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Stockport NaturRALists’ Socrety.—The ordinary meeting of 
the Stockport Society of Naturalists was held on Wednesday, 
May—, Councillor Barber in the chair.. Eight new members were 
elected, and a committee was appointed to organise summer 
excursions in connection with the society. Mr. A. Willett read a 
paper on Mosses, illustrated by over 100 specimens and numerous 
diagrams. Microscopical mounts of mosses in fruit and flower 
were shown by Messrs. Barber, Hudson, Bickerton, and Wakefield. 
Mr. F. Hudson, M.R.C.S, L.S.A., read a short communication on 
a young water spider, which he had carefully watched through 
incubation. Mr. T. Entwistle exhibited and explained a few 
varieties of Polyanthi. 
TREASURY GRANT FOR SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION. — The 
Treasury have agreed to allow £500 to the Fisheries Board of 
Scotland for the purpose of scientific investigation. 
MANCHESTER FIELD NATURALISTS.—The Committee of the 
Manchester Field Naturalists and Archzeologists’ Society have 
issued their programme for the first half of the summer excursion 
season. The places to be visited, beginning on Saturday next, 
are Morley Meadows, near Wilmslow ; Mobberley and Knutsford ; 
the Bollin Valley and Hale ; Sherwood Forest and Hardwick Hall 
(the Whitsuntide three days’ excursion) ; Chorlton-cum-Hardy and 
Barlow Moor ; Biddulph Grange and Mow Cop; Kersal and Prest- 
wich; and Miller’s Dale and Chee Tor. In the middle of June there 
will be a gathering of the scientific societies of Manchester and the 
neighbourhood in the Botanical Gardens. 
MANCHESTER NATURAL History Society.—The usual weekly 
meeting of the Lower Mosley-street Society was held on Monday 
evening, May—. ‘The chairman (Mr. George Burgess) showed a 
quantity of cultivated flowers, including Rhododendrons, Azaleas, 
and Auriculas; Mr. Whitehead some moths and butterflies ; Mr. 
Dodd, flowers of fruit trees; and Mr. H. Hyde, wild plants and 
marine objects from Llandudno. Mr. William Forster exhibited 
an extensive collection of varieties of the common Polypody fern, 
all of them far removed from the normal type, some of the ferns 
being very finely divided, and extremely beautiful. 
HuLME FIELD NaTuRALIsTS.—At the last ordinary meeting Mr. 
H. J. Edge read a paper on some Medicinal Botanical Products. The 
paper was limited to a description of the various kinds of barks 
used in medicine. ‘The several species of Cinchonas were shown, 
and other barks, including barberry, berbeern, cascarilla, cassia, 
mezereon, oak, augustura, elm, and buckthorn, were treated of at 
