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THE death is announced of Mr. John Blackwall. F.L.S., at Llanrwst, on May 11, at the great age of ninety-two. He was elected a Fellow of the Linnean Society as far back as 1827, and was nearly its oldest member. His principal work was a magnificent illustrated Monograph of the British Spiders, published by the Ray Society about twenty years ago. He also published a considerable number of papers on general zoology, in which the possession of keen powers of observation is every where evident. In 1834 a volume from his pen appeared under the title of “Researches in Zoology,” a record of observations in the field, with deductions therefrom; a second edition was published in 1873.