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on one who was not only an inoculated individual, but 
an inoculator, who, till then, had ostentatiously invited 
experimentation with poisonous snakes, not only on ani- 
mals inje6led with his mixture, but on himself. 
This failure of the professor, however, though it casts 
an unpleasant light on the question, does not really affe6t 
it: still, it seems to me, from the considerations brought 
forward in the foregoing pages, that there is not a tittle 
of foundation, at present, for a belief in the efficacy of 
inoculation against snake-poison. 
Edward Waterton. — I am indebted to Mr. RODWAY 
for calling my attention to the fatt that in " Walford's 
Antiquarian" for September, an obituary notice appears 
of Mr. Edward Waterton, the only son of that most 
zealous- traveller and entertaining writer, CHARLES 
Waterton. Mr. Edward Waterton inherited neither 
the roving disposition of his father nor the scientific bent 
of his mind for the study of Natural History. He was 
particularly interested in antiquarian researches; and in 
certain branches, more especially in the literature of the 
" De Imitatione Christi'', he was a distinguished 
specialist. He had accumulated at the time of his death 
between i ioo and 1200 different editions and manuscript 
copies of the work, and for a considerable period he had 
been engaged in writing a history of his favourite book. 
A Lady's Museum Record. — Through the kindness of 
a lady who lately spent about three weeks up the 
Demerara river, the Museum has benefited by the 
donation of a colle6lion of about 200 insefts of various 
sorts, comprising butterflies, moths, beetles, flies, bees, 
