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THE NATURALIST. 



many persons kept them through the sum- 

 mer, that they might be ready for the 

 winter. — Natural History Review, 1865. 



The Journal de Femrrvp states that since 

 the 1st of September fifteen small boats 

 belonging to that port have brought to 

 market a million of oysters, which were all 

 eagerly bought up for consumption in 

 Paris. 



Lepidoptera. — I have duplicates of the 

 following insects in good condition for 

 exchange : — H. Semele, P. Adonis, G. 

 C- Album, N. Zonaria, A. fuliginosa, A. 

 tritice, E. sanguinalis. Offers of exchange 

 to be addressed — Mr. W. Letto, Messrs. 

 Cook and Townshend, Byrom -street, 

 Liverpool. 



Duplicates — >S'. tilice, S. populi, II. 

 velleda, A. villica, 0. gonostigma, L. 

 Uthargyria, N. fulva^ 0. Ypsilon, A. 

 rufina, H. chenopodii, F. porata, A. 

 strigillata, T. juniperata, L. ccesiata, A. 

 fiammealis, and a few others. Address : — 

 J. P. Barrett, 16, Frederick Road, Lor- 

 rimore-square, London, S. 



Shells : — Gyclas pallidum. Fine speci- 

 mens for any of the following : Bith- 

 inia Leachii, Valvata cristata, Assiminia 

 Gray ana, Helix pomatia, H, cantiana, H. 

 Carthusiana, H. hybrida. H. pisana, H. 

 obvoluta, H. revelata, H. sumelleta^ H. 

 aculeata, or any of the geims P%ipa, 

 Clausilia laminata, G. hiplicata, Achatina 

 acicula, Lymneus glutinosa, any Gonovolus, 

 Gydostoma elegans or fine specimens of 

 any other shell. Address: H. Hutchin- 

 son, Church-lane Brighouse. 



THE VEGETATIO]^ OE SPITZBEEGEN COMPARED WITH THAT 



OE THE ALPS AND PYRENEES. 



By Chas. Martins, 

 Prof, of Natural History, and Director of the " Jardin des Plantes," &c., at 



Montpellier. 



(Continued from page 14:1. ) 

 Let us now examine tlie Elora of another locality equally well circum- 

 scribed, but wbicli is found under very different conditions to tbat of tbe 

 Faulliorn ; this is the Jardin of the Mer de Glace of Chamounix. I know 

 of no otlier locality in the Alps wbicli better recals the aspect of Spitzbergen 

 tban the grand circle of neve of the Mer de Glace in the midst of which is 

 found the lawn known by the name of Courtil or Jardin. The Aiguille du 

 Moine and the Aiguille Verte, the Tour des Courtes, and the Aiguilles of 

 Triolet and Lechaud, siuTound it on all sides ; the great glacier of the Talefre 

 fills it at the bottom. If by imagination the traveller, standing on the 

 Jardin, should suppose the sea to wash the foot of the amphitheatre on 



