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Soio to make a cheap and handy chloroform hottle. — Get a " sprinkler cork,' 

 such as is used for distributing scent — pick out one with a close grained cork ; then 

 get a small phial into the mouth of which the sprinkler will fit tightly, if you can 

 procure one of the strong blown glass sort, so dear to Coleopterists, so much the 

 better, if. not, an ordinary moulded phial will answer very well, if it is protected 

 from breakage by a turn or two of washleather or diagonally cut linen, glued or. 

 pasted evenly round the angles of the shoulder and bottom. Having charged the 

 bottle with the anaesthetic and forced in the sprinkler, it is ready for use, which is 

 carried out by unscrewing the top and allowing little or much of the fluid to run 

 out as required and desired. With a very little practice the outflow can be regu- 

 lated from a small fraction of a drop to a considerable quantity. — H. G-. Knaggs, 

 Camden Eoad, N.W. : August 9th, 1893. 



The Sev. Leonard BJomefield (formerly JenynsJ, M.A., F.L.S., S^c, died at 

 Bath on September 1st, in his 94th year. He has been styled the " Father " of the 

 Linnean Society, which he joined in 1822 ; the same title might have been conferred 

 on him as regards the Zoological Society (182fi), and the Entomological (1833), of 

 both of which he was an original Member. Indeed, it is doubtful if there be any 

 living Naturalist who has reached so patriarchal an age. His father was the Rev. 

 Gr. L. Jenyns, a Canon of Ely, and his son Leonard was born in London on May 

 25th, 1800. His later education was obtained at Eton, and he passed thence to St» 

 John's College, Cambridge. He was ordained at the age of 23 to the Curacy of 

 Swaffham Bulbeck, in Cambridgeshire, and subsequently became vicar of the 

 parish for 30 years. Thence he removed to the Isle of Wight, afterwards to Bath, 

 where he died. He abandoned the name of Jenyns many years ago, but it is under 

 that name that he was best known as a ISTaturalist. He retained his faculties to the 

 last, and even his handwriting was as firm and clear as ever. Jenyns (Blomefield) 

 was essentially a Field Naturalist, and all his best work was done before he attained 

 the age of 40 ; undoubtedly the chief of his productions was the " Manual of 

 Biitish Vertebrate Animals," published at Cambridge, in 1836. We leave to general 

 Zoologists the duty of writing an extended memoir of him. As an Entomologist 

 he published two papers which have attracted attention. The first was : " On three 

 undescribed species of Cimex, allied to the Bed-bug" (Annals of Nat. Hist., 1839), 

 and the other on a Dipterous larva discharged in large numbers from the human 

 intestines (Trans. Ent. Soc. Lend., 1839). The first of these related to the species 

 of Cimex attached respectively to pigeons, swallows, and bats, and his attention 

 was, no doubt, drawn to them during his investigations of the British Vertebrates. 

 His powers of observation were so keen as to cause one to regret that he published 

 so little latterly. He founded the Bath Natural History Field Club in 1855, and 

 took a warm interest in the Bath Literary and Scientific Institution, to which he 

 presented his library and herbarium about the year 1869. His earlier collections 

 wei'e given to the Cambridge Philosophical Society. In 1887 he published (privately) : 

 " Chapters in my Life " (second edition in 1889), which are amusing and instruc- 

 tive reading, on account of the reminiscences of the early days of contemporary 

 Naturalists, and in which we learn that the post of Naturalist to the " Beagle," 

 accepted by Darwin, was offered to the subject of this notice, but declined. 



