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mouth), Deal Fish (from T. J. Mann, Oct. 1879), large Opah, 

 Wolf Fish, Long Eough Dab (A.Patterson), " double Turbot " 

 (A. P.), and head of Sword Fish. In spirits, following Mr. 

 Southwell's enumeration, are Cottus grcenlandicus and C. scorpius 

 (A. Patterson), from Yarmouth, and the rare Rose Perch * 

 (Scorp&na dactyloptera) ; while, since Mr. Southwell's account 

 was written, the Earl of Orford has presented a Florida Tarpon* 

 or Silver King, which weighed 140 lbs., with the rod and line with 

 which he caught it. 



The Picture Gallery does not contain much of interest to 

 naturalists, and the Hall, devoted to Geology, hardly calls for 

 notice in the pages of ' The Zoologist.' But one can scarcely 

 pass, without reflecting on ages gone by, one enormous fossil 

 tusk, nearly 10 ft. long, from Cromer, supposed to have belonged 

 to a Ma iv moth Elephant 16 or 17 ft. high, and an immense 

 humerus, which for size might have belonged to the same animal. 



The cabinets of Insects, rearranged by Mr. C. G. Barrett, 

 with additions by Lord Walsingham, are very good. The 

 Hymenopterous Insects are all the gift of Mr. Bridgman. The 

 Lombe-Taylor Collection of Shells was noted in its day. Finally 

 there is the giant Galapagos Island Tortoise, presented to the 

 Museum alive in 1843, when it was no rarity ; and a well- arranged 

 Herbarium, with supplementary collections formed by Sir J. E. 

 Smith and Sir James Paget. 



THE EABBIT-PLAGUE IN AUSTKALIA. 



Nothing lately has been heard of the Rabbit-plague in 

 Australia, and, to judge by the enquiries which continue to reach 

 us, it appears that there are many who would be glad to learn 

 how this matter now stands. 



The attention of our readers has been already directed to the 

 subject on several previous occasions. 



In 'The Zoologist' for 1888 (pp. 321-328) we gave an 

 account of the original introduction of the Rabbit, in 1860, in 

 the western district of Victoria, for the purpose of sport, and its 

 subsequent spread to other parts of the country, resulting in an 

 enormous increase of numbers during the succeeding twenty 



* See Zool. p. 79. 



