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520 lection of Hydroida made during the exploring voyage of the ' Challenger ' was assigned to Professor Allman for determination and description. He has published the results of his original investigations in the Philosophical Transactions, the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the Royal Irish Academy, and of the Linnean and Zoological Societies of London.

We take the above from an obituary notice in the 'Daily Chronicle.'

a meeting of the British Ornithologists' Club, on Oct. 19th, Mr. G.H. Caton Haigh exhibited and made remarks upon a Warbler (Lusciniola schwarzi, Radde), which he had shot on the first of that month near North Cotes, Lincolnshire. The large bastard-primary easily distinguished the members of this genus (and those of Herbivocula) from the Phylloscopi. The summer home of L. schwarzi appeared to be in South-eastern Siberia, and reached about as far west as Tomsk, according to Godlewski, who had mentioned the powerful note of the bird; this was described by Mr. Haigh as disproportionately loud, and it led to the thorough beating-out of the hedge in which the bird was skulking. It would be remembered that easterly gales had prevailed for a considerable time. So far, L. schwarzi seemed not to have been previously recorded within the European area. A coloured figure of the specimen was to appear in the next number of the 'Ibis.'

W.J.W., writing in the 'Westminster Gazette' on the consternation among lovers of animal life at the Report of the Select Committee of the House of Commons upon the Science and Art Department's Museums advising the abolition of the Frank Buckland Collection, observes: — It is common knowledge that Frank Buckland intended the museum as an educational centre, and left a sum of money to ultimately endow a Lectureship in connection with it, which has not yet been brought into existence. To this it may be added that no post is likely to be created according to the terms of the will, for the trustee decamped with the money. Unless, therefore, the Government wakes up to its responsibility with regard to the direct advancement of many industries dealing with food supplies, and consequently grafted upon natural history, and begins its work with establishing a proper economic museum bearing upon fisheries, and using the Buckland bequest as a nucleus, this interesting series of specimens, with their old associations—unless some private benefactor comes forward—must be for ever lost to the country and to the admirers of one of the last naturalists of the old school.