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following year, and attended several of our meetings ; but never 

 contributed to our transactions. In 1840 he accepted the 

 small living of Swineshead, near Bostoji, Lincolnshire, from 

 which he was transferred in 1843 to the Vicarage of Kendal, 

 on presentation by his college. His character which, was 

 marked by open heartedness and generosity to a great degree, 

 soon gained him the good will of his parishoners, and he 

 seemed to know no stronger bond of brotherhood than the 

 opportunity of rendering a service, wherever it was in his 

 power to do so. Possessing an enlarged and liberalmind of 

 catholic sympathies, with a warm attachment to his church, 

 he never forgot what was due to others, who conscientiously 

 differed from him on matters of ecclesiastical discipline and 

 doctrine, and by so doing he gained the respect and support 

 of all denominations. In the restoration of the fine old church, 

 he has raised to himself an enduring monument, and this was 

 entirely effected by his untiring zeal. For a considerable time 

 his health had been very precarious, and after much suffering, 

 he died on the 15th of May last, in the 52nd year of his age, 

 leaving a widow and two daughters to lament his early death. 



Miscellanea Zoologica. By R. C. Embleton, Secretary. 

 On the habits of the Cyprwa Europcea, or Common Cowry. 



Although few shells are more plentiful in a dead state along 

 our sandy shores than the common " Jenny Grroat," its oc- 

 cun-ence alive is, as far as my own observations go, of very 

 rare occurrence ; for during a residence of twenty-six years, 

 I have never, until the last autumn, been successful in ob- 

 taining it. After a pretty sharp gale from the north-east, 

 large quantities of the larger sea weeds w^ere thrown on shore, 

 and at the root of one, I found five beautiful living specimens 

 of this shell. I immediately transferred them to a small 

 aquarium, a common fish bowl ; where they continued to live, 

 and apparently to thrive, for three months ; and had the water 

 been changed, and attended to as usual, I have little doubt 

 but that they would still have been in existence ; but absence 

 from home, for two or three weeks, had been enough for their 

 destruction. Amongst the five specimens, two were marked 

 with the three black spots on the shell, which my friend, Mr. 

 Alder, had never seen here, and which coincides with the 

 observations, of the deeply lamented Edward Forbes, that 

 as you journey northwards, these markings become almost 

 extinct. The animals shewed several variations in their 

 colouring. In two specimens, the mantle lobes were yellow, 

 edged with orange, and marked with broad dusky bands ; 



