is claret-brown with some slight markings, is smooth and shiny, but at the same time under magnification it is seen to be plentifully sprinkled with minute hairs. The pteon has its apex truncate with a slight emargination. It is a character of the genus to have the eyes small but distinct, consisting of only three visual elements embedded in a dark pigment. Mr. Webb reports it from Eton Wick, Langley, Hedsor, and the neighbourhood of Burnham Beeches. Only from the first of these localities comes Trichoniscoides albidus (Budde-Lund), of which the genus and species are alike new to England. The genus was established by Sars in 1898, principally on the character of the eyes, which he found to be ' simple or wholly wanting.' In the present species he describes them as ' distinct, but extremely small, circular, consisting each of a single corneal body, with underlying reddish pigment.' This crustacean is, like Trichoniscus pusillus, barely a sixth of an inch long. Preserved in spirit it is quite pallid. Alive, it is

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Rh described as ' semi-pellucid, of a clear golden yellow colour, with a diffuse minium-red pigment on the back, forming slight ramifications on each side of the segments.' The head has an evenly-rounded front, and is roughened with little tubercles, of which there are transverse rows also on the segments of the perason or middle body. The earlier segments of this part have the postero-lateral corners rounded, the sixth and seventh are angularly produced backwards. The second antennas have the flagellum four-jointed. In the last pair of legs there is a dense ciliation on the outer margin of the sixth joint, and in this the finger to some extent participates. The single specimen procured appears to be a female, as it is without the dentiform projection at the base of the fourth joint, described as characteristic in the seventh pair of legs of the male. From the same locality was derived a solitary specimen of Haplophtbalmus mengii (Zaddach), not previously recorded in this country. The generic name intimates that the eyes are simple, a character shared as we have seen with the preceding species, with which it agrees also in the ciliated margins of the seventh pair of feet and various other details. But it has also characters by which it is easily distinguished. It is paler and smaller, being white in colour and barely an eighth of an inch in length. The head has a triangular front, and dorsally from about the middle it is traversed by longitudinal ribs, which are repeated in six lines on the segments of the person. On the third segment of the pleon are a submedian pair of ribs, which are very distinctive, as nothing of the kind is found on H. danicus or allied species in neighbouring genera. The beauty of this little crustacean is attested by the name H. elegans, given to it by Schobl, who wrongly supposed it to be a new species when instituting for it the genus Haplophtbalmus in 1860.

Of the family Oniscidæ there are several species in this district. For convenience of recognition they may be divided into two sets, those that have the flagellum of the second antennas three-jointed, and those in which it is two-jointed. To the former belongs Philoscia muscorum (Scopoli), a lively, shining, often brightly coloured species, considerably larger than the members which have been discussed of the preceding family. It resembles them in regard to the contracted pleon and the well displayed uropods, but its eyes are more strongly developed, its antennae are not spiny, and the apex of its body is acute. Miss Johnson has sent it from Lane End, and Mr. Webb reports it from several places, to which no doubt innumerable additions could be made by simply extending the search. Similarly Oniscus asellus, Linn., is reported from Iver, Langley, Eton, Eton Wick, Hedsor, Burnham Beeches and Fulmer. This large and broad, rather smooth, slow-moving crustacean is tolerably well known. The contour of the peraeon and pleon here present the continuous lateral curves of an oval, in contrast to the interrupted lines of all the preceding species. Moreover, the inner branch of the uropods in this and most of the species to be subsequently mentioned is almost hidden beneath the apical part of the body, the outer branch alone pro- jecting conspicuously. From Hedsor Mr. Webb has submitted to me

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Rh specimens which, by reason of their smaller size and much more strongly granulated head and body, may be distinct from the common form, but whether for these the name O. fossor, Koch, should be adopted remains uncertain. In the second set the genus Porcellio is as usual represented by the large and very abundant P. scaber, Latreille, sent by the ladies of Lane End, and reported from Mr. Webb's series of localities, 'near Dropmore' being in this case substituted for Hedsor. This species is not quite so broad as Oniscus asellus, and its surface is strongly granular. It is most often of a uniformly blackish grey colour in a general view, though on closer inspection lighter markings can be perceived and the borders are more or less pellucid. Sometimes it is marbled with grey and yellow, and this variety has been distinguished as marmoratus by Brandt and Ratzeburg. In the ordinary form the flagellum of the second antennæ has the two joints nearly equal, or the first a little shorter than the second. In some rather small prettily-marbled specimens submitted by Mr. Webb the first joint is much shorter than the second, a character shared by P. ratzeburgii, Brandt, from which however in some other respects they differ. At Eton Mr. Webb has met with P. dilatatus, Brandt. This broad, moderately granular species has the two joints of the antennary flagellum short and equal. From the preceding species it is well distin- guished by the apical segment, which, instead of being acutely triangular and dorsally grooved, is flat above and drawn out narrowly tongue-like to a rounded tip. In addition to the above a very handsome species, not hitherto included in the British fauna, has been sent me by the Misses Johnson from Lane End and from Eton by Mr. Webb. This new acqui- sition is P. rathkei, Brandt. It is more or less marbled over all the back, but has also three well-marked longitudinal stripes of pale flecks, which are drawn closer together on the pleon than on the person. The surface is moderately granular, but the hind margins of the person segments are smooth, not distinctly tuberculate as in P. scaber. The flagellum of the second antennæ has the first joint somewhat shorter than the second. The apical segment of the body is flat above and subacutely pointed at the tip. This species, like P. ratzeburgii, belongs to a section of the genus in which all the pleopods have the opercular branch provided with trachea? (or pseudo-trachea?), modified that is to say for aerial respira- tion. In the other species above mentioned it is only the first two pairs of pleopods that are thus modified. In the male of P. rathkei the seventh pair of legs have the antepenultimate joint dilated near the base, a peculi- arity to which attention has been called by Professor G. O. Sars. The cosmopolitan species, Metoponorthus pruinosus (Brandt), taken by Mr. Webb at Langley and Eton Wick, agrees much in general shape with Philoscia muscorum, but in other respects more with Porcellio. It has the first two pairs of pleopods tracheate ; the frontal margin is straight. The second joint of the antennary flagellum is much shorter than the first. The apical segment of the body is short, acutely triangular. The surface is finely granular and in colour brown. To the same family belongs the

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Rh And when winds are at war with the ocean,

As the breasts I believed in with me,

If their billows excite an emotion,

It is that they bear me from Thee.

III.

Though the rock of my last Hope is shivered,

And its fragments are sunk in the wave,

Though I feel that my soul is delivered

To Pain—it shall not be its slave.

There is many a pang to pursue me:

They may crush, but they shall not contemn;

They may torture, but shall not subdue me;

'Tis of Thee that I think—not of them.

IV.

Though human, thou didst not deceive me,

Though woman, thou didst not forsake,

Though loved, thou forborest to grieve me,

Though slandered, thou never couldst shake;

Though trusted, thou didst not disclaim me,

Though parted, it was not to fly,

Though watchful, 'twas not to defame me,

Nor mute, that the world might belie.

V.

Yet I blame not the World, nor despise it,

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Rh [Addington] 6 hides. There is land for 6 ploughs. On the demesne are 2; and 8 villeins with 2 bordars have 3 ploughs and there could be a fourth. There are 4 serfs, and meadow (sufficient) for 6 plough (teams). It is and was worth 60 shillings; T.R.E. 100 shillings. This manor Goduin, a man of Earl Leofwine (Lewini), held and could sell.

In [Lathbury] the Bishop of Lisieux holds of the Bishop of Bayeux 1 hide all but 5 feet. There is land for 1 plough, and it is there with 3 villeins and meadow (sufficient) for 1 plough (team). It is and was worth 10 shillings; T.R.E. 20 shillings. This land Siric, a man of Earl Leofwine (Lewini), held and could sell.

[Gayhurst] the Bishop of Lisieux holds of the Bishop of Bayeux, and Robert de Nowers (holds) of him. It is assessed at 5 hides. There is land for 4 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs; and 10 villeins have 2 ploughs. There are 2 serfs, and I mill worth (de) 13 shillings and 4 pence, meadow (sufficient) for 4 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 4 score swine. In all it is and was worth 100 shillings; T.R.E. 8 pounds. This manor Siric, a man of Earl Leofwine (Lewini), held and could sell.

In [(? Little) Brickhill] Turstin holds of the bishop i hide. There is land for 1 plough, but there is no plough there and only 3 villeins (sed non est ibi caruca nisi 3 villani) with 2 bordars. It is and was worth 14 shillings; T.R.E. 20 shillings. This manor Alwin, a man of Estan, held. He could not assign (dare) or sell it so as to alienate it from (extra) Brichelle [Brickhill], Estan's manor.

The Bishop of Coutances holds [Worminghall] and Robert holds of him. It is and was assessed T.R.E. and after (se defendit semper) at 5 hides. There is land for 5 ploughs. On the demesne are 2; and 16 villeins with 6 bordars have 3 ploughs. There are 4 serfs, meadow (sufficient) for 2 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 200 swine. It is and was worth 6 pounds; T.R.E. 7 pounds. This manor Eddeva wife of Wlward held under Queen Eddid and could sell.

The bishop himself holds [Ludgershall]. It is assessed at 9 hides. There is land for 8 ploughs. In the demesne are 4 hides, and on it are 2 ploughs and there could be a third. There 13 villeins with 4 bordars have 5 ploughs. There are 5 serfs, meadow (sufficient) for 8 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 40 swine. In all (totis valentiis) it is and was worth 100 shillings; T.R.E. 6 pounds. This manor Eddeva held of Queen Eddid and could sell.

Two knights (milites) hold of the bishop [Oving]. It is assessed at 10 hides. There is land for 9 ploughs. On the demesne are 4, and there could be a fifth. There 18 villeins have 3 ploughs, and there could be a fourth. There are 8 bordars, meadow (sufficient) for 4 plough (teams), woodland (to feed) 2OO swine. In all (totis valentiis) it is worth 10 pounds; when received 100 shillings; T.R.E. 7 pounds. This manor Edwin, a thegn of King Edward, held and could sell.

In [(? North) Marston] Rannulf holds under the bishop 1 virgate. There is land for half a plough, and there are 2 oxen there. It is and was worth T.R.E. and after (valuit semper) 40 pence. This land Levric, a man of Edduin, held and could sell.

In [Stewkley] William holds 3½ hides as 1 manor. There is land for 9 ploughs. On the demesne are 2 ploughs. There 10 villeins with 10 bordars have 6½ ploughs and there could be half a plough more. There are 5 serfs and meadow (sufficient) for 8 plough (teams). It is and was worth T.R.E. and after (valuit semper) 4 pounds. This manor Wlward cild, a thegn of King Edward, held.

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 * The Ruin of the Ancient Civilization and the Triumph of Christianity (1921) by Guglielmo Ferrero


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Death date from thepeerage.com. - AdamBMorgan (talk) 14:33, 26 November 2012 (UTC)


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56 If my Soul was not fitted to prize it,

'Twas folly not sooner to shun:

And if dearly that error hath cost me,

And more than I once could foresee,

I have found that, whatever it lost me,

It could not deprive me of Thee.

VI.

From the wreck of the past, which hath perished,

Thus much I at least may recall,

It hath taught me that what I most cherished

Deserved to be dearest of all:

In the Desert a fountain is springing,

In the wide waste there still is a tree,

And a bird in the solitude singing,

Which speaks to my spirit of Thee. July 24, 1816. [First published, Prisoner of Chillon, etc., 1816.]


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If these were used only by Calvinists, then I'd agree with the edits you made, however, the Catechisms are also used by Presbyterians. Listing them on the Portal for Calvinism is fine, but classifying them that way individually would be misleading. --EncycloPetey (talk) 15:25, 26 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Presbyterianism is a sub-class of Calvinism. I realize things are a little different here, but @ WP there is a Calvinism portal and Presbyterian articles fall under it, but here you have a separate portal, as if it's a separate branch of Christianity. Anyway, no big deal as long as they show up in the lists of works for Presbyterianism and Calvinism. Jfhutson (talk) 15:51, 26 November 2012 (UTC)

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In short, the more you add now - the more we have to move later. Thank you for your consideration. -- George Orwell III (talk) 23:38, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * I was just going to get the most popular parts like the creeds and Lord's Prayer up. I'm glad to hear someone's working on the whole thing. --Jfhutson (talk) 23:41, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yeah - we try to avoid straight uploads from Google Books because they never allow their plain-text transcription to be saved in their PDFs so when you go to create a new Page: here on.WS under an Index:, you get a blank box instead of something resembling the originally text to work with. In the end, it will be setup so anyone can contribute by adding other pages at any time without the roadblock of having to type it all in word by word. Unfortunately, IA isn't the fastest thing in the free-world so it will a few hours before the processing is done. -- George Orwell III (talk) 23:50, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

✅ -- Index:The Book of Common Prayer.djvu -- George Orwell III (talk) 07:03, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks, that does look much better. --Jfhutson (talk) 13:51, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

Suggestion for the Humble Advice work
Hi, I'm just having a look at Page:Humbleadviceofas00west.djvu/11. I suggest that the Bible verses in this work are linked to our King James version. The format is Rom. 3:14, 15. Unfortunately, we can't link to a range of verses, but I figure if we can offer at least the first verse, then we're helping somewhat. I would have suggested Bible (Authorized Version), but it's not complete enough. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 18:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Good idea. --Jfhutson (talk) 18:33, 27 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Also, thanks for looking at the BCP. --Jfhutson (talk) 18:36, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

For the second reference on Page:Humbleadviceofas00west.djvu/20 I've replaced the  tags with . It's tightened up the line-spacing a little. If you don't like it feel free to put them back, but I thought it might help reduce the length of the ref lists a little. When I saw your initial playing with MarginNote I thought that it looked good, but when the list got longer and longer it got impossible. And I agree that mixing the refs between MarginNote and footnotes won't work either. So, your columned reflist is probably the best we can do under the limits of the Wiki software. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 07:15, 6 March 2013 (UTC)

Heidelburg catechism
I note your note about replacing the pdf with the djvu. I can assist you with this, but is there a problem with the pdf that I can't spot? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 21:15, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I really don't know if it's worth it. My impression from George Orwell above is that running a Google pdf through Archive improves the OCR? --Jfhutson (talk) 21:18, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
 * The text layer on the pdf looks reasonable to me, so this time it's probably not worth it. But if you still want to do it, that's fine. Just let me know. The pdf George was talking about above had no text layer that we could get at. This often happens with Google pdfs, so we generally run them through IA (assuming it's not already there—many works are) and that way get a text layer. I generally avoid Google uploads on IA, unless it's the only copy they've got. For some reason their images are either missing or dreadful. I think it has something to do with the settings on their scanners. The direct uploads from libraries to IA where the library lets IA do the OCR are generally of a much higher quality. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 23:09, 4 March 2013 (UTC)

Your question about chapter dividing lines
Have a look at how I've done this on Page:The Warden.djvu/16. The dividing line still shows in the Page: namespace, but won't in the transcluded chapters. We're going to have to do the section bits at some point anyway, so might as well do it now. If you want to use more meaningful names for the sections (e.g. "Chap1" and "Chap2") then that's fine. For most of my works I've just used "s1" and "s2" on each split page. There's some help for sections at Help:Transclusion, but I find it easier to learn this by looking at examples. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 20:32, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Makes sense. I'm not sure why this is including more than the section I specified. --Jfhutson (talk) 21:16, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * It was because the block center template was terminated after the section end marker rather than before it. I've moved the termination and it's fine now. Beeswaxcandle (talk) 21:24, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks. Would you be able to point me to some directions that would allow me to do to the decoration above the text here what you did to the A? When I follow the directions at help:adding images imagemagick gives me a blank image. --Jfhutson (talk) 21:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Hmm. I don't use Imagemagick and I don't think we've got any directions for how to do it in other ways. I download a jpg version of the relevant page from IA's pageview. Then I do the cleanup in IrfanView (the very full function basic version is a free download). Beeswaxcandle (talk) 21:58, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

The Aux TOC
Hi, I've had a play at User:Beeswaxcandle/Sandbox4 to try and get the chapter titles to line up rather than the scallopped lines they're doing at the moment. The only issue is that the leading has spaced out, but maybe that can be lived with. What do you think? Beeswaxcandle (talk) 04:33, 8 March 2013 (UTC)

nop and its placement
Thought that I would drop a note about nop and its placement when editing in the Page: namespace. The purpose of  in this situation is that it is a placeholder for (space), as that it holds the place for a new paragraph. So for that reason the  needs to be on a new line. Presumably we need to be a little more overt in our help documentation. — billinghurst  sDrewth  02:42, 10 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Documentation looks fine, I either didn't read it or forgot. Thanks. --Jfhutson (talk) 02:58, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

The Holy Bible, containing the Old & New Testament & the Apocrypha
A little while back, you specified that this text was dated 1911. Do you know for certain that's true? If so, is it this one? CMBJ (talk) 11:54, 15 May 2013 (UTC)

Updated scripts
Hi Jfhutson. I edited your common.js to update you to the latest version of TemplateScript. You were using a much older version called regex menu framework, so you should notice a lot of improvements. A few of the big changes:

I also migrated your custom scripts to use community scripts where equivalent. This adds a new Special:TemplateScript page to configure your scripts, and enables compatibility with upcoming features.

Let me know if you notice anything broken or missing, and I'll look into it ASAP. :) — Pathoschild 04:46, 17 May 2016 (UTC)

hyphenation and spacing
Hi. We haven't bothered preserving hyphenation within a page for a long time. It was and is a pretty valueless exercise, so please don't feel obliged. Also, with works that that are justified, we don't look to preserve (the weird) spacing unless there is clarity that this is required. We are not looking to make the proofreading harder than it needs to be. — billinghurst  sDrewth  15:48, 4 June 2016 (UTC)

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