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acting cameras, which are at intervals illuminated by flash- 

 light. The animals after a time are stated to take but little 

 notice of the light, which it is suggested that they may regard 

 as a form of lightning. It would be most exciting if these 

 photographs were to reveal one of the unknown large animals 

 which there is reason to believe still exist in the interior of 

 Africa. Of four at least there are more or less graphic descrip- 

 tions from eye-witnesses, both European and native ; but 

 more than a passing sight has hitherto been wanting. The 

 9th Zoological Congress was held in March, 1913, at Monaco, 

 where the Prince has founded an Oceanographical Museum 

 for all matters connected with the ocean. Amongst other 

 collections there is one of well-preserved deep-sea fishes, 

 with, in each case, the original painting of the fish made 

 immediately after capture. A new species of deep sea fish 

 was described which was obtained from a depth of 6,035 

 metres a greater depth than any at which a fish had been 

 previously recorded. It will interest the members of the 

 Dorset Field Club to know that one of their body, Lord 

 Walsingham, represented Great Britain at the Congress. A 

 young gorilla has been living in the Dublin Zoological 

 Gardens since January. This species is a rarity in British 

 Zoological Gardens, and it is believed that there is at present 

 only one on the Continent, namely at Stuttgart, where it 

 has lived for several years. 



BOTANY AND AGRICULTURE. 



The Botanical Section of the British Association was last 

 year presided over by a lady, who gave a learned address on 

 the subject of botanical embryology, to which I must refer 

 those who wish to investigate the subject. Amongst the 

 papers read in this Section, the one that seems most suitable 

 for mention here is on the subject of Suceda fruticosa (shrubby 

 sea blite) which the author considers the most effective 

 stabiliser of all British shingle plants. This plant, a small 

 shrub with narrow fleshy leaves, is common on the Chesil 



