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had been observed — a fact which does not look as if this species 

 commonly bred in the settled parts of Greenland. We trust 

 that our friends may find it so employed further to the north- 

 ward, whither the ships were seen proceeding by the ' Val- 

 orous/ which brought home these tidings. 



Mr. Dresser has in preparation a reprint of Eversmann's 

 'Addenda ad Zoograpliiam Rosso-Asiaticam.^ The great 

 rarity of the three fasciculi of this tract is doubtless known 

 to most of our readers, the whole stock of copies having been 

 burnt soon after their publication. It is now two years since 

 Mr. Dresser first began to make inquiries for the difi'erent 

 portions of the work ; and only recently has he succeeded in 

 finding and procuring from different quarters the loan of all 

 three parts, when he at once placed them in the hands of the 

 printers. Only within the last few weeks we found a com- 

 plete set in a volume of tracts belonging to the library of the 

 late Hugh E. Strickland, and recently presented by Mrs. 

 Strickland to the University of Cambridge. This is the only 

 complete copy we know of in any library. Intending sub- 

 scribers to Mr. Dresser^s reprint are requested to send their 

 names to him at 6 Tenterden Street, Hanover Square. 



At a meeting of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' So- 

 ciety, ou the 28th of September, Mr. Southwell announced 

 the interesting discovery of ten letters, which he exhibited, 

 written by Gilbert White, of Selborne, to Robert Marsham, 

 of Stratten-Strawless, in Norfolk, of whose gi'cat-grandson 

 they, having never before been out of the possession of the 

 family, are now the property. The first of these letters, a 

 copy of which we have been permitted to see, bears date 13th 

 August, 1790, and the last 15th June, 1793, only a few days 

 before the writer's death. To ornithologists the most curious 

 fact which they reveal is the occurrence in Norfolk of an ex- 

 ample of Tickodroma muraria — the unmistakable description 

 of which is written by Marsham on the back of one of the 

 letters, and seems to have been at once recognized by White. 

 According to the evidence collected by Messrs. Sharpe and 



