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Ekrata. — The following errata occur in Mr. Cocks' notes from Spitz- 

 bergen : — p. 323, line 11, for ten read one; p. 330, line 13, dele ; after 

 'boat,' and next line/or shot read shoot; p. 331, nine lines from foot, for 

 He read We ; p. 379, two lines above note,/or way to the read way by the; 

 p. 386, line 13, for The sun set straight read The sun set to-night ; p. 417 

 seven lines from bottom, for Scynnus read Scymnus. 



Natterjack at Aldebdrgh. — I do not know whether the Natter- 

 jack, Bufo calamita, is usually partial to the coast; but I found examples 

 in August last, in warm sunshine, quite close to the beach at Aldeburgh. — 

 H. A. Macpherson (Oxford). 



Chelifer Degeerii, C. Koch, a Species new to Britain. — Whilst 

 collecting shells and mineralogical specimens on the promontory at North 

 Berwick, Scotland, ou September 13th, I procured three specimens of the 

 above-named Pseudoscorpion. Their proximity to the sea was such that at 

 high tide the spray was constantly thrown upon the cracked igneous rock 

 which sheltered them, and which in stormy weather, and during neap and 

 spring tides, is submerged ; though I doubt not the Chelifers and many 

 other minute terrestrial forms located in the innumerable cracks and 

 crevices of these rocks will be dry, owing to the difficulty of displacement 

 of air by water from such narrow fissures as they lodge in. Associated 

 with them in the loose earth that sparingly filled the crevices were Podurm 

 and larval Onisci. I kept the Chelifers alive for above a week. Whilst 

 seeking food they ran backwards and forwards with equal celerity, carrying 

 the maxillary palpi or chelae (hence the name) elevated about one-third 

 above the head ; the dactylopodite and propodite held apart. They seized 

 almost everything they came near, especially each other's chelae. Perhaps 

 the most interesting feature noticed was the quick and indiscriminate use 

 of both nipping organs in conveying food to the mouth. The position, 

 elevation, sensitiveness, of the chelae betokened a character homologous to 

 antennae. On submitting the specimens to the Rev. O. P. Cambridge, who 

 is collecting material for a monograph on British specimens of this group, — 

 and in which will be given figures and descriptions of this new addition to 

 our fauna, — I learned they were Chelifer Degeerii, C. Koch. — Henrv. 

 Crowther (Beeston Hill, Leeds). 



Death of Professor Reinhardt. — We regret to have to announce 

 the death, at the age of sixty-six years, of Prof. Reinhardt, Inspector of the 

 Zoological Museum of the University of Copenhagen. His name is of 

 course well known to English ornithologists through his papers in ' The 

 Ibis' and the 'Proceedings of the Zoological Society,' but his most im- 

 portant contributions to Zoology are to be found in the scientific periodicals 

 of Copenhagen. 



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