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M.A., Messrs. W. L. Sclater, B.A., and H. Marshall Ward, M.A. We 
have been favoured by the Local Hon. Secretaries with an excellent pro- 
gramme (in pamphlet form) of the local arrangements, the object of which 
is to supply Members and Associates with information on all subjects 
specially connected with the meeting of the Association, which, judging 
from the list of lectures, exhibitions, field-meetings and garden parties 
already arranged promises to be a very enjoyable one. 
Death of Mr. George Busk, F.R.S,—It is with much regret that we 
haye to announce the death of Mr. George Busk, the well-known surgeon 
and naturalist, which took place in London on August 10th. Asa Fellow 
of the Royal, Linnean, Zoological, and Microscopical Societies, and a 
contributor to their ‘ Transactions’ and ‘ Proceedings,’ Mr. Busk had a 
wide circle of acquaintance. At the College of Surgeons, of which learned 
body he was a Fellow, he had served on the Council and as President, 
besides filling for a time the chair of Hunterian Professor. Zoologists are 
indebted to him for translations of Steenstrup’s work, ‘ On the Alternations 
of Generations,’ and Kélliker’s ‘ Manual of Histology.’ As a specialité he 
worked chiefly at the Polyzoa, of which he published a British Museum 
catalogue, and (in 1884) an important monograph of the Polyzoa collected 
during the voyage of the ‘ Challenger.’ As a paleontologist and anthro- 
pologist he was also very favourably known, having contributed several 
useful memoirs to the ‘ Proceedings’ of Societies dealing with these subjects. 
His death, at the age of seventy-eight, will be deplored by a large circle of 
friends to whom his amiability and readiness at all times to impart informa- 
tion had deservedly endeared him. 
Collecting in Marocco.—We hear that M. Henri Vaucher has taken 
up his quarters at Tangiers for the purpose of making zoological collections. 
Any one who may desire to secure specimens of the mammals, birds, 
reptiles, insects, or shells of Marocco will have now a good opportunity, and 
are invited to communicate with him direct. The address, M. Henri 
Vaucher, Tangiers, Marocco, will suffice. 
MAMMALIA. 
Albino Badgers.—It may interest some of your readers to know that 
I received on September 1st, 1885, two half-grown albinos of the Common 
Badger alive, from East Cornwall, where they had been dug out with their 
dam from an earth in a large wood on the banks of the Tamar, a few days 
before the above date. These beasts, which are still alive and well here, 
cannot be called white; their general colour is of a very pale sandy, the 
face-stripes of a somewhat darker shade than the other parts, and the eyes 
pink, or red-currant coloured. I have seen albinos of many of our 
