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. 

 singidare. 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 AcamcuxMs close to their parent. — Annales des Sciences Na- 

 turelles, serie 5, tome viii. pp. 28-30. 



New British Fishes. 



Mr. William Edwards, of St. Mary-at-Hill, E.G., being at Hull 

 when the fishing-smack ' Swallow,' of Hull, Capt. Thomas Sparks, 

 arrived, which had been five weeks on a fishing voj^age, having been 

 blown over the north side of the Jutland Eeef, observed that she 

 had brought with her some specimens of Chimcera monstrosa, of Se- 

 hastes viviparus, and of the Black Centrina (Spinax niger). Mr. 

 Edwards kindly sent and presented two specimens of Chimcera (male 

 and female) and one of each of the other specimens to the British 

 Museum. It is the first time that Sebasfes vivipara and Spinax 

 niger have been caught so near the English coast. They are interest- 

 ing additions to the marine fauna. — J. E. Gkat. 



Cetacean Animals in Musmms. 



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. Yan 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. 



The late Pkofessor Van dek Hoeven. 



Jan Van der Hoeven, the Professor of Zoology in the University 

 of Leyden, who was born in Kotterdam 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 translated for English students by Prof. Clark, 

 of Cambridge. 



