carefully removed every single inhabitant before he brought the specimens to me, but his account of how he removed them fully bears out the quarrel- some character given by naturalists to Ceraptis abditus. He tickled them with a shoemaker's bristle until they grabbed it, and then he dragged them out. As far as I can ascertain, this is the first record of the occurrence of this Crustacean in Mount's Bay. My informant says he saw another colony close by the first, both just under dead low water at spring tides.— Thomas Cornish (Penzance).
Death of Mr. W.C. Hewitson, F.L.S.— It is with regret that we have to announce the death of William Chapman Hewitson, the well-known author of a standard work on British Birds' Eggs. Born in 1806, in the North of England, he acquired an ardent taste for Natural History, and in his early studies was associated with Mr. John Hancock, of Newcastle-on- Tyne, an equally well-known ornithologist, with whom he made a tour in Norway, for the purpose of studying the nidification of several birds, such as the Eedwing and Fieldfare, whose eggs at that date were undescribed, although the birds themselves as annual winter visitants to this country were well known. In this tour he was very successful, and British ornithologists owe him a debt of gratitude for the many additions which he was instrumental in making to their knowledge of Oology. He was quite as well known as an entomologist, and as the owner of a splendid collection of exotic butterflies, which he has bequeathed to the British Museum. In conjunction with the late Edward Doubleday, he commenced an illustrated folio work on 'The Genera of Diurnal Lepidoptera,' which he supplemented by another work in five quarto volumes on 'Exotic Butterflies.' The illustrations to these works, as well as to many separate articles in various periodicals, were all drawn by himself, and are admitted by entomologists to be unequalled for accuracy of detail and beauty of colouring. Those who had the pleasure of his acquaintance will regret that they can no more share the genial hospitality and pleasant welcome which was always accorded to them at his beautiful home in Oatlands Park, where, at the ripe age of seventy-two, he died on the 28th May last.
Death of Professor Henry. — Another naturalist has passed away in the person of Professor Joseph Henry, L.L.D., the Secretary and Director of the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, who died in that city on May 13th last. Professor Henry was born in Albany, in the State of New York, December 17th, 1799. He became Professor of Mathematics in the Albany Academy in 1826; Professor of Natural Philosophy in the College of New Jersey, at Princeton, in 1832 ; and was elected the first Secretary and Director of the Smithsonian Institution in
