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the Proceedings of the Zoological Society, 1865, p. 736; and 
rubabaincady. moorit, described by Dr. A. Giinther in ‘ Catalogue of 
Fishes,’ vol. . 53. He was for many years a Corresponding 
ember of - Zoological Society, and quite recently was elected an 
Associate of the Linnean Society. 
I cannot do better than close this notice by an extract from a 
short reminiscence of himself that appeared in a Liverpool paper 
about two years ago, which gives us not only a good insight into his 
character, but also shows that when he did write he could do so 
with a good deal of literary skill and charming felicity of expression. 
‘It will thus be seen that my life has been, as I said at the outset, 
a quiet and uneventful but busy one. [t has also been a happy one. 
I have been happy in my work, lessened only by my inability to 
accomplish more ; happy in my business associates, and with friends 
of kindred tastes ; very happy when seals or whales have ventured 
sufficiently near to Liverpool to allow of my making their personal 
acquaintance, as I have done with some half score of them. 
Happier still when once ona time I was called from my mid-day 
chop to inspect a collection of Dodo bones, which I bagged for the 
museum before I finished that chop, and sorted and matched and 
named before I supped at two in the morning. Happiest of all 
when Sir J. Pope Hennessy, in March 1879, exhibited to me and a 
select circle of friends at the museum a living baby hippopotamus 
from Liberia, the first of its kind—living or dead—ever brought to 
ngs ope, and which sat for his photograph with all gravity (see the 
“‘ Graphic” of that year). I am undecided in my mind, however, 
whether that happiness was not equalled, or even excelled, in June 
1876, on supping at Eberle’s Hotel with Pongo, the gorilla, and his 
friends and importers, eminent German men of science from the 
Gaboon on their way to Berlin, and who had previously given me 
an interview with him as recorded in the “Times,” and who were 
good enough to bring him to the museum to see his splendid stuffed 
relation, then recently presented to us by Mr. Henry Duckworth, of 
this city. That was a day !’—E. Howartu. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
We have rk ate from the author (Rev. W. H. Painter) a ‘carefully compiled 
oO e 
account y of Biddulph and the Neighbou uring Parts of North 
Staffordshire.’ is a reprint from the ‘ Midlan ralist,’ and deals 
with three districts: the Valley of Biddulph, the Valley of the Trent, and the 
Rudyerd nu nts mentioned is ‘on and a curious and 
interesting feature of the ¥ is a list of several co nm plants which the 
author Rd not yet . in this ee of the county, wees which he believes to have 
be extinct. Un this category come such common plants as Zrophila 
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aie “Silene baa, Potentilla anserina, Epilobium palustre, etc. 
Naturalist, 
