MEMOIR OF THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN. IDS 



Lump-fish, Cyclopterus lumpus, of very large size. It is remarkable that 

 during the whole of my experience I have never (judging by colour) seen a 

 a male or red Lump-fish. The female or blue Lump-fish occurs frequently. 

 I received a second female taken in the mackerel drift-nets, and on the 

 5th April my boatman caught another in a very singular manuer. He 

 was fishing at night in the Bay, with his brother, when they observed 

 something phosphorescent making its way towards their boat on the surface 

 of the water. As it passed them my man struck it with the gaff and 

 secured it. It turned out to be a blue Lump-fish of large size and shotten. — 

 Thomas Cornish (Penzancej. 



The Tokpedo on the Yorkshire Coast. — A specimen of the Tor- 

 pedo, T. hebetans, the first that has occurred on the shores of this county, 

 so far as I have been able to ascertain, was captured while among the 

 breakers on the beach at Easington, on the 14th April, and kindly sent to 

 me for identification. In leugth it measured two feet five inches, and was 

 one foot five inches from pectoral to pectoral at its greatest width. The 

 fish was in a dying condition when caught, and no shock was felt by its 

 captors. — W. Eagle Clarke (Leeds). 



MEMOIR OF THE LATE CHARLES DARWIN, LL.D., F.R.S. 



The name of Charles Darwin has so long been a " household 

 word " that the news of his decease, which took place on April 19th, 

 will be received with profound regret by the entire civilized world. 

 At the ripe age of seventy-three, in the arms of those nearest and 

 dearest to him, he passed calmly and peacefully away, full of 

 honours, and leaving behind him an illustrious and imperishable 

 name. 



The studies and researches which contributed to render 

 his name so famous appear to have been commenced at an 

 early period of his life, when, meditating the pursuit of medicine 

 as a profession, he was sent to Edinburgh, then at the height of 

 its reputation as a medical school, and in the University of which 

 city his grandfather, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, had taken his degrees. 

 After two years of study there he proceeded to Cambridge, 

 where in due course, at Christ College, he graduated B.A. 

 and M.A. Finding about this time that his private means were 

 sufficient to render him independent of a profession, he abandoned 

 the idea of adopting the practice of medicine, and devoted himself, 

 from the love of it, to the study of Biology. 



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