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however, will at once separate them, there being below the lateral line 
some beautiful white spots, edged with rich carmine and brown. In some 
specimens these spots are white only, and without the rich colouring, 
but this difference may be sexual.—Jouwn T. Carrtnaron (Royal Aquarium, 
Westminster). 
GREENLAND BULLHEAD at Bricutron.—Mr. Carrington has recently 
been good enough to send me three examples of this fish captured 
during the month of February this year at Brighton, two being five 
inches and one six inches and a half in length. Couch observes that 
“no more than two instances are known of its having been taken in 
the British Islands, and both of these occurred in Ireland.” It is a fish 
which was long confounded with the common Father-lasher. Having 
received two Greenland examples from the Leyden Museum, I have 
been able to compare them carefully with the Brighton specimens, and, 
without entering into details, I may observe that they agree in every 
essential respect, and those examples which are marked with large 
round white spots are said to be males. All the three examples alluded to 
had these round white spots, and all were males. It is, however, worth 
recording that such large and brilliantly-coloured examples have been taken 
so far south as Brighton.— Francis Day. 
Deato or Mr. Bett, or SeLtporne.—To every reader of ‘The 
Zoologist’ the name of Thomas Bell must be a “household word”; for 
who has not, many a time and oft, had occasion to consult the pages 
of ‘ British Quadrupeds’ and ‘ British Reptiles,’ or turn to the volume 
on ‘ Stalk-eyed Crustacea’ in order to identify some doubtful species picked 
up in the course of a sea-side ramble? Who, again, has not read with 
pleasure the latest edition of ‘The Natural History of Selborne,’ enriched 
as it is with the critical notes of him who has just passed peacefully away 
in the very house in which Gilbert White lived and died? The announce- 
ment of Mr. Bell's death will, we feel sure, evoke amongst naturalists a 
universal expression of regret; for even those who did not know him 
personally will acknowledge a feeling of indebtedness to one who, through 
his published works, has been the means of imparting so much valuable 
knowledge in different branches of Zoology. 
Mr. Bell died at Selborne on the 18th March, at the advanced age 
of cighty-seven. Since the year 1860 he cannot be said to have taken 
any active part in the proceedings of the scientific world, for his reputation 
will rest upon the excellent work which he accomplished prior to that date. 
Nevertheless in his retirement at Selborne he was by no means idle, for 
he occupied himself in the preparation of a second edition of his ‘ British 
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