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Threshers, Squalus vidpes, and on my visiting the beach, after leaving his 

 house, I saw an exceedingly fine Blue Shark, S. glaucus, which had been 

 brought iu during the night, moored to the quay, Mr. Clogg showed 

 me the original water-colour drawing of the immense Basking Shark, 

 S. viaximuK, 31 ft. 8 in. long, that was taken in Cornwall many years since, 

 and from which the figure in the late Mr. Couch's work on British Fishes 

 was copied. I do not remember Sharks ever having been more plentiful on 

 our coasts than during the past autumn. — John Gatcombe (Stonehouse). 



Ray's Bream in Cornwall.— Mr. F. W. Millett, of Marazion, has 

 handed me a very fine specimen of Ray's Bream, Brama Rayii, which was 

 taken by him, on the 29th November last, on the beach between Penzance 

 and Marazion. As in the case of all previous specimens obtained, this 

 fish was found dead and washing on the beach at the edge of the waves. — 

 Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



CRUSTxICEA. 



Dwarf Swimming Crab at Penzance.— On January 15th T obtained 

 a second specimen of the Dwarf Swimming Crab, Portunus priscillus, and, 

 singularly enough, I found it where I found my first— on a doorstep in the 

 middle of Penzance. I have no doubt that it was rejected from his basket 

 by a dealer in sprats caught in St. Ives Bay. who had just passed on. If 

 80, it shows that the crab must have been swimming with the sprats when 

 they were taken in a seine-net. It is not by any means a common crab in 

 the seas of West Cornwall. After watching for it for twenty-five years 

 I have only obtained two specimens which I have identified, and seen one 

 living crab, which I beheve to have been P.pusillus, in a rock-pool of salt 

 water at Prussia Cove, but, as I failed to capture it, my identification is not 

 complete. — Thomas Cornish (Penzance). 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE PROFESSOR SCHLEGEL. 



On January 17tb, at the age of 79, died Professor Hermann 

 Schlegel, for five and twenty years Director of the Eoyal Museum 

 at Leiden, and for nearly fifty years one of the most indefatigable 

 zoologists the world has ever seen— a man whose name is known 

 not only throughout Europe, but in every part of the globe 

 where the literature of zoology is studied or read. 



It would indeed be difficult to point to any one who, as a 

 Professor, has done more for students than he has done, for his 

 teachings have not been imparted merely to those in his own 



