Mr. E. Lovett on some suggestions for Collecting, Sc. 265 



868, 868a. Eared Grebe, Podiceps auritus.—" M.a\e, Hammer 

 Pond, 1840 ; female, Forked Pond, 1840." ^.r o n i j ■. 



875. Little Auk.— "Taken at Haslemere; fro«i,^. Scofield. 

 " Four others have passed through the hands of W. btaflora 

 within forty years, that have been procured in this immediate 

 neighbourhood."— Extract from MS. note-book. , p , 



876, 376b. Puffin, Fratermla arctica. — "Hascombe rona, 

 Witley ; and Highdown Ball." 



We have thus records of just 100 species which seem worth 

 noticing as being of more or less rarity and interest. It is a 

 goodly Ust, no doubt. Some of the more critical and difecult 

 species may probably need closer examination, and more exact 

 Imowledge, than we could give them on our hasty inspection. 

 As the collection is happily to be kept together in a pub ic 

 institution, this examination will not be difficult. 1 hope tiie 

 MS. notes of Mr. Stafford have gone with the collection, and 

 will be preserved; these notes should be carefully compared witli 

 the labels on the cases, many of which are becoming barely 

 legible through age. 



83. — Some Suggestions for Collecting and Preserving 

 Specimens of Marine Animals. 



By Edward Lovett. 



(Read May 14th, 1890.) 



The following observations may be of some value, as they are 

 the result chiefly of actual experience, and have been found of 

 practical use to the author. 



There are very few coast localities that are absolutely useless 

 as collecting grounds, but of course some places are exceedingly 

 rich in marine fauna, whilst others are poor; yet it often 

 happens that an unfavourable locality is productive of varieties 

 and abnormal forms from the very fact, that it is an unfavourable 

 locality. As regards localities rich in marine hfe, the Channel 

 Islands, and the shores of Cornwall, Devon, Sussex, South 

 Wales, and the Fame Islands may be mentioned. It is worth 

 while, if possible, to be also near a fishing town, especially 

 where dredging-boats work, as a bushel of refuse brought in by 

 such a boat will often contain a large quantity of rare things, 

 and more than one addition to the British marine fauna has 

 been obtained from the refuse of a "scallop" dredge. The work 

 of dredging can of course be done by the collector himself, and 

 needs no description ; but, where a dredge cannot be obtained, 



