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forty-seven years afterwards, viz., in 1713 and’14 we find a “John 
Wells,” who was then twice Mayor of the borough. After a 
century and a half later the numismatic art had made great pro- 
gress in “our town,” 
and in the year 1813, an excellent penny 
piece was issued by the firm of “ Christopher and Jennett.” 
This copper token is like the old penny piece of George IIL., of 
1797. Its obverse has a similar sitting figure of Britannia, 
who holds in her right hand an olive branch, with the sea and a 
ship in the distance; and its reverse gives a good view of Stock- 
ton Bridge, with its five arches and the river Tees. In execution 
it is not unworthy of the Royal Mint.—John Hogg, M.A., éc., 
orton, October, 1862. 
Tinea granella.—-This very destructive little moth swarms in 
the granaries in Neweastle in myriads, and is quite as injurious 
to the corn dealers as Calandra granaria or Cucujus monilicornis, 
the ravages of which have been most ably delineated by Mr. 
Bold in Vol. I.,p. 35. The larva feeds within the grain, and as 
soon as ever the weather begins to turn rather chilly, these little 
white creatures having fed themseives up, come forth and crawl 
all over the premises in search of some cracks or crevices wherein 
to undergo their transformations. If you go into any warehouse 
or even counting house where grain is, in the beginning of 
autumn, you will not fail to see hosts of these larve making 
their way over sacks, counters, walls, windows, in fact over every 
thing fixed or moveable on which the eye can settle.— Vincent R. 
Perkins, December, 1862. 
Lampyris noctiluca.—Glow-worms this year were not nearly so 
abundant as they were last season. I, however, managed to get 
several females again, and from them about fifty eggs; these 
I carefully watched as I was anxious to rear them, but all 
proved sterile. I observed no luminous property whatever in 
them, either immediately after deposition or after they had been 
kept some weeks. Now, glow-worms’ eggs have been observed 
by some naturalists to be luminous especially about the time of 
their hatching, and this leads me to enquire whether impregnated 
eggs are luminous, and sterile or non-impregnated eggs non- 
luminous? This is possibly the case, and I should be glad to 
know the opinion of others on the subject. —V. R. Perkins. 
