238 Miscellaneous. 



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 Bremen, fvia Belgium f, 



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THE TUI, OR PARSON-BIRD. 



The ' Dido,' Capt. Maxwell, from Auckland, New Zealand, has 

 brought home a few valuable curiosities for naturalists, the chief of 

 which is a small black bird, about the size of the English blackbird, 

 called the Tui (the parson-bird of Captain Cook), believed to be the 

 first of the species ever brought to England alive. Many previous 

 attempts have been made to bring this bird to England, but all 

 hitherto have failed. — From the Times. 



OBITUARY.— Mr. Edward Forster. 

 We have to record the decease of our highly esteemed friend 

 Edward Forster, Esq., F.R.S., the Treasurer and a Vice-President of 

 the Linnsean Society, of which Society also he was one of the oldest 

 Fellows. Mr. Forster died on Wednesday, February the 21st, after 

 a severe attack of cholera of less than two days' continuance, having 

 pieviously enjoyed his usual and equable good health up to his 84th 

 year. His strong attachment to his favourite botanical pursuits, 

 and his zeal for the prosperity of the Linnsean Society, of whose 

 eminent founder Sir J. E. Smith he had been an intimate and 

 warmlv attached friend, require an ampler record than can now be 

 given of one who in every relation of life was truly estimable : 

 Quem licet in sera rapuerunt fata senecta, 



Et vitse saturum sopiit alta quies, 

 Nos tamen hunc, velut immaturo funere raptum, 

 Flemus, et effusis diffluimus lacrymis. 



Vixisti bene ac beate ! 



valente 



Semper corpore, mente sana, amicis 

 Jucundus, pietate singulari. 



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