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The Wood Sandpiper. — A male specimen of the Wood Sandpiper, (Totanus 

 glareolaj was shot at Barr, a few miles from here, on the 26th. of 

 August. It is now in the possession of Mr. Charles B. Hodgson, of this 

 town, to whom it was presented by the gentleman who shot it. — Henry 

 Buckley, Church Road, Edgbaston, Birmingham, October 15th., 1858. 



Thirsh Natural History Society. — Botanical Exchange Club. — The monthly- 

 meeting of this Society was held on the evening of Wednesday, the 1st. of 

 September. Mr. J. G-. Baker communicated a paper on a Barbarea which 

 has been found in several places in the neighbourhood of Manchester, which 

 he identified with B. intermedia of Boreau, a plant of France, Belgium, and 

 Italy. It occurs in waste ground and cultivated places, and may be known 

 from vulgaris and stricta by its prsecox-like leaves and short styles, and from 

 prcecox by its more robust habit of growth, and by its closer and more 

 numerous styles, which are only about half the size of those of that species 

 He explained, also, that Aremonea agrimonioides and Potentilla hirta, two 

 plants which have been published from Perthshire, had owed their introduction 

 to horticultural operations. 



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At what elevation above the sea is the Mushroom, (Agaricus campestris,) 

 found in the North of England? — On the 11th. of September last, whilst 

 exploring the slopes of Old Cote Moor, near Arncliffe, in Craven, I gathered 

 several well-grown Mushrooms in the 'rough pastures' just below the 'heather 

 line.' Having the Contoured Ordnance Survey with me, I found that these 

 fungi were flourishing at fourteen hundred feet above the level of the sea, 

 and it would be interesting to know what is the greatest height at which 

 your botanical correspondents have found them. — Edward James Maude, 

 The Old Hall, Knostrop, Leeds, October 7th., 1858. 



Can any naturalist inform me of a good plan of cleaning large shells, to 

 prevent their having a putrid or offensive smell. I have several very large 

 specimens of Fusus antiqutis, which I cannot place in my cabinet from not 

 being able to clear them thoroughly from smell. I should be glad of any 

 opportunity of exchanging shells. — C. H. Brown, Southport, Sept. 3rd., 1858. 



Can any of our entomological readers tell me what the larva of Eubolia 

 cervinaria feeds on, as I have some eggs of the moth, and should wish to 

 know against the time they are hatched. — F. O. Morris, Nunburnholme 

 Rectory, November 2nd., 1858. 



[The eggs of E. cervinaria will hatch, if kept in a cool place during winter, 

 next spring, and the larvae will feed upon the Common Mallow, (Malva syl- 

 vestris,) or if this plant is not at hand, they will ^tfc^p^jly^he leaves of 

 Hollyhock.— Ent. Ed.] 



