Plea For Small Turtles

lIR.P. DERANIYAGALA, Director LTI of National Museums, Colombo, Ceylon, wishes to acquire speci mens of newly-hatched or very young urtles of “the four species occurring iff Fiji shores,” and is interested n receiving specimens from other Blands groups. He says that the pecimens should either be pre erved in methylated spirits or 10 er cent, formalin; or, failing both, i common salt. Incisions should B made to enable the preservative ) enter. Prospective suppliers are “quested to first contact him at le above address, to preclude pos bilities of too many specimens be ig sent from the larger groups of ilands. —Jack Thornton.