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attending each lesson is 48, and the total number of attendances 
for the 18 weeks is 1,674. Exercises in composition upon the 
lessons and their subject matter are written by the scholars. 
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ADDITIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S MUSEUM. 
Mr. H. Barker (the late)—Pied variety of Blackbird. Heron Bridge. 7622, 1915. 
ADMIRAL Sir R. Massie BiromFietp, K.C.M.G.—Three large folio vols. of Pressed 
Plants, collected by one of the Donor’s great-aunts, sister of the late 
Mrs. Massie of Coddington. Presented “‘ as a memento of the long con- 
nection of the Massie-Townshend-Blomfield families with the County 
- and its ‘rare old City of Chester.’ ” 
Mr. F. W. Hurron—1 specimen of Vespa sylvestris. Runcorn. 7634, 1915. 
Mr. H. F. Jameson—‘ Pin-cushion” Gall (2hodites rose). Near Chester. 
7633, 1915. 
Mr. Joun Moorre.—Garden Spider (Epeira diademata). Burton-on-Trent. 
Mr. Par. G. NaGLe—2 specimens of Green Pug (HLupethecia—var nigroserriceata). 
Saughall Road. New to the Collections. 7631, 7632, 1915. 
Proressor R. NewsteaD—5 lower jaws of Bos longifrons. Two molar teeth of 
Bos sylvestris (?). Hunter Street, and Infirmary field excavations. 
7628-7630, 1915. 
Me. R. G. Sxipwitnp—Great Spotted Woodpecker, female. Rossett. 7623, 1915. 
Mr. Cuas. WATERFALL—Samples of coal from limestone quarry at Llemogwysteim 
Lane, Carnarvonshire. 
Mr. Cuas. Wricut—Larva of Puss Moth (Dicranula vinula). 
ADDITIONS TO THE SOCIETY’S LIBRARY. 
By Gift :— 
Botanical Society and Exchange Club of the British Isles, Report. 1914. Mr. 
Chas. Waterfall. 
British Association for the Advancement of Science, Australian Meeting, 1914. 
Chemical Society, Journal of, 1915, and Jan-Feb., 1916. Mr. W. F. J. Shep- 
heard. ; 
Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club, Vols. XXXV., 1914, and 
XXXVI., 1915. Thos. Shepheard, Esq. 
Huddersfield Naturalist and Photographie Society. 1915. 
Lancashire and Cheshire Fauna Committee, and Report of the Recorders, 1914. 
Meteor Crater, Northern Central Arizona. D. M. Barringer. The Author. 
Southport Society of Natural Science :—Second Brachydactylous Family. H. 
Drinkwater, April, 1915. The Author. 
REPORTS AND I'RANSACTIONS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES, 
MusEuMsS AND ART GALLERIES, ETC. 
(Marked * are ‘by exchange). 
*Academia Nacional de ciensias en Cordoba (Republica Argentina), Boletin de- 
la, 1915. 
*Belfast, Public Art Gallery and Museum, 1915. 
