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Beaulieu (Hants), are recorded in the report (p. 367). He took
large flint pebbles from the beach near the mouth of the river
Beaulieu, and dipped them into a pot of paint, selecting those
stones which had holes in them, because paint wears off outside
ordinary pebbles. Then he turned them out on the shore four
or five years ago, between high and low water mark. All the
stones thus marked travelled eastward, though some moved
much further than others. As to the rate of progress he
remarks:—"I should say the average drift between October,
when I turned them out, and the next October, was, roughly,
about half a mile."
Appendix No. X consists (pp. 141-158) of statements by Mr.
W. Whitaker about the coast line from Lynn to Wells (Norfolk)
and from Yarmouth to Eastbourne (Suffolk, Essex, Kent, and
Sussex), and of a chronological list of works relating to coast
erosion, coast accretion, and coast deposits of England and
Wales. The earliest of the books or papers mentioned is dated
a.d. 1675, the latest 1907, and the list occupies rather more than
ten pages.
Among the Essex subjects touched upon are the reclamation
works at Fambridge. But it is impossible in the space available
to give even the barest catalogue of the contents of this
important Blue Book, which should be consulted by all
interested, from whatever point of view, in coast erosion,
accretion, and reclamation.
T. V. Holmes.
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MAMMALS.
Occurrence of the Serotine Bat (Vesperugo serotinus)
in Essex.—Since this bat appears to be of uncommon
occurrence in the County, it may be of interest to record
the capture of two specimens, which I secured during the
first week in August in the roof of our house, near Loughton.
There was a colony of about twenty, which had taken up their
abode in a warm corner next the kitchen chimney in company
with a number of Pipistrelles (Vesperugo pipistrellus).—G. Dent,
Hatfields, Loughton. September 19th, 1907.