G. NATURAL HISTORY AND ZOOLOGY. 283 



tralasian and Polynesian material, already occupies a very 

 prominent rank. Combined with the exhibition of the col- 

 lections and the sale of the duplicates is a series of publica- 

 tions based upon the material of the museum, among which 

 one of great importance has just appeared, in the form of the 

 results of an investigation of the fishes, by Mr. Andrew Gar- 

 rett. Mr. Garrett is an American by birth, having been em- 

 ployed in the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Cambridge, 

 after which he was engaged by the Messrs. Godeffroy in their 

 own behalf. 12 A, December 18, 1873, 120. 



CEMENT FOE AQUARIA. 



An adhesive cement for aquaria may be made, according 

 to Klein, by mixing equal parts of flower of sulphur, pulver- 

 ized sal ammoniac, aud iron filings, with good linseed-oil var- 

 nish ; and then adding enough of pure white-lead to form a 

 firm, easily Avorked mass. 15 (7, XXL, 335. 



NATURAL HISTORY OF THE BERMUDAS. 



During the past winter Mr. J.Matthew Jones, a well-known 

 Nova Scotian naturalist, has been engaged in continuing his 

 explorations into the natural history of the Bermudas, com- 

 menced by him many years ago. His observations prove, in 

 his opinion, that the whole formation has suffered, at some 

 uncertain period, considerable subsidence, attended by vio- 

 lence, and suggests the propriety of causing borings to be 

 made to ascertain the true character of the island founda- 

 tion, and thus solve a question of much importance to science. 

 The vegetation of the islands he found to partake more par- 

 ticularly of the character of that of the Southern United 

 States, especially as regards the flora of the coast, which con- 

 sists of a mixture of West Indian forms and others imported 

 accidentally or otherwise from Europe species proved not 

 to be, as a rule, widely distributed, but to be mainly local. 

 One district in particular, not over a square mile in extent, 

 named Walsingham, which is cavernous in a high degree, 

 possesses plants unknown in other parts of the islands. Sev- 

 eral species of fish new to previous collections were received 

 by Mr. Jones. The genera Serranus, Caranx, and Murmna 

 appeared to be best represented in those waters, and of the 

 former some immense specimens were met with. Carcharias 



