288 NOTES—ORIGINAL AND SELECTED.
MISCELLANEOUS.
A Nature Study Exhibition was held in the Essex
Museum of Natural History during the months of June, July,
and August.
A number of small tanks, placed in the room over the
library, were used for demonstrating life in ponds and streams
by means of an exhibition of living specimens of aquatic
larvae of insects, water-spiders, pond-snails, newts, sticklebacks,
etc. Half-a-dozen breeding-cages were fitted up, and crowds of
delighted children were able to follow the various stages in the
life-histories of some of the commoner butterflies and moths.
A series of "Nature Study Calendars" and studies of bird
and plant life, prepared by the students of Bedford College, were
also exhibited, through the kindness of Miss W. R. N. Holmer.
This exhibit appealed particularly to those interested in methods
of nature study teaching.
The exhibit of wild plants, which has now been held in the
museum for some years during the summer months, was extended,
and it was possible for one to study many representatives of our
flora in various stages from bud to fruit. A number of dried
preparations illustrated some of the methods of seed-dispersal.
Photographic transparencies of wild plants in their natural
surroundings were shown in the gallery. These photographs
were taken by Mr. A. W. Dennis.
Epping Forest Notes.—Forest-Keeper Deery reports that
during the past summer a Red hind and fawn have been seen on
several occasions in Epping Forest. Some two or three years
ago a hind escaped from Lady Bute's herd at Cheshunt, and it
is conjectured that this may be the same animal.
He also noticed a Fallow doe on 19th July, having the left
side of her face, from nose to ear, quite white, the rest of the body
being the normal dark, almost black, colour characteristic of
the Forest deer.
On 5th July, the same keeper saw a Rook attack and kill a
young Squirrel in Monk Wood. The bird struck the squirrel
while in the top of a tree, and caused it to fall to the ground
half-dead ; whereupon the rook flew down and pecked it as it lay.
—Percy Thompson, Loughton, 28th November 1910.