THE YOUNG NATURALIST. 



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into Swedish. Two years afterwards 

 he was chosen member of a committee 

 to superintend a better translation of 

 the Bible into Swedish, and the task of 

 ascertaining and describing the plants 

 and vegetables mentioned there was 

 entrusted to his care. To show that 

 the vigour of his mind, notwith- 

 standing his arduous career, was 

 still unimpaired, it may be mentioned 

 that in 1774 he prepared a catalogue of 

 a collection of plants from Surinam, 

 making out thirteen new genera and 

 about forty species not previously des- 

 cribed. Shortly after this he received 

 a warning that the end was near. 

 While lecturing as usual in the botani- 

 cal gardens he had an apoplectic stroke, 

 from which he did not quickly recover. 

 From this period he declined gradually, 

 though for two years longer he contin- 

 ued at intervals to perform his public 

 duties. In 1776 he had a second stroke 

 which affected his speech. He contin- 

 ued to feel his wonted interest in the 

 treasures of his museum, to which he 

 used to be carried, and his spirits always 

 revived when any new or rare produc- 

 tion reached him. At the end of this 

 year he had a third stroke, his right 

 side was paralyzed, softening of the 

 brain set in, and his mental faculties 

 gradually wasted away. He continued 

 in this distressing state for nearly a 

 year, sometimes suffering greatly from 

 his former complaint ; but he gradually 

 became insensible to pain, and expired 

 in his sleep on the 10th January, 1778, 

 ^ in the seventy-first year of his age. 



daughters. The son, who only survived 

 his father about five years, left no chil- 

 dren, and with him the male branch 

 terminated. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Ail communications to be sent to J. E. Robson, Bellerby 

 Terrace, Wtst Hiirtlepool ; or to S. L. Mosley Beau- 

 mont Park, Hudilerslield. 



Several correspondents are thanked for 

 Usts of Hawk Moths occurring in their 

 localities. We shall be obliged for others. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &c. 



Variety of Saxicola iE.NA.NTHE (?) — 

 On the 1 8th August last, I shot a Wheatear, 

 with the head and neck and upper part of 

 the back white. I am not quite certain if it 

 S. ananthe or a different species, it looks a 

 trifle larger than S. .^nanthe. — F. Kerry, 

 Harwich. 



L. Ca.melina larv.« in November, &c. 

 — I took larvae of this species at Richmond, 

 Yorks, on the ist November, not nearly full 

 grown. They were on tree trunks, and there 

 was not a leaf left for them to feed on. 

 Under such circumstances do they die or 

 hybernate ? I also took on tree trunks, two 

 specimens of Z. riuzoiitha, when there were 

 several degrees of frost, the ground being 

 frozen quite hard. — Alfred Woods, West 

 Hartlepool. 



Hedgehogs. — A short time ago I was 

 staying at a farmliouse, in Shropshire, One 

 evening I was going a walk along a lane 

 when I heard a strange grunting noise, I 

 looked over tlie hedge into a field, and saw 

 several hedgehogs feeding on the carcase of 

 a dead sheep. They were so intent upon 

 feeding that they allowed me to pick them 

 up without showing any signs of fear. I 

 took two back with me, carried one inside 

 my hat, and the other wrapped up in a 

 handkerchief. For several days I fed them 

 upon bread and milk, and crab apples. I 



