Abstract
THE annual report of the Marlborough College Natural History Society, the 75th in series, shows evidence of considerable vigour under the presidency of Mr. L. G. Peirson, who is clearly a naturalist of wide attainment. The area of work is defined as ten miles from the College as centre. All the various sections (Astronomy, Archaeology, Ornithology, Botany, and Entomology) seem to have vigorous boy members with to each a master having the same hobby. This year the most notable record is that of 558 species and varieties of flowering plants—evidence of close raking, though the surrounding country is singularly varied with its forest and great downs, its chalk hills and lands of high cultivation, its water meadows and valleys of rocks. It is the only place where the Icterine Warbler has been known to breed in England, and perhaps this is true of the Sand Grouse, which once seemed to bid fair to become a permanent resident of Martinsell, drinking from its dewponds.
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