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NOTES: AND QUERIES. 
As we wish to relieve ourselves of all purely 
business transactions in connection with the Journal, 
subscribers are kindly requested to pay the amount 
of their subscriptions to Messrs. Tubbs, Brook, and 
Chrystal, 11, Market-street, Manchester, to whom also 
all applications for advertisements should be made. 
ALL matter intended for publication must be sent before the 12th 
of each month to the Editor, Mr. George E. Davis, The 
Willows, Fallowfield, Manchester. 
THE JOURNAL OF Microscopy.—The Journal of the Postal 
Microscopical Society appears this year under the above title. We 
commend it to the notice of our readers. 
ADDRESSES WANTED.—Can any of your readers oblige me with 
the addresses of :— 
1. The Scottish Naturalist. 
2. The Yorkshire Naturalist. 
3. The Northumberland and Durham Natural History Club 
Hon. Sec. W. B. Grove, The Mason College, Birmingham. 
THE Farry Friy.—Mr. Frederick Enock has sent us a very 
beautiful preparation of the fairy fly, which, as many of our readers 
will know, lays its eggs within those of butterflies. Sometimes as 
many as three or four of the tiny larvee exist in company in one 
single butterfly’s egg, where they change to pupze, the perfect fly 
eating its way out at last. It is shown to perfection under the one- 
inch objective and illuminated with the spot lens. 
Pusitic Aquaria.—We are sorry to notice that our printers 
neglected to acknowledge the source of the article upon this subject 
which appeared in our last issue. It was taken from the pages of 
the American Monthly Microscopical Journal. 
Tue Mipianp Naturatist.—This Journal is now entering into 
its seventh year, and its circulation is about to be extended by the 
supply of each number to the members of the Birmingham Natural 
History and Microscopical Society. In order to enable this to be 
done, it is proposed to raise the subscription of members to one 
guinea per annum. 
CoLr’s StuprEs.—Several numbers of these important “ studies” 
have appeared since we went to press with our last number. We 
have selected one of these for publication in order to show our 
readers the excellent manner in which Mr. Cole does his work. 
The article selected has been ‘‘ The Ovary of the Poppy,” but the 
