* .* * We congratulate the Council of the National
Trust on their twenty-ninth annual report. There have been nine new acquisitions to the Trast's great National Gallery of Natural Pictures.- In October, 1923, the Trust got its biggest canvas up to now in the three thousand acres, including Kirk Fell, Great Gable, and Green Gable, presented by the Fell and Roek-Climbing Club of the. English Lake District as a memorial to those of their members who died in the War. Abetter memorial to brave men than this glorious gift cannot be imagined. The Trust has also- received a magnificent present from a member of the Buxton family, the late Mr. E. N. Buxton, in the shape of a piece of primaeval woodland known as " Iiatfeld 'Forest." It lies close to Bishop's Stortford. Mr. Noel Buxton, M.P., has generously added the gift of the ancient house at Coggeshall, known as " Paycocke's House," a remarkable example of the richly ornamented home of a merchant at the end of the fifteenth- century.
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