8iO REPORTS EXCHANGE. 



EUGBY SCHOOL NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY.— October 19t!..— 

 The Presiiieiit announced that " Tree No. iO," iu the School Close, had cpased 

 to exist, uud exhibited fragments from the inside of it. The holiday collections 

 of Lepidoptera, the prize for which was gained by E. Solly, (a,) were also 

 exhii)ittid. The Rev. T. N. Hutchinson read a most interesting paper, illustrated 

 by sketches made on the spot, of the " erratics " on " Norber," an outlying spur 

 of lugleborough, Yorkshire. He exhibited a fine Septaria stone from the shales 

 of Penyghent. J. M. W'ilson, Esq., read a letter from Mr. H. V. Ellis, once 

 bead of his xi., now headmaster of a young Riigljy in Natal. Mr. Ellis said he 

 should be very glad to exchange specmiens, &c., with Rugby, and Mr. Wilson 

 proposed to send him a collection of views of his old school. G. Jones (m.) gave 

 a short account of a curious formation discovered by T. B. Oldham and himself 

 in a brook below Shawell Church (Leicestershire ) It is probably a recent forma- 

 tion, though Jones thought it pre-glacial. L. Cumming, Esq., exhibited a rare 

 orchis from Gloucestershire, Cepludaiithern rubra, and a curious monstrosity. 

 He then read a most interesting paper on the appearance and disappearance of 

 some flowers. The President compared the case of the erratic appear- 

 ances of some butterflies. M. H. Bloxam, Esq., exhibited a plant 

 of the Eucahjptus globzilus, some fragments of church tiles discovered 

 in the parish church, also some from his ovvn collection, and some 

 coins and counters, one from Nuremburg, from the Church. — November 2nd. 

 The President made various exiiibitious. Mr. Percy Smith read a very interest- 

 ing paper descriiiing sugar making from first to last. Mr. Bloxam said Liwrence 

 Sherrilfe (founder of Rugby) presented Queen Elizabeth with a sugar-loaf as a 

 new year's gift. U. J. Elsee (m.) read a paper on "Cromlechs," describing some 

 remams he visited near Barmouth, N W. C. E. Sayle (a.) read a x)apor describing 

 a curious building he visited in the holidays near Oultou Broad, Suffolk ; he also 

 described Biumlerton Church, made so famous by Dickens. J. Lea (.m ) reaii an 

 interestintr pai^er ou " Attractions for Moths." The President discussed the 

 paper and the subject of " Moth Traps." Mr. Bloxam exhibited an Irish pike, 

 1793; improvised Hungarian swords ; Joseph Addison's sword; and made some 

 remarks on the suhject. — November 16th. The President read a note from 

 H. W. Trott (c.) ou the flora of Napton-on-the-Hill ; also a note from the 

 Uppingham Natural History Society relative to a joint exclusion of tlie two 

 societies. The Rev. T. N. Hutchinson exhibited and explained a Jablochkofif's 

 electric candle ; also some photographs of Vesuvius in eruption. Mr. Cumming 

 rend a note on a curious growth of shoots from a tree recently cut down in the 

 Hillmorton Ro;id. L. F. Carleton read a practical paper on " Aquariums," dis- 

 cussing how to make, decorate, and stock them. The best form is an oblong, 

 about live feet in lenijth and 1 foot 6 inches across, with one side only of glass 

 and the rest .-late. He described the seven best fish for an aquarium, viz., 

 stickleback, gudgeon, minnow, perch, roach, carp, pike. Mr. Hutchinson said 

 he had kept a marine aquarium for eighteen years now, and gave some account 

 of it. C. E. Sayle (a.) remarked on the effect music has ou the tish in the 

 Society's aquarium. Mr. Bloxam exhibited a fragment of a Roman mortarium, 

 from Cave's Hill, with the stamp of Moricam. This is unique. Also some 

 Shakespeare relics. He gave a description of the waj' MSS. were prepared for 

 the press. He then exhibited a bag of Roman coins,, some of which he dis- 

 tributed to the Society passim. The next meeting was fixed for November 30th. 

 No more excursions will take place till spring. 



STROUD NATURAL HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY.— 



November I'ith. — The " Ammonia System " of water analysis was exhibited and 

 demonstrated by Dr. Partridge, and the " Decomposition of Water by Electro- 

 lysis," by Mr. Paul Smith. 



EXCHANGE. 



Coll.ctions of Land anii Fre>li\vater Shells (up to seventy species,) chiefly 

 Nottinghimishiri', are offered for Natural History T<xt Books. Want Turton's 

 British L. and- F.W. Sh-lls and Geological Books principally. — C. T. Musson, Gti, 

 Goldsmith Street, Nottingham. 



Wanted to Exil.ange, good Tertiary Fossils, in splendid preservation, for 

 pood specimens found iu the Silurian and Carboniferous fonuations. — J. 

 Marriott, Flecknuy, Market Harborough. 



