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CRUSTACEA. 



Arctus ursus (better known as Scyllarus arctus) at Guernsey. — A 

 specimen of this rare and curious crustacean, a native of the Mediter- 

 ranean, was caught off Guernsey, in a pot baited for the "Chancre" 

 or Edible Crab, measuring five inches in length, and of a dark red- 

 brown colour. Three or four specimens are usually found during the 

 summer round the island of Guernsey. — F. S. Weight (Guille-Alles 

 Library, Guernsey). 



[In earlier volumes of 'The Zoologist' there are many records of 

 this species being found in English waters, especially in the neighbour- 

 hood of Cornwall and Plymouth. It has also been figured in these 

 pages (1879, p. 473), where Mr. Thomas Cornish gave an interesting 

 communication respecting its British records. 



It may be well to draw attention to an error in Parker and Has- 

 well's ' Text-Book of Zoology,' vol. i. p. 539, where a figure is stated 

 to represent this species, but is really that of Themis orientalis. — Ed.] 



OBITUARY. 



Chaeles John Cornish. 



At the early age of forty-seven this pleasant writer on natural 

 history and sporting subjects passed away on Jan. 30th, after an 

 illness extending over three months. He was a Devonshire man, and 

 was the son of the Rev. C. J. Cornish, who afterwards removed to the 

 rectory of Childrey, at the foot of Berkshire Downs. It was in this 

 happy region that he probably was imbued with the sights and sounds 

 of country life, and, without making claim to be a profound zoologist, 

 became an established writer on different aspects of the varied life 

 around us. Several of his books have been reviewed in these pages. 

 Since 1884 he had held an assistant mastership at St. Paul's School, 

 and this, combined with his outdoor recreations and his literary occupa- 

 tions, the outcome of a too active temperament, terminated in a pre- 

 mature death by overwork. He was much endeared to his friends. 



