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fungus, very destructive in certain rivers and streams ; and 5 on the effects 
of immersion of fish in distilled water, which proved fatal to about 30 
minnows and sticklebacks. In none of these cases could it be said that any 
appreciable suffering was inflicted. In 7 cases, in which salts of ammonia 
were hypodermically injected, 2 are returned as suffering pain, but of a 
very trifling character. Of 76 specimens under certificates, 47 required a 
simple operation, but this being done under anesthesia was unfelt, and the 
after effects, though in many of the cases resulting in partial paralysis, are 
reported as having been unattended with actual pain in any case. The 
remaining 29 were by simple inoculation, and none were attended with pain. 
The amount of direct or indirect actual suffering, as the result of physio- 
logical and therapeutical experiments performed in England and Scotland 
under the Act in the year 1884, was wholly insignificant. 
The Marine Biological Station.—That a site has been obtained from 
Government for a Marine Laboratory, as stated in the last number of ‘The 
Zoologist’ (p. 227), is something gained, though it may be questioned 
whether the Citadel Hill, Plymouth, is a fit place for it—where the “sea- 
water will have to be driven up by a pumping apparatus.” It is to be 
regretted that we have nothing on our own coasts to compare with that great 
work at Concarneau (Britanny)—no pumping of sea-water required there, 
the tanks being filled and refilled by the tide. Having in ‘ The Zoologist’ 
for 1874, p. 3947, given a slight description of these far-famed tanks, I need 
only say, for the information of those interested in the subject, that they 
cover a space of a thousand square yards, partly hewn out of the rock; all 
this, as I was informed, the work of an enterprising individual, unaided by 
the Government till of late years. — Hunry Hapriep (Highcliff, Ventnor, 
«Isle of Wight). 
MAMMALIA. 
Dormouse in Cumberland.— Referring to Mr. Rope’s article on the 
distribution of this little animal in England, I may point out that the 
earliest record of its occurrence in the Ullswater district, is that of Dr. 
Heysham, since borne out by the observations of Mr. W. Hodgson, A.L.S. 
In August, 1884, Mr. Hodgson wrote to me that he had frequently met 
with the Dormouse in Ullswater, its most recent appearance having been 
noted at Watermillock. With regard to the south-west of Cumberland, 
there is the evidence of Mr. T. N. Postlethwaite. I have two notes of its 
- occurrence in North Cumberland, with regard to which further evidence 
could be adduced if required —H. A. Macruerson (Carlisle). 
Dormouse in Northamptonshire.— With reference to the paper by 
Mr. G. T. Rope in the June number of ‘ The Zoologist,’ on the range of 
the Dormouse, Muscardinus avellanarius, in England and Wales, I beg to 
inform your readers that this little animal was formerly common enough 
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