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Mr. Spruce believes to be duo to denudation, while the Rowley Hill and 

 Dosthill are of volcanic agency. This latter view, he contends, is boruo 

 out by the fact of the coal measure at Dosthill lying so near the surface, 

 having been lifted up during an eruption by the "lava, which forms the 

 Trap Hill. — On January 2l8t Mr. Thomas Cooke read a paper on " The 

 Feudal Times," in which he traced the history of feudal tenure, customs, 

 <fec., from the Saxon to the Tudor period. 



WEST LONDON ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.— At a meet- 

 ing held on January 4th, Mr. Silcock exhibited some pupce of 

 A. grossularicita, which is a very rare occurrence, as this species usually 

 passes the winter in the larvae state. Underneath the currant trees on 

 which the pupae were taken he found many hybernating larva). It was 

 resolved that this society should take part in the forthcoming " Great 

 National Entomological Exhibition," to be held at the Royal Aquarium, 

 Westminster, during the present month. — E. H. Maycock. 



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