HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. / 
1872-3. 
Oct. I Edward Thompson, on ‘The Atmosphere in its Relation to Moisture.’ 
5, 29 Thomas Hick, B.A., B. Sc., on ‘The Lobster.’ 
Nov. 12 J. J. Armistead, on ‘Water Farming.’ 
5, 26 W. Nelson, on ‘The Lymnzide of the Birmingham District.’ 
Dec. 10 W. Denison Roebuck, on ‘Habitations of Hymenopterous Inseects.’ 
Jan. 14 Rev. J. Hanson, on ‘The Development, or Transformation of Insects.’ 
,, 28 James Abbott, on ‘The Anatomy of the Slug.’ 
Feb. 11 George Ward, F.C.S., on ‘The Element Carbon.’ 
25 Edwin Birchall, on ‘The Origin and Distribution of the Insects of the 
British Isles.’ (A full abstract of this paper was subsequently 
printed in SclENCE Gossip and in NEWMAN’s ENTOMOLOGIST). 
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Amongst the very numerous and important subjects brought 
before the Society at the conversational meetings the following 
facts of local interest are worthy of notice. 
Mr. John Grassham exhibited a specimen of the ‘ Large Tortoise- 
Shell’ butterfly, (Vanessa polychloros) which he had taken in the 
Meanwood Valley on the 27th July, the species not having before 
been known to occur in the district. 
The same member subsequently showed an example of the 
‘Camberwell Beauty’ butterfly (Vanessa antiopa) which was taken 
by Mr. Thomas P. Mallorie at Bramley Grange, on Whinmoor, 
near Leeds, on the 8th of September. Several other specimens 
were about the same time taken in and around Leeds, and recorded 
in various entomological journals, while throughout the country 
generally many hundreds of this usually very rare British butterfly 
were taken during the autumn of 1872. 
At the meeting held on the 18th June Mr. James Abbott brought 
under the notice of the Society specimens of one of the freshwater 
polyzoa—Alcyonella stagnorum (or A. fungosa) taken from a pond 
in the neighbourhood of Leeds. So far as known, this zoophyte 
had not been met with near Leeds since 1835, when it was found 
in ponds at Little Woodhouse and Haigh Park, as mentioned ina 
descriptive paper by the late Mr. Thomas Pridgin Teale, F.R.S., 
published in the rst volume of the Transactions of the Leeds 
Philosophical and Literary Society. 
The 3rd Annual meeting was held on the 25th March 1873. The 
Report congratulated the Society upon the sound and healthy 
state in which its affairs at that time stood, the year having been a 
very successful one. Quarterly lists of the members having to be 
‘kept, in consequence of the quarterly payment of subscriptions, it 
will be convenient to mention the number of members as standing 
in the Roll Books at the close of each quarter. The year began 
with 32; on the First of July it rose to 51; on the First of Oct. to 
59; on the First of Jan. to 63; at which figure it also stood at the 
date of the Annual meeting. 
