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cover belonging to P. Davies Cooke, Esq., of Owston Hall, near Doncaster. Mr. 
Read’s informant was well acquainted with all the common British species of 
Owl, but stated positively that the Owston birds belonged to none of these. 
Unfortunately none of these 44 little Owls” were preserved.— Ed. 
Elenchus Templetonii. —On plate 17 of the Transactions of the Entomological 
Society , Mr. Westwood has figured Elenchus Templetonii , taken in the island 
of Mauritius, by R. Templeton, Esq., confirming Mr. Curtis’s opinion of the 
value of his genus (though the word Elenchus occurs in White’s Selborne , 
Vol. I., p. 233), but seems to hint that his specific name, Wal/ceri , must give way 
to tenuicornis. Mr. Stephens must likewise have something to say on this head, 
viz., that he took a specimen of E. tenuicornis (qu., E. Wal/ceri ?) whilst 
sweeping Thistles , &c., near Hertford. 44 It moved its pseudelytra with great 
rapidity.” 44 The abdomen, when alive, is long and 44 this part of the body, 
when alive, is twisted about similarly to that of a Staphylinus.” Compare his 
account with mine in Curtis’s British Entomology, plate 227!—J. C. Dale, 
Glanville’s Wootton, Dorsetshire, July 9, 1837. 
Goethe’s Collection in Natural History, &c. —A letter of the 2nd Inst, 
from Weimar says, that in the house formerly occupied by Goethe, and which 
belonged to him, still exist, precisely in the same state left by him at his death, 
his bed-chamber, his study, his library, and his rich collection of objects of 
Natural History, antiquities, coins and metals, works of art, &c., which are 
visited by all strangers of distinction, and which were lately inspected in all their 
details by the Emperor and Empress of Russia. The Governor of Weimar is 
said to be negotiating with Goethe’s heirs for the purchase of all these objects, 
and the house which contains them, for the purpose of forming a national 
museum, which is to bear the name of the illustrious deceased. The collections 
are estimated at the value of 80,000 thalers, or rather more than £11,400.— 
Spectator, Oct. 13, 1838. 
Natural History and the Medical Profession. —The nonprofessional sub¬ 
scribers to the Naturalist’s Library must be imbued with the highest estimation 
of the medical profession, for scarcely can there be opened any volume of the 
series without disclosing evidence of the debt which Natural Science owes to 
men who have been educated for the healing art. In a former notice we placed 
in prominent view the fact that even Bruce was wholly indebted for his oppor¬ 
tunities as a traveller to instruction which he had obtained in Medicine. The 
facts formed a striking and valuable tribute to the highest of the arts. In 
perusing the history of Natural Science, the great majority of its contributors 
appear to have been disciples of that art. Each volume of the Naturalists 
Library is prefaced by a memorandum of some distinguished discoverer, chosen 
with no partiality, but for the greatest among his class, and as one result we find 
