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instance of the occurrence of another large Squid, Ommastrephes 

 sagittatus, on the coast of Scotland has recently been published 

 by Prof. Mcintosh, of St. Andrews (Ann. and Mag., N.H. (7), 

 vol. XX., pp. 172-175, 1907). 



The Scarborough specimen, figured above, measured 

 5 ft. 10 J ins., with the tentacles extended. 



The ' Geological iNIagazine ' for March contains notices of some geolo- 

 gists who have died in 1906, 1907, and 1908 respectively. 



To the ' New Phytologist,' vol. VII., No. i, Dr. F. E. Weiss contributes 

 an interesting paper on the dispersal of fruits and seeds by ants. 



jSIessrs. A. Browoi & Sons, Ltd., Hull, have issued an excellent portrait 

 of the late Dr. H. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S. on a large art board, suitable for 

 framing. It is sold at one shilling. 



The iMalton Naturalists' Society has sent us its 28th Annual Report. 

 We are glad to find that an arrangement has been made whereby the 

 Museum will remain undisturbed until such time as a building worthy 

 of the collections may be erected. 



Amongst many interesting papers in the ' Quarterly Journal of the 

 Institute of Commercial Research in the Tropics ' (Liverpool University, 

 vol. III., No. 6) we notice two items by JNIr. R. Newstead, viz., ' On the 

 Gum-lac Insect of ^Madagascar,' and ' Scale Insects and INIealy Bugs of 

 Egypt.' 



Mr. Thomas Southwell, in his notes on the Arctic Whaling Voyage of 

 1907 (' Zoologist,' Feb.), shows that the 1907 season was even far more 

 disastrous than the previous year. In all, only three whales were captured, 

 a very small one being secured in Davis Strait, the other two at the Green- 

 land fisher}'. 



We notice from the advertisement columns of a contemporary that the 

 ' largest butterfly farm in England ' is in Kent, whereas the ' largest 

 butterfly farm in the British Isles ' is near Scarborough. Unless England 

 does not happen to be part of the British Isles there would seem to be 

 a mistake somewhere ! 



Mr. T. F. Sibly contributes a paper on the ' Faunal Succession in the 

 Carboniferous Limestone of the Midland area (N. Derbyshire and N. 

 Staffordshire) ' to the February ' Quarterly Journal of the Geological 

 Society.' In the same publication Prof. A. C. Seward has a well-illustrated 

 monograph on a collection of fossil plants from South Africa. 



Some wonderful things have happened in Selby Abbey recently. The 

 most recent find is announced as follov/s : — ' An interesting discovery 

 has been made at Selby Abbey. A stone which had been taken from the 

 north wall of the Latham Chapel, where the full force of the fire did its 

 work, was broken in two, and there, in a small cavity, was found an ordinary 

 bee, alive, but in a comatose state.' This should advertise the Abbey still 

 more. 



In the ' Annotationes Zoologicpe Japonenses ' (Vol. VI., pt. III.)» 

 recently received. Dr. Henry A. Pilsbury has an illustrated article on 

 ' Japanese Species of Corbicula.' In this he describes eight species, some 

 of which are new. In his paper he has the following note : — ' In dealing 

 with the Chinese species, Pere Hendre has attempted to name every local 

 form, a task I believe to be practically impossible, and if accomplished, 

 the result would be absolutely useless to any other zoologist from the 

 impossibility of again recognising the forms.' 



1908 April I. 



