3814 Obituary. 



Glassy Sea-cucumber, Thyronidium pellucidum, (C. hyalina). Dis- 

 covered in Zetland by Prof. Fleming. 



T. Drummondii, (C. communis). Pretty common. 



Order VI. — Vermigrada. 



Family 1 . — Sipunculidce. 



Sipunculus Strombi, (S. Bernhardus). Occurs in 10 — 20 fathoms, 

 in shells of Turritella terebra &c. 



Family 2. — Priapulida. 



Tailed Priapulus, Priapulus caudatus. Discovered in Zetland by 

 Prof. Fleming. 



The above list of forty species comprises all as yet recorded as be- 

 ing obtained in our locality, though doubtless active searching, and 

 more frequent dredging, would reveal many novelties, and enable us 

 to compile a more copious catalogue. This we trust to see accom- 

 plished ere long. The technical terms here employed are in accord- 

 ance with Dr. Gray's ' British Museum Catalogue,' the synonymes of 

 Forbes's ' British Star-fishes' being added for the sake of convenience. 



Wm. Balfour Baikie. 



Haslar Hospital, Gosport, 

 January 18, 1853. 



Notice of the Decease of the Rev. James Smith of Monquhitter. — Many^of the 

 readers of the ' Zoologist ' will, doubtless, regret to hear of the death of the Rev. 

 James Smith, A.M., Minister of the parish of Monquhitter, Aberdeenshire. He died 

 at Banff, N. B., on the 29th of January, in the fifty- third year of his age. The re- 

 spected and greatly lamented deceased was born in the parish of Drumblade, and was 

 educated at King's College, Aberdeen. He was Rector of the Banff Academy for 

 nearly twenty years, and was universally beloved and esteemed on account of his 

 genius and learning, his amiable dispositions, and active benevolence. A profound 

 scholar and theologian, he was at the same time an enthusiastic admirer of the beau- 

 ties of nature, and a zealous and successful student of many departments of natural 

 history. Ornithology was his favourite study, and he has contributed many valuable 

 papers on this subject. But such was his modesty and diffidence, that he has left ma- 

 nuscripts of great value and interest on literary and scientific subjects still unpublished. 

 Hir loss is irreparable, but it may be consolatory to his sorrowing friends to know that 

 they have the warmest sympathy of the Church of which he was a distinguished 

 ornament, as well as of some of the most eminent men of the present day, who'ad- 

 mired and respected his great and varied talents and acquirements. Doubtless had 



