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carefully removed every single inhabitant before he brought the specimens 
to me, but his account of how he removed them fully bears out the quarrel- 
Some character given by naturalists to Cerapus abditus. He tickled them 
with a shoemaker’s bristle until they grabbed it, and then he dragged them 
out. As far as I can ascertain, this is the first record of the occurrence of 
this Crustacean in Mount’s Bay. My informant says he saw another 
colony close by the first, both just under dead low water at Spring tides.— 
THomas CornisH (Penzance). 
Deatu or Mr. W. C. Hewitson, F.L.S.—It is with regret that we 
have to announce the death of William Chapman Hewitson, the well-known 
author of a standard work on British Birds’ Eggs. Born in 1806, in the 
North of England, he acquired an ardent taste for Natural History, and in 
his early studies was associated with Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-on- 
Tyne, an equally well-known ornithologist, with whom he made a tour in 
Norway, for the purpose of studying the nidification of several birds, such 
as the Redwing and Fieldfare, whose eggs at that date were undescribed, 
although the birds themselves as annual winter visitants to this country 
were well known. In this tour he was very successful, and British 
ornithologists owe him a debt of gratitude for the many additions which he 
was instrumental in making to their knowledge of Oology. He was quite 
as well known as an entomologist, and as the owner of a splendid collection 
of exotic butterflies, which he has bequeathed to the British Museum. In 
conjunction with the late Edward Doubleday, he commenced an illustrated 
folio work on ‘ The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,’ which he supplemented 
by another work in five quarto volumes on ‘Exotic Butterflies.’ The 
illustrations to these works, as well as to many separate articles in various 
periodicals, were all drawn by himself, and are admitted by entomologists 
to be unequalled for accuracy of detail and beauty of colouring. Those who 
had the pleasure of his acquaintance will regret that they can no more 
Share the genial hospitality and pleasant welcome which was always 
accorded to them at his beautiful home in Oatlands Park, where, at the ripe 
age of seventy-two, he died on the 28th May last. 
Dear or Proresson Henry.—Another naturalist has passed away 
in the person of Professor Joseph Henry, LL.D., the Secretary and 
Director of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, who died in 
that city on May 13th last. Professor Henry was born in Albany, in the 
State of New York, December 17th, 1799. He became Professor of 
Mathematics in the Albany Academy in 1826; Professor of Natural 
Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, in 1832; and was 
elected the first Secretary and Director of the Smithsonian Institution in 
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