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The teeth in the lower jaw correspond with those of the upper, although a young 

 one, which appears from the state of the ossification, and the total length being 

 only three feet four inches. It has no remains of milk teeth. The following 

 particulars with regard to the skeleton may perhaps contribute towards the eluci- 

 dation of the genus. The palatine bones are as figured by Mr. Bell. Vertebrae, 

 cervical 7 ; dorsal 15 ; sacral 6 ; caudal 8 ; the tip of the tail was slightly 

 injured, but I believe the enumeration to be correct. — T. C. Eyton, Esq., in the 

 Magazine of Zoology and Botany for February, 1838, No. xii., Vol. II. p. 541. 



Substitute for Cork Lining in Entomological Cabinets. — Having for- 

 warded the receipt communicated to you by Mr. Morris, to a very excellent 

 entomologist of Liverpool, A. Melly, Esq., for the purpose of asking his opinion 

 respecting it, he states that he has always been in the habit of using composition 

 instead of cork, and that he finds it not only cheaper, but quite equal to cork, and 

 that on the Continent the plan is generally adopted. The one he employs is 

 much harder, and is composed of two -thirds of the best Bees-wax and one-third 

 of the best resin ; but he observes that, in this climate, the addition of tallow 

 cannot do much harm, and will save something in the cost ; the great point is to 

 melt it well, and to pass the resin through a sieve before the wax is added. The 

 same gentleman has the best cases for insects that I have ever seen, and they are 

 very reasonable in price. They are made by Messrs. Gillow & Co., of Lancas- 

 ter, who, I believe, have an excellent name both for cases and cabinets. In 

 Liverpool some collectors are in the habit of using prepared turf for the lining oe 

 cases, but from the experience that I have had of it, I do not like it at all. It 

 comes cheaper than cork, but is far inferior to cork or wax. — T. B. Hall, Wood- 

 side, Liverpool, Jan. 26, 1838. 



Carabus agrestis, C. hortensis, and C. nemoralis. — Weaver writes to me 

 that a Mr. Walker had taken six specimens of Carabus agrestis in a Corn-field 

 in the north of England. In the Linnsean Cabinet Carabus hortensis and C. 

 nemoralis are mixed up as one species. — J. C. Dale, Glanville's Wootton, Dorset- 

 shire, May 15, 1837. 



The Natterjack. — The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, in his excellent Manual of 

 British Vertebrated Animals, gives a very good description of this animal, under 

 the name of Bufo calamita, Laurent. Among other particulars he states, that 

 it was first observed near Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, by the late Sir Joseph 

 Banks. It has since been met with in plenty on many of the heaths about 

 London, as well as on Gamlingay Heath, Cambridgeshire, and in two or three 

 localities in Norfolk. It is of much more rare occurrence than the Common 

 Toad, and its pace is a kind of shuffling run. It spawns later in the season, and 

 appears to affect dry sandy districts. — T. B. Hall, Woodside, Liverpool, Jan. 26, 

 1837. 



