The photographs, of which the following paper is an explanation, were (with some others referred to in the footnote) presented to the Society by Miss FfenneU, and exhibited on her behalf at the meeting of February aoth, 1895. As it seemed desirable to preserve a record of the facts relating to the Richmond ash, so far as they are known, she has added to the Society's 'debt to her by Breeding to the Editor's request to set them down here.] The Shrew Ash in Richmond Park. of that Tear. Sheen

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... ii seen in the distance. Although not taken from exactly the same standing point as Plate IV., the identity of the lower projecting elbow-like bough, after thirty-five years of growth, with the left-hand side bough of the tree in 1856, is pretty well shown by this view. PLATK VL-The Shrew Ash, from a photograph taken m September, 1891, and exhibited at the Folklore Congress of that year. This view gives pro minence to the rounded projection on the left-hand side, where one end of the " witch-bar " was attached to the tree, and also displays on the right-hand side the contrivance or conduit set up by the ash in its old age for conveyance of sap, which has preserved the vitality of the tree to the present day.