THE VANGE MINERAL WELLS.
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This analysis, made by E. J. Parry, on October 12, 1922, is
as follows :— (presumably in parts per 100,000).
The chief difference between this water and that from Mr.
Cash's wells seems to be in the absence of sulphate of potash
in the former ; the total sulphates are also less.
The new well sunk on Mr. Cash's land and inspected by the
members of the Club, gives a more highly sulphated water than
the original well, as shown in the following analysis by Dr.
Thresh :—
Red Throated Diver at Bocking.—On February 16th, 1923, I had
brought to me a living adult male Red-Throated Diver, which had just
been captured in a field at Bocking. It was uninjured, but with its breast
and wing feathers smothered with crude oil, and was apparently unable to
fly further owing to this. We are quite seventeen miles from the coast.
Alfred Hills.
A living specimen of the Common Dab (Pleuronectes limanda), seven inches
in length, captured at Leigh, Essex, was observed to excrete a mass of some
forty or fifty dark-coloured plant-seeds, which were identified as Linseed
(Linum usitatissimum), surely an unusual food for a marine fish.
F. J. Lambert.