260 GLEANINGS. 
Gleanings. 
Aw Exuteition or Appies AND Pears has been arranged for by the 
Pomona Committee of the Woolhope Club, to be held at Hereford on 
October 29th and 30th. The Hon. Secs., Messrs. J. R. Symonds and 
H. C. Moore, will forward schedule of prizes on application to them, at 
the Free Library, Hereford. 
Giucurist Lecrures.—Through the exertions of the Rey. J. Page 
Hopps, a course of six lectures, in connection with the Gilchrist Trust, 
will be delivered in the Temperance Hall, Leicester, on Wednesday 
evenings, commencing October Ist. The lecturers announced are Profs. j 
Martin Duncan and Williamson, Dr. Carpenter, and Mr. Proctor. The ; 
charge for admission is one penny to each lecture. : 
PHOSPHORESCENT SEA-WEED.—During a recent stay at Barmouth I 
found on a dark night a mass of sea-weed, recently left by the receding 
tide, which was most beautifully phosphorescent. On taking up a piece 
of the weed and rubbing my hand gently along it the phosphorescence 
became still more luminous, and the luminosity remained for fully 
half an hour. The smell of phosphorus was also most perceptible. On 
getting to my lodgings I found the weed covered with Sertulariz, and I 
imagine the light-giving Noctiluca miliaris had adhered in great numbers to 
the horny dwellings of the hydrozoa, though I was not able to 
find it.—H. 
Mr. Bouron’s Stupro.—At the Sheffield meeting of the British Asso- 
ciation, Sir J. Lubbock, Bart., M.P., F.R.S., read a paper on the rare and 
interesting species of Entomostraca, Leptodora hyalina, new tothis country, 
which had been recently found near Birmingham. He said he had received 
the specimens from Mr. Bolton, of Birmingham, and took the opportunity 
of acknowledging the valuable aid that Mr. Bolton was rendering to 
microscopic enquiries by sending numerous specimens by post by means 
of his excellent plan of little tubes, giving great pleasure to his corres- 
dondents, and important aid in spreading the knowledge of many rare and ; 
beautiful objects. Professor E. Ray Lankester, F.R.S., speaking upon Sir : 
John Lubbock’s paper, said he was very glad to add his testimony to the 
value and excellence of the work Mr. Bolton was doing in the supply of 
living microscopic objects. He sent regularly by post to his subscribers, for 
avery moderate subscription, a numerous supply of living objects in little 
tubes; and their value and interest were much increased by lithographed 
descriptions and drawings of the objects that were sent with them. He 
hoped this excellent plan would receive the support of microscopists 
generally, to enable Mr. Bolton to keep up so desirable a work. He also 
remarked that through Mr. Bolton’s agency he had seen many interest- 
ing objects which otherwise he would not have seen. Mr. Bolton 
informs us that since his last report (page 213) he has sent out to his 
subscribers, in addition to the two new Entomostraca figured last month, 
(Plates IV. and V.,) some marine Infusoria, Kondylostoma patens ; 
Vaucheria, one of the fresh-water confervoid Alge, in an early stage; the 
interesting clustered Rotifers, Conochilus volvox and Lacinularia socialis ; 
the Pitcher Rotifer, Brachionus urceolaris, and the large Kntomostracan 
Sida crystllina—all accompanied by drawings and descriptions. Mr, 
Bolton has found Lacinularia socialis and Cristatella mucedo lately im 
great abundance. 
