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Miscellaneous. 



the whole of the walls of our houses are built, excepting the quoins*. 

 Hoping you will forgive the liberty I have taken in troubling you, 

 Believe me to be your obedient Servant, 

 Bulford House, Amesbury, Wilts. A. Soutuby. 



TETRAO TETRIX. 



To the Editors of the Annals of Natural History. 



Gentlemen, — I have the pleasure of announcing to the ornitho- 

 logical readers of your Magazine the occurrence of a bird which is 

 altogether new to this neighbourhood, Tetrao tetrix, Linn. A single 

 example, a female, was shot on the 4th inst. in the Hebden Vale, 

 about two miles from Hebden Bridge. On opening the stomach I 

 found it to be filled with the flowers of Geum urbanum, Rumex ace- 

 tosa, and a few of the capsules of the Viola canina. The specimen 

 I have prepared, and placed it in my father's collection. 



Heptonstall, June 8, 1842. Thomas Gibson. 



SOCIETE GEOLOGIQUE DE FRANCE. 



We are able to inform our readers, that the great Annual Meeting 

 of the French Geologists will take place this year on Sept. 4th, at 

 Aix (dept. Bouches du Rhone), and we have no doubt will be at- 

 tended by a vast number of foreigners, attracted both by the beauty 

 and geological interest of the neighbourhood. 



Investigation of the Anoplura, or Insects of the Genus Pediculus of 



Linnceus. 



It will perhaps be in the recollection of our readers, that at the last 

 meeting of the British Association a sum of £50 was placed in the 

 hands of a committee of zoologists to forward the publication of Mr. 

 Denny's proposed work on the British Species of Lice. This work 

 has now appeared, and amply proves the propriety of the grant in 

 question. Figures of about 210 species, highly magnified, beautifully 

 coloured and drawn with Mr. Denny's well-known skill, are given 

 in the volume which has just appeared. Of these species nearly one 

 half are new to science, and nearly three-fourths to the British fauna. 

 Our object, however, in mentioning the work in this place, is to ex- 

 press a hope that the present Meeting of the British Association will 

 not close without renewing the grant, (especially as so small a sum 

 has been allowed to the Zoological Section,) as it is known to most 

 of the members that Mr. Denny possesses a great store of materials, 

 derived chiefly from exotic animals, of whose parasites we necessa- 

 rily know still less than of those of our own country. 



J. O. W. 



FOSSIL CRINOIDEA. 



Our correspondent, T. Austin of Bristol, informs us that he intends 

 publishing by subscription ' A Monograph of Fossil Crinoidea,' in 



* The specimens have engaged the attention of the Microscopical Society 

 (see p. 430). And we shall be very glad to avail ourselves of Dr. South by 's 

 kind proposal, in order to forward some portion to Prof. Ehrenberg, who is 

 now engaged in publishing a work on Fossil Infusoria from the various 

 quarters of the globe. — Edit. 



