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with the aid of an exhaustive catalogue appended to the Address, every 

 specimen can be found without difficulty. 



" In looking over the specimens one is at once struck by the fact that 

 the sources whence Linne obtained his fishes were but few in number, and 

 therefore that his private collection represents only a fraction of the 

 materials upon which his work on the fishes in the ■ Systema Naturae ' is 

 based. His own specimens belonged to three faunae only, and form, in 

 fact, three distinct sets, viz. ; — 



" 1. Scandinavian species. 



" 2. A series of German, chiefly fresh-water, fishes. 



" 3. The fishes collected for him by Dr. Alexander Garden in South 

 Carolina." 



The Fishes of the Firth of Forth and its Tributaries were till quite 

 recently detailed alone in Dr. Parnell's List, published in 1838. In this 

 month's 'Annals of Scottish Natural History,' Mr. Wm. Eagle Clarke has 

 added the species found and recorded since that time. Parnell's List 

 included 112 species — as we now kuow them — and Mr. Eagle Clarke's 

 contribution adds twenty-eight, making a grand total of 140 species to date. 



At a meeting of the Zoological Society on Dec. 19th last, on behalf of 

 Mr. G. S. Mackenzie, F.Z.S., a photograph was exhibited of two remark- 

 ably large tusks of the African Elephant. They each measured, on the 

 outside curve, 10 ft. 4 in. in length, and weighed respectively 235 lbs. and 

 225 lbs. These have since been illustrated in the * Field ' of Jan. 6th last. 



We are glad to see that the number of our local Natural History 

 Societies has been increased by the formation of the " Hampstead Astron- 

 omical and Scientific Society," for the encouragement of a popular interest 

 in the practical study of astronomy, geology, microscopical research, 

 zoology, and other branches of science. During the summer months field 

 meetings will be organised. The Hon. Secretary is Mr. Basil W. Martin, 

 7, Holly Place, Hampstead, N.W. 



A well-known traveller and naturalist has passed away in the person 

 of Mr. E. L. Layard, who died on New Year's Day at his residence at 

 Otterbourne, Budleigh Salterton, Devon. He was a sojourner in many 

 lands, and interested himself in the natural history of all he visited. He 

 will be best remembered in South Africa, where he founded the South 

 African Museum at Cape Town, and collected the material for his well 

 known work on the ' Birds of South Africa,' of which there is now an 



