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THE NATURALISTS' JOURNAL. 
The simplest and most efficient way of killing reptiles is to 
chloroform them, I have found this to be much better in effect 
than cyanide ; an ordinary chloroform bottle can be used. 
E. Sumner. 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
Mr. H. Durrant writes us that he has been inundated with 
letters in reply to his advertisement, offering specimens of Z, 
stagnalis var. elegantula , in exchange, and asks us to state, for 
the benefit of those he has not answered, that fresh supplies of 
Elegantula shall be obtained, when he will forward. We are 
glad to hear the Naturalists’ Journal is such a good medium 
among one section of our readers and trust it is so with all. 
The Birds of London. —More than 20 subscribers are still 
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names have been received it will be sent to press. For further 
particulars see No. 4, page 46, 
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