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Thirsh Natural History Society. — The monthly meeting of this Society 

 was held on the evening of Monday, the 1st. of February. The following 

 Botanists were duly enrolled as members of the Exchange Club: — B. Car- 

 ringtou, M.D., Yeadon, Leeds; T. W. Gissing, Wakefield; W. L. Lindsay, 

 M.D., Perth. 



Mr. J. G. Baker read a paper on the British species of Delphinium, in 

 which he referred to D. Ajacis, the plant figured in English Botany as 

 Consolida, and stated that he was not acquainted with the true Consolida 

 as a British plant. He also announced the discovery in the Carnarvonshire 

 Highlands, by one of the Snowdon guides, of Dryas octopetala, a plant 

 previously known in Britain only in Scotland and Yorkshire. 



Mr. J. H. Davies read a paper from Dr. Carrington, of Yeadon, enumer- 

 ating five mosses new to the Isle of Man, and announced the discovery, 

 by Mr. Marratt, of a supposed new species of Bryum, (B. cochlcarifolium, 

 Wils. MSS.) in the neighbourhood of Liverpool; by Mr. Nowell, of Lep- 

 todon Smithii, in Borrowdale; and by Mr. Croall, of Andrecca grirnsulana, 

 on Ben-na-macdhui. 



€\i torist. 



Does the Tortoise produce eggs in this country? — Early in November a 

 bird-stufler in Fakenham, had a Tortoise brought to him which bad died 

 in confinement. Upon removing the body in order to clean the shell, he 

 found it to contain a number of eggs, some of which were in a very ad- 

 vanced state; the shell of one which I have appears quite perfect, and 

 must have been fit for exclusion. I was not aware that the Tortoise ever 

 produced eggs in this country, and shall be glad if any of your readers, 

 who are better acquainted with its history than myself, will inform me 

 whether this is an unusual circumstance — to be attributed, perhaps, to the 

 long, hot, and dry summer, or whether such instances often occur. — T. 

 Southwell, Hempton, Fakenham) Norfolk, January 2nd., 1858. 



[Can Mr. Southwell state whether the Tortoise had been for a long or 

 a short time in this country, and whether it had been "solus," or rather 

 "sola/' or not ?— F. 0. M.] 



Can any of our entomological readers tell me the money value of 

 Gassiope, Blandina, Artaxerxes, Arion, Bembeciformis, and JFuciformis? — 

 F. 0. Morris. 



