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with in those days in the undrained marshy tracts throughout 

 the country, and the editor of the fourth edition of Yarrell 

 informs us (vol. ii. p. 252) — though on what grounds is not 

 evident — that the Cornish Chough " apparently frequented a 

 good many inland localities in former times." It would be 

 interesting to know what evidence there is as to the inland 

 distribution of this species in England. 



In reply to Professor Newton's fifth position (p. 393), no more 

 need be said until his view is established on other grounds; 

 meanwhile we must be content to regard the epithet "russet- 

 pated " as one of those descriptive touches which we find again 

 in the "long-legged spinner," the "red-hipped humble bee," and 

 the " shard-borne beetle." 



MEMOIR of the REV. LEONARD BLOMEFIELD, M.A., F.L.S. 



A venerable link with a past generation of naturalists is 

 severed by the death of the Rev. Leonard Blomefield, better 

 known as Leonard Jenyns, who died at Bath on the 1st September 

 last, at the advanced age of ninety-three. A contemporary and 

 friend of Yarrell, Selby, Dean Buckland, Dr. Gray, Bell, Darwin, 

 Westwood, and other well-known zoologists, a friend also of the 

 Professors of Botany, Daubeny and Henslow (for he was also a 

 botanist of some ability), he lived to see all these pass away, and 

 to become acquainted one by one with the new generation of 

 zoologists springing up around him, many of whom were not born 

 when he wrote and published his ' Manual of British Vertebrate 

 Animals' in 1836. He used to say that the earliest occurrence 

 in his life which he could recollect was the funeral of Lord 

 Nelson, which took place in January, 1806, when he was between 

 five and six years old. He remembered coloured pictures of the 

 funeral procession being sold in the streets, and some of them 

 being brought up to the nursery for the edification of the children 

 of whom he was one. 



His father was the Rev. George Jenyns, who on the decease of 

 a second cousin, Soame Jenyns, came into possession of some 

 property in Cambridgeshire known as Bottisham Hall. It was 

 here that his early life was spent; although he was born in 

 London, in Pa.ll Mall, at the house of his maternal grandfather, 



