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Turner, whose great -work on the Fuci is a lasting memorial of his skill and know^ 

 ledge. He died at a very advanced age. 



The twenty-fourth annual report of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society 

 contains several good contributions to Natural Science, especially a paper on the 

 cetacea of the Cornish Coast by Mr. Couch, so well known as an Icthyologist, but 

 from a short paper by the same Naturalist on the wheat midge we judge that this 

 destructive insect is much less known and understood than with us. 



Mr. T. Eymer Jones, F.R.S., (fee., has produced a volume entitled the Aquarian 



Naturalist : a manual for the sea-side. It is very highly spoken of as excelling- 



other works of its class, several of which have no small merit, and being illustrate?! 



by Tuffen West, and published by Van Voorst, we may be assured that it appears 



before the public with every advantage. 



W. H. 



CANADIAN NATURAL HISTORY. 



The following remarks have been communicated to the Editor, from the pen of 

 one well qualified from his knowledge of the subjects to which he refers to speak 

 with authority, and the suggestions he throws out cannot fail to be recognized as 

 meriting the attention of those to whom they are addressed. We commend them 

 alike to the consideration of the officers of the Geological Survey, and to the Mem- 

 bers of the Canadian Institute who interest themselves in the branches of native 

 science here referred to : — 



Why is there not a Zoologist and Botanist attached to the Canadian Geological 

 Survey ? is a question that has often occurred to me. And it has recurred with 

 greater force in reading in the May number of the Annals of Natural History, the 

 critique on the "General Report upon the Zoology of the several Pacific Railway 

 Routes. Part 1st. Mammalia." 



The critic gives just praise to the American Government, for the Zoological 

 Appendices to the Reports of the various Surveys and Explorations ordered by the 

 Government of the United States, and especially to the work under notice, which 

 he says, " Promises to bring still greater additions to our knowledge of North 

 American Zoology than any of the previous publications." 



It appears that the specimens collected by the various expeditions for surveying 

 the routes towards the Pacific were deposited in the Smithsonian Institution, 

 under the care of its officers, that Professor Baird has undertaken and executed 

 the first volume on Mammalia, that Mr. Capin is to take the Birds, and gentle- 

 men learned in the other classes, those to which they have paid the most attention. 



So much for the United States ; but what has been done by our Canadian Geolo- 

 gical Survey for the advancement of the Zoology and Botany of the Province ? Abso- 

 lutely nothing ; though their parties have traversed from the heights of Gaspe to 

 far beyond the Northern limits of Lake Huron. 



This year they have published a report of their progress for four years, accom- 

 panied by a valuable atlas of Charts, which show with what an amount of zeal and 



