490 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
Springfield are dwarfed into comparative insignificance by the results of a 
series of examinations of the water supply of Newport, R. I., as given by 
Dr. Drown in a recent report, from which it appears that on August 31st, 
1891, there were present in EKaston’s Pond, one of the sources of supply 
for Newport, the large number of grass-green Algee (Chlorophyces) of 
677,750 per 100 cubic centimetres ; on September 11th, 1891, there were 
found 927,400; on October 8th the number had fallen to 675,700, but 
subsequently again rose until the enormous maximum was attained on 
January 18th, 1892, of 1,428,600 per 100 cubic centimetres. Diatoms 
were present on the same date to the amount of 200,700 per 100 cubic 
centimetres, giving a total of Diatoms and grass-green Alge of 1,629,300. 
In the July number of the ‘Home University’ is an interesting note 
“On Temporary Museums,” which we here reproduce :— 
We desire strongly to recommend as a very efficient aid to education 
the formation of Temporary Museums. These are especially suitable for 
places of summer resort at the seaside, or elsewhere, but they might also 
be attempted with success in almost any town. A museum of this kind 
was organised last summer at the pleasant little town of Hunstanton on 
the Norfolk coast, and it is upon the experience there obtained that our 
suggestions and advice to others who may be encouraged to attempt the 
like will be based. At Hunstanton the Museum was open five weeks, 
that is, during almost the whole time that the Board-School-rooms were at 
liberty. ‘The school-rooms were rented for a nominal sum, and were fitted 
up with boards laid across the desks, upon which objects were displayed. 
A Committee of Organisation and Management, composed partly of resi- 
deuts and partly of visitors, was, of course, extemporised, and appeals were 
made for the loan of objects of interest. It is scarcely to be doubted that 
in almost any town there would be found those who for such a purpose 
would be willing to lend pictures, cases of stuffed birds, insects, fossils, and 
miscellaneous curios. With objects of this kind to make the chief display, 
the members of Committee would easily supply the rest. A few books of 
reference should be borrowed—if possible a copy of the ‘ Encyclopedia 
Britannica ’—and an energetic Sub-Committee to name and label the 
objects should commence its labours a week or two before the opening, and 
continue them throughout. Those thus engaged would find their reward 
in the acquisition of much knowledge, for more is to be learned in the act 
of making and arranging museums than can be got by visiting those 
already in good order. 
AT a recent meeting of the Linnean Society at Burlington House, a 
series of interesting photographs of a fine hen Buzzard, of the common 
