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October 2nd, 1885. 

 EXHIBITS. 



H. Marsh conti-ibuted the following lepidoptera, collected during 

 the present year, viz. : — Yellow-horned (C. Jlavicornis), Knot Grass 

 {A. rumicis), Vapourer (0. antiqua), Gold Tail {L. auriflua), Ermine 

 {A. menthrastri) and other moths, and Einglet {S. hyper ant.hus). 

 Meadow-brown (<S, janira), Orange-tipped {A. cardamines), and Common 

 Skipper (JET. linea) Butterflies. He also showed a specimen of Unio 

 pictorum from the Tweed at Berwick, a locality very much further 

 north than the species has hitherto been known to exist. W. Barwell 

 Turner brought several specimens of moths, among which were C. porcellus, 

 A. p$i, and E. lucifera. H. Pollard's exhibits consisted of a number 

 of specimens of Cyclostoma elegans, which he had collected some weeks ago 

 on the Boxley Hills in Kent ; and several fossils, &c., illustrative of the 

 Barnsley coal measures, including specimens of calamites, lepidodendra, 

 ferns, microspores, and iron pyrites and slikensides. G. Paul, F.G.S., then 

 exhibited and described the large and beautiful collection of samples of 

 granitic mineralogy, which he had obtained in Aberdeen, and he explained 

 at some length the characteristics of the various localities in which 

 they were found. J. Wood, of Kirkstall, had forwarded a number of 

 uncommon plants and flowers, nearly all of which had been grown out of 

 doors, and these were next examined. The collection consisted of the 

 following : — Autumn Anemones, varieties {Anemone japonica) ; Globe 

 Thistle {Echino retro), N. Europe ; fruit of Hosa rugosa, Japan ; white 

 form of Gentiana asclepidea, European Alps, rare ; Hypericum empetrifolmm, 

 from the East ; St. Dabeoc's Heath {Menziesia polyfolia) ; Gold Tree, in 

 flower {Diplopappus chrysosophilus), allied to aster ; Goldilocks {Linosyris 

 vulgaris) ; Bristly Pearl Shrub {Margyricai-pus setostts), Peru ; New 

 Holland Violet (Erpetion reniformi) ; Amaryllis lutea ; Polygonum 

 vaccinifolium, mountains of N. India ; various sunflowers ; some British 

 flowers, showing their disposition to bloom late imder cultivation ; some 

 late (or early) coloured primroses or hybrid polyanthuses ; Acana Nova 

 Zealandiee, showing fruit spines ; and Stanhopa, orchid from tropical 

 South America, and Zajiageria rosea, both of which had been cultivated 

 under glass. 



October 9th, 1885. 



F. W. GREENHALGH, M.R.C.V.S., on " ECHINOCOCCUS 

 VETERINORUM." 



This dangerous form of the Icelandic tape worm had been bi'ought under 

 his observation in an aged cow, which he had attended professionally 

 at Armley, in the spring of this year. This cow had been in its 

 owner's possession about six weeks prior to his first visit, but beyond 

 the fact that it had come from the neighbourhood of Masham, nothing 

 was known of its previous history. A few days after its arrival at 



