520 THE ZOOLOGIST. 
lection of Hydroida made during the exploring voyage of the ‘ Challenger ’ 
was assigned to Professor Allman for determination and description. He 
has published the results of his original investigations in the Philosophical 
Transactions, the Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, of the 
Royal Irish Academy, and of the Linnean and Zoological Societies of 
London. 
We take the above from an obituary notice in the ‘ Daily Chronicle.’ 
Avr a meeting of the British Ornithologists’ Club, on Oct. 19th, Mr. 
G. H. Caton Haigh exhibited and made remarks upon a Warbler (Lusci- 
niola schwarzi, Radde), which he had shot on the first of that month near 
North Cotes, Lincolnshire. The large bastard-primary easily distinguished 
the members of this genus (and those of Herbivocula) from the Phylloscopt. 
The summer home of L. schwarzi appeared to be in South-eastern Siberia, 
and reached about as far west as Tomsk, according to Godlewski, who had 
mentioned the powerful note of the bird; this was described by Mr. Haigh 
as disproportionately loud, and it led to the thorough beating-out of the 
hedge in which the bird was skulking. It would be remembered that 
easterly gales had prevailed for a considerable time. So far, L. schwarzt 
seemed not to have been previously recorded within the European area. A 
coloured figure of the specimen was to appear in the next number of 
the ‘ Ibis.’ 
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W. J. W., writing in the ‘ Westminster Gazette’ on the consternation 
among lovers of enimal life at the Report of the Select Committee of the 
House of Commons upon the Science and Art Department’s Museums 
advising the abolition of the Frank Buckland Collection, observes :— 
It is common knowledge that Frank Buckland intended the museum as 
an educational centre, and left a sum of money to ultimately endow a 
Lectureship in connection with it, which has not yet been brought into 
existence. To this it may be added that no post is likely to be created 
according to the terms of the will, for the trustee decamped with the 
money. Unless, therefore, the Government wakes up to its responsibility 
with regard to the direct advancement of many industries dealing with food 
supplies, and consequently grafted upon natural history, and begins its 
work with establishing a proper economic museum bearing upon fisheries, 
and using the Buckland bequest as a nucleus, this interesting series of 
specimens, with their old associations—unless some private benefactor comes 
forward—must be for ever lost to the country and to the admirers of one of — 
the last naturalists of the old school. st 
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