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Aphanopus carbo in British seas. From the Glasgo 

 Herald of 17th September last we learn that Messrs Sawers, Ltd., 

 have recently presented to the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow, a fine 

 specimen of the interesting deep-sea fish, Aphanopus carbo, which 

 was captured in the Atlantic, about twenty-three miles to the north- 

 east of Rockall, at a depth of 180 fathoms, just on the edge of the 

 great submarine plateau. The present example measures 3 feet 

 10 inches in length and 4 inches in depth, while its greatest girth 

 is 9 inches. Its body is scaleless, elongated, and band-like, the 

 head is long and pointed, and the jaws are furnished with a 

 single row of strong lanceolate teeth. The eye is of large size, 

 and adapted to the conditions which exist at great depths. This 

 interesting fish belongs to the family Trichiuridre. [Eds.] 



Additions to the list of Forth Spiders. While collecting 

 spiders in the Trossachs, on 6th June last, along with Dr Randell 

 Jackson of Chester, I captured an adult male of Zora uemoralis, 

 Bl., among withered oak leaves above the road on the north side 

 of Loch Katrine. From heath in a rather marshy piece of ground 

 adjoining the loch, Dr Jackson swept an adult male, Robertus 

 artmdinetus, Camb. ; and among the specimens he took home for 

 examination, there are, he informs me, examples of Wideria cucullafa, 

 C.L.K., and Porrhomma pallidum, Jackson. These are first 

 records of these four species for the Forth area, and elsewhere 

 in Scotland they have only been found on one or two occasions. 

 William Evans. 



BOOK NOTICES 



The Gannet : A Bird with a Historv. By J. H. Gurney, F.Z.S., etc. 

 Illustrated by numerous photographs, maps, and drawings, and a 

 coloured plate by Joseph Wolf. London : Witherby & Co. 27s. 

 6d. net. 



This is a volume which appeals in a very direct manner to 

 all who are interested in the natural history of Scotland, since it treats 

 of a bird which is pre-eminently Scottish. The seas of northern Britain 

 are its metropolis, and from a Scottish islet the Bass Rock it derives 

 the specific name of bassana, by which it is known to scientists the 

 world over. It is a singularly interesting species to ornithologists 

 generally, for, as the title of the book indicates, it is a bird with a 

 history one which in Britain dates from as long ago as the year 1278. 



