iiOO Scientific Intelligence. — Zoology. 



of Scot^anj ; the Loch Roag herrings being accounted the 

 largest and richest of all. Swedish vessels used to rendezvous 

 in the loch, and buy up the herrings at Is. a crane, i. e. a barrel of 

 green fish as taken out of the net. Soon after 1750, the her- 

 rings abandoned Loch Roag, and for five and thirty years none 

 were seen in it. About 1790, the shoals began again to revisit 

 the loch ; and for several years after that date very large and 

 fine herrings were taken in it, during the months of November, 

 December and January. In the course of the season of 1794, 

 no fewer than 90 sail of decked vessels entered the loch, and the 

 whole herrings captured, were bought up from the country 

 fishers at the high rate of about half-a-guinea a crane. (Statis- 

 tical Account of Scotland, vol. xix. p. 252). About 1797 the 

 herrings once more bade adieu to Loch Roag, and no shoal has 

 entered its precincts till the present autun7n, when, after the 

 lapse of 32 years, their presence was again witnessed, to the 

 great joy of the parishioners of Uig. Mr Alexander Campbell, 

 light-housekeeper at Isle of Glass, writes to Mr Stevenson, civil 

 engineer, on 31st October 1829, " There is this season a tolerably 

 good fishing of herrings and cod on the east and west coast of 

 Long Island : even in Loch Roag a quantity have been caught, 

 where there have been no herrings for these thirty years past. 

 At that time back, this loch was the first in the Highlands for 

 herrings of a large size." 



25. Notice* of the Comparative Anatomist, Bojanus. — This 

 unfortunate man was not only one of the most skilful anato- 

 mists of our time, as is shewn by his great work on the Anato- 

 my of the Tortoise — a work which has never been surpassed, — but 

 was also deeply versed in the philosophy of this important de- 

 partment of natural history. He died at Darmstadt, in the 

 month of April 1827, in the vigour of life, at the age of fifty- 

 one. His beloved wife, Avho watched and tended him with 

 measureless aflPection, was separated from him by a sudden death, 

 an event which hastened his dissolution. His last hours were 

 soothed by the devoted kindness of his sister. He suffered un- 

 der a fistula of the back, which penetrated to his lungs, and the 

 bones also were probably corroded. He could stand, but with 

 the greatest diflficulty — he could not sit erect — and Avas almost 



