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see it, and one of the men and his wife saw it the other night, and toot it down, but 

 in less than half an hour it was there again ; other persons have also seen it; and 

 whenever I sugar the tree it is almost sure to be there. Strange as this may seera, I 

 cannot find any other fact about it, although I have paid a deal of attention to the 

 subject. I never find any insects on the tree if the toad is there. Has any other 

 person met with a similar occurrence? — William Winter; Aldeby, near Beccles, 

 Avgust 22, 1 860. 



[The foot of toads waiting at the foot of a sugared tree for the moths that may 

 happen to fall ofi" in a fit of intoxication has long been familiar to me; but I do not 

 recollect a previous record of a toad climbing a tree with this object. The conjecture 

 that the toads are attracted by the saccharine droppings has been hazarded, but is 

 quite untenable ; so is also the idea that Cossus ligniperda frequents the sugared 

 willows for the sake of the sweets: beginners are very often led into this second 

 mistake by seeing the female goat moths clinging to the bark, and depositing their 

 eggs: if these young gentlemen would examine the mouth fof the goat moth they 

 would find no honey-sucking apparatus; and in her tubular ovipositor, thrust deep 

 into the crevices of the bark, they would discover the real object of her visits to the 

 willow-bark. — Edward Newman.'] 



Capture of a Sturgeon in Fresh Water.— It having been rumoured for some time 

 past that a large fish was daily to b.e seen in the river at Hemingford-Grey, Hunting- 

 donshire, a party of the lovers of aquatic sport set out in right good earnest to capture 

 the talked-of monster, or for ever set at rest the story of the large fish in the pits of 

 Hemingford Mills. The expedition succeeded, and a large sturgeon {Acipenser sturio) 

 was taken, after some trouble and manoeuvring in landing, on the 2Tst of August, 

 1860. I annex its exact dimensions, &c.: — length, 7 feet ; in girth, 3 feet; weight, 

 112 tbs. The fish was particularly rich in colouring, and presented a very fresh 

 appearance.— <S. P. Saville ; Jesus Terrace, Cambridge. 



The Mollusca of the Firth of Clyde. By the Rer. Alfred Merle 

 Norman, M.A. 



(Continued from p. 5887.) 



(I much regret that so long a time has elapsed since the publica- 

 tion of the preceding portions of the paper. In removing from 

 Leicestershire to my present residence some of the MSS. were mis- 

 laid, and have only recently been foimd. 



Since the former parts were printed the results obtained by the 

 Dredging Committee of Lamlash Bay, consisting of Dr. Greville, 

 Rev. C. P. Miles and others, hare been published in the * Report of 

 the British Association for the Advancement of Science for 1856.' 



