312 Miscellaneous. 
being formed only at two points, one on the right, the other on the 
left of the posterior third of the body. This is also the case in L. 
singuare. The number of buds may reach five or six on each side ; 
on attaining a certain size they detach themselves, and then adhere 
to the Acamarchis close to their parent.—Annales des Sciences Na- 
turelles, série 5, tome viii. pp. 28-30. 
New British Fishes. 
Mr. William Edwards, of St. Mary-at-Hill, E.C., being at Hull 
when the fishing-smack ‘Swallow,’ of Hull, Capt. Thomas Sparks, 
arrived, which had been five weeks on a fishing voyage, having been 
blown over the north side of the Jutland Reef, observed that she 
had brought with her some specimens of Chimera monstrosa, of Se- 
bastes viviparus, and of the Black Centrina (Spinaw niger). Mr. 
Edwards kindly sent and presented two specimens of Chimera (male 
and female) and one of each of the other specimens to the British 
Museum. It is the first time that Sebastes vivipara and Spinax 
nager have been caught so near the English coast. They are interest- 
ing additions to the marine fauna.—J, E. Gray. 
Cetacean Animals in Museums. 
Prof. Van Beneden has lately published a catalogue of the skele- 
tons of Cetacea contained in different museums. According to his 
Catalogue, the British Museum contains the skeletons or parts of 
skeletons of sixty-one species of Cetacea, the Paris Museum 
thirty-four species, the Museum of Louvain (under M. Van Beneden’s 
own direction) twenty-five species, the Museum of the College of 
Surgeons twenty-one species, the Museum of Leyden twenty-one 
species, and the Museum of Brussels nineteen’species. These are 
the museums mentioned that have the largest number of species. 
The British Museum also contains twenty stuffed specimens of Ceta- 
ceans, belonging to eleven species, three of the specimens being 
whales, the rest dolphins and porpoises. 
TuE LATE Proresson VAN DER HoErveEN. 
Jan Van der Hoeven, the Professor of Zoology in the University 
of Leyden, who was born in Rotterdam on the 9th of March 1801, 
died at Leyden on the 11th of March 1868. He was the author of 
various papers on different branches of zoology. A list of no less 
than seventy-eight essays occurs under his name in Engelmann’s 
‘ Bibliotheca Zoologica.’ He published a very good ‘Handbook of 
Zoology,’ which was translates for English students by Prof. Clark, 
of Cambridge. 
