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Miscellaneous. 



Insects at Sea. 



We are indebted to Captain Guillamier, the Commander of a 

 French ship, for a species of Casida taken at sea, Lat. 12° N., West 

 Long, 21°. which we find to be near the Cape De Verd Islands ; but M. 

 Guillamier, who was struck with the beauty of this insect, states that 

 land was not in view when it came on board. It was captured by 

 M. Guillamier, and lived throughout the voyage to Calcutta, and ap- 

 peared to be in perfect health when transferred to our charge, after 

 a confinement on board of upwards of three months. — Ed. 



OBITUARY. 



Late accounts from Europe have brought intelligence of the 

 death of Professor Decandole, Professor Don, and Aylmer Bourke 

 Lambert, Esquire. We were not sufficiently acquainted with these 

 eminent persons, except from a very slight knowledge of their 

 works, to be able to notice the peculiarity of their characters. As 

 biographical notices of them will doubtless appear in the reports 

 of some of the Learned Societies to which they belonged, we shall 

 not fail to notice them in our pages. From Professor Don we 

 had a short time since a kind letter bespeaking an ardent and en- 

 thusiastic mind, and from which it will be enough to add the follow- 

 ing short extract : " It is gratifying to me," he says, " to witness the 

 efforts of some young and generous minds, to do justice to the 

 memory of Buchanan Hamilton, whose merits as a naturalist were 

 of the highest order ; and perhaps no single individual has done 

 so much towards elucidating the riches of the Flora and Fauna 

 of India." Professor Don was a learned Botanist, and held for 

 many years past the office of Librarian to the Linnsean Society, 

 of which he was a fellow. He was also Professor of Botany to 

 King's College, London. 



