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Great Grey Shrie:e at Scarborough. — It may interest readers of the 

 Katuralist to know that a fine specimen of the great grey shrike was seen 

 in this neighbourhood on the 11th of this month, about four miles from 

 Scarbro', near Hackness. I had a capital opportunity of observing it, 

 and its appearance and action are capitally described by Yarrell, so that 

 I had no difficulty in identifying it from liis account of it. — W. Robinso^st, 

 West Bank, Scarborough, December 27th. 



Yorkshire Mollusca, &c. — Will any of the readers of the Naturalist 

 kindly obHge me with information, local Ksts, specimens, etc., of the 

 recent and fossil marine mollusca of Yorkshire, with the view to 

 preparing a report of the species to be found in Yorksliire ? All postage, 

 &c. , will be paid by me, of course. — Wm. Cash, 38, Elmfield Terrace, 

 HaKfax. 



Obitnary — Mr. F. T, Bucklaxd. — We regret that we have this month 

 to record the death of iMr. Francis Trevelyan Buckland (better known as 

 Frank Buckland), which took place at his residence, 37, Albany-street, on 

 Sunday, the 19th ult. He was the eldest son of the Very Rev. Wilham 

 Buckland, D.D., Dean of Westminster, and was born Dec. 17th, 1826. 

 He was a scholar of Winchester College, and student of Cluist Church, 

 Oxford, where he took his B.A. degree in 1818. Inheriting from his 

 father a strong taste for physical science and natural history, he devoted 

 himseh to the study of medicine, and having served the office of house 

 surgeon to St. George's Hospital, became, in 1851, assistant-surgeon to 

 the 2nd Life Guards, from which post he retired in 1863. He was an 

 extensive contributor of papers on pisciculture and on other branches of 

 natural science, to the columns of the Times and of other periodicals, and 

 conducted for many years the ^'Sea and River Fisheries" and Practical 

 JiTatural History " columns of Land and fVater. He established at his 

 own expense, the Museum of Economic Fish-culture" (under the 

 Science and Art Department, South Kensington), at the Royal Horticul- 

 tural Gardens. This museum illustrates the cultivation of salmon, trout, 

 and useful fresh-water fish, as weU as oysters and sea fish. In 1866 he 

 received a silver medal for his labours in the promotion of this branch of 

 science from the " Exposition de Peche et d'Aquiculture " at Arcachon, 

 in France, and in 1868 the Diploma of Honour from the Havre 

 Exhibition. He is the author of Curiosities of Natural History " (first, 

 second, and third series) ; and of '^'Fish-hatching." He edited, in 1858, 

 his father's Bridgewater Treatise on Geology and Mineralogy. In 1859 

 he discovered, in the vaults of St. Martin's, Charing Cross, the coffin of 

 the great surgeon and phj'siologist, John Hunter, which was re-interred 

 in Westminster Abbey by the Royal College of Surgeons. For this he 

 received the thanks of the Council of that body, and a bound copy of the 

 Catalogue of the Hunterian Museum. The Leeds School of Medicine 

 also presented him with a silver medal. In 1867 he was appointed 

 Inspector of Salmon Fisheries for England and Wales, and in 1870 

 Special Commissioner to inquire into the efi'ects of recent legislation on 



