120 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. THE RETROSPECT. 



employments, and are not able to give up so much time to their favourite 

 study as they would wish, to have some person — to be depended upon both 

 morally and scientifically — who could name species for them from time to 

 time in the different orders; and if he were to receive a moderate but fair 

 remuneration for the work, say half-a-crown or five shillings for every hun- 

 dred species, depend upon it it would pay him well, while it would be an 

 immense boon to those who, like myself, cannot as they would turn twelve 

 hours into fourand-twenty or forty-eight. Even if not fully up to the 

 work at first, he would soon become thoroughly "au fait" at it, by dint 

 of examination and comparison at the Museum. "Practice makes perfect." 

 — F. O. Morris, Nunburnholme Rectory, April 2nd., 1858. 



The Rev. F. 0. Morris would be much obliged to any correspondent 

 who would send him an Obituary Memoir of the late Mr. Richard "Weaver. 

 If the late Dr. Shirley Palmer had survived him, he would have done justice 

 to a deserving man, whose merit is attested by the "contumely of the 

 unworthy." — Nunburnholme Rectory, March 16th., 1858. 



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Think Natural History Society — Botanical Exchange Glut. — The monthly 

 meeting of the Thirsk Natural History Society was held on the evening 

 of Wednesday, the 3rd. of March. Mrs. Alban Atwood was duly elected 

 a member of the Botanical Exchange Club. Mr. J. G. Baker read a paper 

 by Mr. C. C. Babington, on the supposed new Epilobium from Gormire, 

 and explained that the circumstances under which it grows altogether 

 militate against the idea of its having been produced by hybridisation 

 between E. obscurum and palustre. Mr. J. H. Davies exhibited specimens 

 of Cylindrothicium Montagnei from West Yorkshire, Gloucestershire, Sussex, 

 and Westmoreland; of Hypnum salebrosum from Gloucestershire; of Ortho- 

 trichum Hutchinsice from Cumberland; and of the true Bryum turbinatum 

 from North Yorkshire. 



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The best mode op setting Lepidopterods Insects. 



"Utrum horum mavis accipe." 



The few observations I thought it necessary and desirable to make, "pro 

 bono publico," on Mr. Greene's plan of setting Lepidoptera, will, I hope, 

 be taken in no unkindly mood, nor the following remarks made necessary 

 by his: — 



