: 260 Miscellanéous. 
3. On the Courting Attitudes of the Fiddler-crab, Gelasimus 
annulipes. 
4. On the Habits of some Indian Species of Ocypode Crabs. 
5. Some Protective Disguises among Higher Crustacea. 
6. On the Geographical Distribution of Varuna lterata, 
Plagusia squamosa, and Carcinus menas. 
V. Some Instances of Protective and Warning Coloration. 
VI. On the Phosphorescence of certain Marine Invertebrates. 
VII. Notes on some Peculiarities of Food. 
VIII. Stray Notes on Sauropsida (hatching of Green Turtles; a 
flightless race of Crow-pheasant ; a colony of breeding 
Terns attacked by Crabs; &c.). 
MISCELLANEOUS. 
Marine Biological Association of the West of Scotland. (Marine 
Station, Keppel Pier, Millport.) 
Tue General Committee of this Association are in a position to offer 
the following Prizes, to be called the ‘ Frep. P. Puttar Memoriat 
Prizzs,” offered by Sir Jonn Murray, the Honorary President of 
the Association, in memory of the late Frep. P. Puttar, who was 
associated with him in the Bathymetrical Survey of the Scottish 
Freshwater Lochs, who took much interest in the Millport Marine 
Station, and who lost his life in the unfortunate ice accident on 
Airthrey Loch, Bridge of Allan, on the 15th February, 1901:— 
(1) a Prize of £50 for a Paper on ‘The Seasonal Distribution and 
Development of Pelagic Algz in the Waters of the Clyde Sea Area” ; 
(2) a Prize of £50 for a Paper on ‘The Reproduction, Develop- 
ment, and Distribution in the Clyde Sea Area of the Genera Nycti- 
phanes and Boreophausia”; (3) a Prize of £50 for a Paper on 
“The Formation and Distribution of Glauconite in the Deposits of 
the Clyde Sea Area and the adjacent Seas of Scotland.” These 
Prizes are open to investigators from any part of the world who 
conduct observations in the several subjects at the Millport Marine 
Station, and who produce, at any time before Ist January, 1905, 
papers which, in the opinion of a Committee of three scientific 
men, to be nominated by the Committee of the Association and 
by Sir John Murray, shall be deemed of sufficient value to merit 
publication. 
Those proposing to work for any one of these Prizes should make 
known their intention to the Secretary of the Association, in order 
that the necessary arrangements may be made. 
Joun A. Topp, Hon. Sec. 
190 West George Street, Glasgow, 
July 1901. 
