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The teeth in the lower jaw correspond with those of the upper, although a young 
one, which appears from the state of the ossification, and the total length being 
only three feet four inches. It has no remains of milk teeth. The following 
particulars with regard to the skeleton may perhaps contribute towards the eluci¬ 
dation of the genus. The palatine bones are as figured by Mr. Bell. Vertebrae, 
cervical?; dorsal 15; sacral 6; caudal 8; the tip of the tail was slightly 
injured, but I believe the enumeration to be correct.—T. C. Eyton, Esq., in the 
Magazine of Zoology and Botany for February , 1838, No. xii., Vol. II. p. 541. 
Substitute for Cork Lining in Entomological Cabinets. —Having for¬ 
warded the receipt communicated to you by Mr. Morris, to a very excellent 
entomologist of Liverpool, A. Melly, Esq., for the purpose of asking his opinion 
respecting it, he states that he has always been in the habit of using composition 
instead of cork, and that he finds it not only cheaper, but quite equal to cork, and 
that on the Continent the plan is generally adopted. The one he employs is 
much harder, and is composed of two-thirds of the best Bees-wax and one-third 
of the best resin ; but he observes that, in this climate, the addition of tallow 
cannot do much harm, and will save something in the cost; the great point is to 
melt it well, and to pass the resin through a sieve before the wax is added. The 
same gentleman has the best cases for insects that I have ever.seen, and they are 
very reasonable in price. They are made by Messrs. Gillow & Co., of Lancas¬ 
ter, -who, I believe, have an excellent name both for cases and cabinets. In 
Liverpool some collectors are in the habit of using prepared turf for the lining of 
cases, but from the experience that I have had of it, I do not like it at all. It 
comes cheaper than cork, but is far inferior to cork or wax.—T. B. Hall, Wood- 
side ,, Liverpool , Jan. 26, 1838. 
Carabus agrestis , C. hortensis , and C. nemoralis. — Weaver writes to me 
that a Mr. Walker had taken six specimens of Carabus agrestis in a Corn-field 
in the north of England. In the Linnsean Cabinet Carabus hortensis and C. 
nemoralis are mixed upas one species.—J. C. Dale, Glanville’s Wootton, Dorset¬ 
shire, May 15, 183?. 
The Natterjack. —The Rev. Leonard Jenyns, in his excellent Manual of 
British Vertebrated Animals , gives a very good description of this animal, under 
the name of Bufo calamita , Laurent. Among other particulars he states, that 
it was first observed near Revesby Abbey, Lincolnshire, by the late Sir Joseph 
Banks. It has since been met with in plenty on many of the heaths about 
London, as well as on Gamlingay Heath, Cambridgeshire, and in two or three 
localities in Norfolk. It is of much more rare occurrence than the Common 
Toad, and its pace is a kind of shuffling run. It spawns later in the season, and 
appears to affect dry sandy districts.—T. B. Hall, Woodside , Liverpool , Jan. 26, 
183?. 
