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riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all 
her paths are peace.” 
The will (dated September 27th, 1881) of Mr. Charles Robert 
Darwin was proved on the 6th of June, by William Erasmus Dar- 
win and George Howard Darwin, the sons and executors, the value 
of the personal estate amounting to upwards of giAD,oeo. . The 
testator leaves to his son William Erasmus the family portraits and 
papers, all medals, the silver candlesticks presented to him by the 
Royal Society, his manuscript of the voyage of the Beagle, and his 
manuscript autobiography ; to his son Francis, his scientific library ; 
to his wife, Mrs. Emma Darwin, £500, all his furniture, plate, 
books, effects, horses and carriages, and his residence at Down for 
life ; and to his friends, Sir Joseph Dalton Hooker and Thomas 
Henry Huxley, £1,000 each, free of legacy duty. The residue of 
his real and personal estate is to be held upon trust for his wife for 
life, and at her death as to twelve seventy-fourth parts for each of 
his five sons, and as to seven seventy-fourth parts for each of 
his two daughters ; certain advancements made to his children are 
to be brought into account on the division. 
CoreTHRA,—I hear a number of different accounts of the Larva 
of the Corethra, and a beautiful creature it is when examined. In 
addition to what is said of it in your last number for June, I would 
add a little more, as I have not seen it noticed in other accounts. 
It has two jaws, and feeds on other animals—the bloodworm for 
one, as I once found the head and part of the body of one in its 
stomach, On squeezing the Larva between two glasses, the stomach 
is forced out of the mouth, and it is a good object for the Micros- 
cope, as it is covered with rows of spines. I suppose they help to 
retain its food. The use of the shell-like bodies has, I suppose, 
something to do with the breathing or circulation. At any rate, 
they are beautifully spotted, and can be taken whole out of the 
body ; they are hollow and of a fibrous structure. 
Epw. Tuos. Scott. 
Mountinc VoLvox In GLYCERINE JELLY.—In reply to your 
correspondent T. R. B., I beg to say that I boiled the Volvox in 
the Jelly on the slide, the cover glass being held in position, during 
the boiling process, by a rather loose clip. 
Jno. FLEMING. 
Kitiinc Borrtes.—The most effective way of making this is, 
to take a wide mouth bottle and pour in some cream of Plaster of 
Paris to cover the bottom to the extent of half-an-inch, incline the 
bottle, so that the mixture runs round the sides for half-an-inch up- 
wards. This must be allowed to become dry, and afterwards baked 
in a cool oven. When cold, insert some fragments of cyanide of 
potassium (which by the bye is a very deadly poison) to the depth 


