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receipt, as a substitute for cork-lining for drawers in cabinets of insects, will be 

 found a very good one, and it does not require above a fifth of the expense 

 attending the usual method : — 



White Resin, 10 oz. 

 Bees- Wax, 6oz. 

 Tallow, 2oz. 

 Turpentine, 1 oz. 

 The last item, might, I should think, be dispensed with. — F. 0. Morris, Don- 

 caster, Nov. 4, 1837. 



Large Ray. — An enormous Ray has been taken off Feroe, which weighed 384 

 pounds, was 13 inches thick, 8 feet 8 inches long, and 6 feet 2 inches wide. — 

 Athenceum, Oct, 21, communicated by Charles Liverpool, M.D. 



Hybrid between a Lion and a Tiger. — " Ibrida quo pacto sit." Horace, 

 Satires, 1. vii., 2. — Mr. Reid, of Doncaster, has in his museum a very fine spe- 

 cimen of an animal between a Lion and a Tiger. In size and shape it more 

 resembles the latter species, and in colour the former. It was bred in Yorkshire. 

 I consider it a very great curiosity. — F. 0. Morris, Doncaster, June, 1837. 



Notice respecting the Whiteheaded Osprey (Pandion halicetus). — In a 

 former number of The Naturalist, I stated, that an adult male of this species, 

 which alighted in an exhausted state on the rigging of a small vessel passing 

 Flamborough-head, was brought to Scarborough, and presented to the museum 

 of that town by John Tindall, Esq. I may add that the bird, while in the 

 hands of the sailor-boy, evidently did not admire its situation — that of being 

 carried round for sale. It assumed a very dignified appearance ; and, although 

 no doubt both hungry and fatigued, its proud spirit looked with apparent disdain 

 upon a piece of raw meat offered to it. Since the capture of this bird another 

 was repeatedly seen at Scalby-beck, a rivulet celebrated for its delicious Trout. 

 It branches from the Derwent, and empties itself into the sea about a mile to the 

 north of Scarborough. 



This epicurean angler afterwards took up its quarters at the Hackness fish- 

 ponds, a few miles from its previous abode. But it was not long suffered to 

 remain here, the keepers having received instructions from the generous proprietor, 

 Sir J. V. B. Johnstone, Bart., to secure all desirable objects of Natural History* 

 for the Scarborough Museum. Accordingly, in order to immortalize this gour- 

 mand, as much pains were taken to seize it as though it had been a cut-purse or 

 a swindler. The bird escaped after all. Another individual of this interesting 



* Were proprietors of parks to adopt this plan, and on the other hand to forbid all unnecessary 

 destruction of many birdsjvulgarly termed " varmint," the system would, we are confident, prove 

 beneficial to all parties.— Ed. 



