280 THE ZOOLOGIST. 



From Cambridge we have received the Thirty-fifth Annual Report of 

 the Museums and Lecture Rooms Syndicate. Zoological science is not 

 neglected at Cambridge, and the additions to the collections there seem 

 most important and somewhat prodigious. We have already referred to 

 Mr. Gardiner's expedition to the Maldive and Laccadive Archipelagoes. 

 The collections made by tlie Skeat expedition to the Malay Peninsula are 

 still being worked out by specialists. Amongst other acquisitions, we read 

 that the collection of specimens dredged by the Royal Indian Survey Ship 

 • Investigator,' many of them belonging to the deep-sea fauna, is a most 

 valuable addition, for which the special thanks of the Museum are due to 

 the Indian Museum at Calcutta. Dr. Haddon's collection of Actiniariais a 

 gift the value of which is largely increased by the fact that much of his 

 published work refers to this group of animals. Mr. Budgett's second visit 

 to the Gambia was most successful. He returned to Cambridge in the 

 autumn with some remarkable Teleostean embryos, a complete set of Pro- 

 topterus embryos, and a larva of Polypterus, all of which are obtained for 

 the first time. 



It is with great sorrow that the Superintendent records the death of 

 F. P. Bedford, B.A., scholar of King's College, on Oct. 7th, 1900. He had 

 recently returned from a zoological expedition to Singapore, and some of 

 his collections have been presented to the Museum. A cabinet for the 

 reception of the skins of birds has been given to the Museum by Mrs. Bed- 

 ford, in memory of her son's interest in zoology. 



