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Natural History. — Tioology. 
volume of tlie Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History So- 
ciety. In the Memoirs of the same Society, there is an interest-- 
ing notice by tlie Rev. Mr Maclean of Small Isles, of an animal 
supposed to be of this tribe, which was observed near the Island 
of Eigg, one of the Hebrides; and in the second volume of Kotze- 
hue’s Voyage, just published, we have the following notice of a sea- 
monster said to resemble a serpent : ^ M. Kriukoff’s description 
of a sea animal that pursued him at Beering’s Island, where he 
hade gone for the purpose of hunting, is very remarkable ; se- 
several Aleutians affirm they have often seen this animal. It i& 
of the shape of the red serpent, and is immensely long ; the 
head resembles that of a sea-lion, and "two disproportionately 
large eyes give it a frightful appearance. It was fortunate for 
us, said Kriukoff, that we were so near the land, or else the 
monster might have destroyed us : it stretched its head far above 
the water, looked about for its prey, and vanished. The head 
soon appeared again, and that considerably nearer : we rowed 
with all our might, and were very happy to have reached the 
shore in safety. If a sea-serpent has been really seen on the 
coast of North America, it may have been one of this frightful 
species.” — Kotzebue’s Voyage, voi. ii. p. 183. 
BOTANY. 
24. Red Snoiv in New South Shetland. — Snow of a reddish 
tint was found in this region, as in the Arctic countries describ- 
ed by Captain Ross. It appears to owe its colour to some 
cryptogamic vegetable, probably of the same general nature as 
that described by Brown and Bauer, in their account of the red 
snow of the Arctic Highlands. 
25. Tritoma media. — ‘‘ I beg leave to state to you, that I got 
a plant of the Tritoma media in the month of October 1818. I 
did not receive any information respecting its habits, or the manner 
of treating it; nor did I happen to possess anybotanical work which 
noticed it. I therefore took what I considered at leastasafe method. 
I kept it in a pot in my house during the winter very dry, and 
in the following May I planted it out in a border with a sobth 
exposure. It made little growth till August, when it began to 
leaf freely. About the beginning of October, it put out two la- 
teral shoots from the root, a few indies from the main plant. 
