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Cheiridium museorum (Leach] and Chernes rufeolus (Simon] 

 in the Tweed Area. On the i gth of September last, while staying 

 at Haswellsykes Farm, Peebles, I found the small Pseudo-Scorpion, 

 Cheiridium museorum, common on pieces of wood, etc., which 

 seemed to have lain undisturbed for a considerable period in the 

 stable-loft. Specimens have also been obtained on subsequent dates 

 both by my friends Messrs. G. A. and R. B. Whyte and by myself, 

 the habitat always being the same. Several nests were discovered 

 on i gth October, one with two young. I believe it is generally 

 understood that C. museorum never has more than from two to 

 three young. 



On i gth September last I also obtained my first record here for 

 Chernes rufeolus, one mature specimen being taken from some chaff 

 in one of the stalls. Mr. R. B. Whyte took four of the same species 

 from under some stones on the floor of the same stable on ist 

 October. ALASTAIR URQUHART, Edinburgh. 



Sirex noetilio, F,, in Forth. It appears that the Wood Wasp 

 which it has been the custom to record in this country under the 

 name of Sirex juvenctts is not the true S. juvencus, R, but S. noetilio, 

 F. (cf. Rev. F. D. Morice's remarks in " Ent. Mo. Mag.," 1904, 

 p. 34). I have submitted a specimen ( ? ), which was caught on a 

 felled pine at Penicuik in September 1906, to Mr. Morice, and he 

 says it is noetilio and \\otjuvencus. Other specimens in my collec- 

 tion from Dalmeny and Gosford clearly also belong to this species. 

 WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



OBITUARY NOTICES. 



Edward A. L. Batters, B.A., LL.B. The death of Mr. Batters has 

 been a grievous blow to British algological study ; for there seemed 

 every reason to expect many years of energetic and successful in- 

 vestigation among the seaweeds of our coasts, and the publication 

 by him of the book or books on his favourites that he had showed 

 himself so fit to write and that are so much required, embodying the 

 advances made in this field in other regions along with his personal 

 discoveries. It is known that he intended to prepare an algological 

 flora of the British coasts ; but the manuscript was not advanced 

 enough to be of service. 



Born in December 1860 at Enfield, he was educated at King's 

 College School, London, and at Cambridge, and afterwards studied 

 law at Lincoln's Inn. But, possessed of private means, he did not 



