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variety is not given in Schimper's Synopsis, but is, so far as at present 

 known, an American form. It differs from tlie common form in its small 

 size, dark green colour, densely i)ulvinate habit, and strongly falcate 

 leaves. Habitat : sandstone rocks, Wliarncliffe Crags. — H. F. Parsons. 



A New British Moss {Aulacomnion turgidum). — Perhaps it will 

 interest, the readers of the Naturalist to h6ar of the discovery of 

 Aulacomnion turgidum in the Breadalbane mountains. This moss was 

 gathered so far back as 1871 by Prof. Barker, of Owen's College, but had 

 laid neglected in his herbarium until a few weeks back. Only barren 

 specimens were found, but according to Schimper it has been found with 

 good fruit in Norway and Lapland. — Jno. Whitehead, Dukinfield. — [Is 

 it correct that this moss has been found in Yorkshire ? — Eds. Nat.'] 



Seligeria tristicha at Castleton. — With reference to the occurrence of 

 Seligeria tristicha at Castleton, I recollect gathering a small barren moss 

 on wet limestone rocks, ten years ago, at the above locality. I took the 

 specimens to Dr. Wood, of Manchester, and he told me it was Trichosto- 

 mum tophaceum, but perhaps he afterwards sent it to Dr. Schimper, and 

 he thought it was Seligeria tristicha. — J. Whitehead. — [This may account 

 for Schimper's statement. — Eds. Nat.] 



Coleoptera of W. Coast of N. America. — Mr. 0/N. Sandford of San 

 Diego, California, sends us a priced list of the coleoptera found by him on 

 these coasts, which are either for sale or exchange. We shall be glad to 

 lend the same to any of our readers who wish it, for a few days each, on 

 receipt of stamped cover. — Eds. Nat. 



Obituary.— Thomas W. Wonfor, F.L.S. — This gentleman, whose 

 name has long been familiar to all naturalists, more especially to those 

 resident in Sussex, died at 38, Buckingham Place, Brighton, on Sunday, 

 the 20th October last, in the fifty-first year of his age. Mr. Wonfor's 

 entry on a public career in Brighton was made in connection with the 

 Royal Literary and Scientific Institution, at the Albion Rooms, where he 

 frequently lectured. A year or two after the formation of the Brighton 

 and Sussex Natural History Society in 1853, Mr. Wonfor was appointed 

 an honorary secretary — a post which he occupied until the date of his 

 death, and in the discharge of the duties of which he exhibited very great 

 ability and energy. It was as a microscopist that Mr. Wonfor chiefly 

 distinguished himself ; and one of his papers " On certain Butterfly 

 Scales characteristic of Sex," read at Brighton in November, 1867, was 

 subsequently published in the eighth vol. of the Microscopical Journal. 

 Besides his very numerous papers on microscopical subjects in the Pro- 

 ceedings of the Brighton and Sussex Natural History Society, Mr. Wonfor 

 contributed a great number of papers on almost every branch of zoology 

 and botany, not only to the Proceedings of his own Society, but to those 

 of other Natural History Societies in Sussex, and to various periodicals. 



