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of the famous " kitchen middens " in the Holderness district of East York- 

 shire. On his visits to the North Coast of Africa he made valuable collec- 

 tions of the birds and insects of that region. In this department of his 

 recreations his artistic abilities were of great service, for he could depict 

 natural history objects in colours with wonderful fidelity. His incursions 

 into the realm of photography were limited to the use of a hand camera, 

 with which he was fairly successful. 'Thoughts on Ornithology' and 

 ' Nature Cared for and Uncared for ' were subjects upon which he wrote 

 with knowledge. He was a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, a 

 Fellow of the Linnean Society, a Fellow of the Zoological Society, and a 

 member of the British Ornithological Union. 



The greatest of animal painters has passed away. Mile. Rosa Bonheur 

 died at Fontainebleau on May 26th. Although the deceased artist did not 

 rank as a zoologist, still the painter of the " Horse Fair " studied and knew 

 her subjects, and in art reflected nature beyond the capacity, as a rule, of 

 those who paint or those who observe. 



At the meeting of the Royal Microscopical Society on May 7th, the 

 Fellows, assisted by many friends of the Quekett Microscopical Club, gave 

 an exhibition of Pond-life. The exhibition was highly successful, the many 

 beautiful objects exciting much admiration. Among them may be men- 

 tioned Lophopus crystallinas ; Daphnia pulex (this entomostracan was 

 stained with a solution of fuchsin, which a depraved taste had induced it to 

 imbibe, apparently without harm, but which caused its internal economy to 

 be very conspicuous) ; Hydatina senta was exhibited ; and specimens of 

 Melicerta ringens, a tube-dwelling rotifer which is its own brickmaker and 

 bricklayer. Hydra viridis was on view, showing ovary and testes, the ovary 

 in the amoeboid stage. From Dundee came Bursaria t., Conochiliis, 

 Mastigocerca bicarinata, Notommata collaris of Ehrenberg, Stephanoceros , 

 &c. There were also exhibited Rivularia and Draparnaldia, a highly 

 attractive exhibition of hundreds of brilliantly illuminated rotifers of 

 various species, careering in all directions on a dark background, and 

 S. serrulatus, an entomostracan hitherto unrecorded in Britain ; the 

 water-mite (Hydryphantes dispar), another mite (Limnesia hystrionica), 

 and Notops brachionus, which is one of the most beautiful of the free- 

 swimming rotifers. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society of April 20th the Rev. 0. 

 Pickard-Cambridge communicated a new list of British and Irish spiders. 

 After reviewing the existing literature on the subject, and the materials 



