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and very useful in villages and small towns. Temporary or 

 week-end exhibitions might be arranged, in which should be 

 collected examples of all the domesticated and wild animals 

 Qf the district that could be obtained. These should have 

 a descriptive catalogue and explanatory labels, and should 

 be accompanied by skeletons and pictorial illustrations. 

 There are many features in the anatomical structure of our 

 domestic animals which are well worth calling attention to 

 and which would be best appreciated when the living and the 

 dead were brought into juxtaposition. The skull, teeth, 

 tusks, feet, &c, of Sus scvofa, the very remarkable lower jaws 

 of the familiar Cavy, the differences in the teeth of our rodent 

 pests and pets, and a hundred other objects may be mentioned. 

 All the cottagers would bring birds and the school boys might 

 be trusted to produce snails, newts, snakes and sticklebacks. 

 Illustrations of variety in single species might be instructively 

 shown and commented upon in dogs, cats, pigeons and fowls. 

 The adjacent Educational Museum should supply the bones 

 and the diagrams. Such an exhibition would attract the 

 country-side and pay its own expenses. A well-prepared 

 catalogue would serve not for one only but for many. 



We have received from Mr. N. R. Edwards, of Cambridge, 

 a list identifying sixteen of the Museum specimens in the 

 photographic frontispiece of our February number. The list 

 contains only three errors in names, none of them impor- 

 tant, and we have pleasure in awarding the prize offered. 



From Mr. G. Merriman, of 96, Finchley Road, we have 

 received a very meritorious description of the skulls shown 

 in the frontispiece for January. In addition to the de- 

 scription, the names are correctly given in most instances, 

 and we have pleasure in awarding the prize offered. 



