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being specially admired for their quaintness— also found a place around 

 the walls. In another part of the building Mr. Lomas Joy had on view 

 a fine collection of British and foreign butterflies and moths, and 

 Mr. H. Bendelack Hewetson showed living specimens of the green tree 

 .frog, and nests of trap-door spiders from Mentone. Mr. Hewetson also 

 made some experiments with "animated oats," demonstrating the suscepti- 

 bility of the species, thus playfully named, when wetted. ° Perhaps the 

 greatest attraction of the independent exhibits was the " fainter " gi-apho- 

 phone, an instrument similar in some respects to the phonograph, and 

 designed to obtain the registration of speech or sound by cuttinc^ into or 

 engraving upon a waxen surface. A selection of music was performed 

 by the members of the Leeds Private Orchestral Societv. It should be 

 added that the library was comfortably furnished for the'occasion, and the 

 walls hung with a number of admirable paintings in oil and water-colour 

 lent by members. ' 



Meeting held in the Library of the Philosophical Hall, Park Row 

 May 6th, 1889. J. Charters Birch, L.D.S., in the chair. 



Exhibits : — 



Messrs. W. L. Carter, M.A., F.G.S., and J. W. Addj-man BA 

 exhibited among others, White Primrose (Primula veris), Cardamine 

 amara, Egmsetum Telmateia, E. paluttre (fruiting and barren fronds) 

 Lathr<,a squamaria, Orchis ma>cula, ChrysospUnium oppositifolium, Runun- 

 cuius auricomv^, Scilla nutans. 



Meeting of the Club, held in the Club's Eoom, Municipal Buildings 

 May 13th, 1889. J. Charters Birch, L.D.S., in the chair. 



DEMONSTRATION OF TAXIDERMY. 

 EDGAR R. WAITE. 



Mr. Waite described the treatment required to prepare and preserve 

 the skm of a mammal. A rabbit was chosen as the subject of demonstration. 



Meeting held in the Municipal Buildings, May 20th 1889 The 

 chair was occupied by Professor De Burgh Birch, M.D., CM.. F.R S E 

 President. ' ,••••, 



The meeting of the Club was devoted to the examination of the 

 results of the excursion to Embsay, which took place on the preceding 

 Saturday. To the botanists the excursion was most profitable, as the 

 following list of plants in flower will testify ; and under the kind direction 

 of Mr. Lister Eotheray, of Skipton, those present had splendid oppor- 

 tunities of collecting and making observations. 



