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excursions, and referring to its satisfactory financial 

 condition, it was stated that the present member- 

 ship amounted to 275. He devoted the rest of his 

 address to the subject of the mildew in wheat, 

 which, although a well-known theme, has recently 

 had fresh light thrown upon it. 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field 

 Club and Archaeological Society. — The third 

 evening meeting of the Winter Session of this 

 Society was held in the Town Hall, Stone, Stafford- 

 shire, on the February 19th last. There was a 

 large attendance, and the exhibits included a fine 

 collection of clutches of birds' eggs, each containing 

 a cuckoo's egg, shown by Mr. Wells-Bladen, and 

 heads of deer, belonging to Mr. Basil Fitzherbert, 

 and other subjects. A report of the last meeting of 

 the British Association, on subjects of interest to 

 the Club, was submitted to the meeting by Dr. 

 Arlidge. Two most interesting papers, by Dr. 

 McAldowie, on "Notes on Bird-Life during the 

 Severe Weather of J anuary and February, 1 895 , " and 

 by Mr. Robert McAldowie, on " An Ornithological 

 Excursion," were read. A discussion was opened 

 by Mr. John R. B. Masefield, M.A., on the " Wild 

 Birds Protection Acts," and resolutions were passed, 

 inviting the Staffordshire County Council to apply 

 to the Secretary of State for an Order to prohibit 

 the taking or destroying of the eggs of barn-owl, 

 goldfinch, nightjar, great crested grebe, curlew, 

 spotted flycatcher, pied flycatcher, wagtail, 

 swallow, martin, sand martin, swift, and tree 

 creeper, in the County of Stafford, and reasons were 

 set forth in support of the application. 



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Duplicates. — Larvas of Hispidaria; desiderata very 

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Healthy pupae and larvas of ligniperda, or great moth ; 

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Offered, Cassell's " European Butterflies and Moths," 62 

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Wanted, to correspond with a lepidopterist in north of 

 England or Scotland for exchange of southern Lepidoptera 

 for northern, and vice versa.— T. B. Fletcher, 78, Thornlaw 

 Road, West Norwood. 



Rare exotic butterflies — Ornithoptera urvilliana, ritsemas, 

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 rare British and foreign stamps.— W. Dannat, Ivy Dene, 

 Westcombe Park, S.E. 



Offered, 1894 eggs of merlin, golden plover, dunlin, 

 phalarope, divers, merganser, scoter, long-tailed duck, scaup, 

 bean goose, whooper, ptarmigan, etc. — W. Gyngell, Mur- 

 chison Street, Scarborough. 



Wanted, good machine (Abbot Bros.) for pyrography, 

 pattern touches and attachments, fret-saw ; offer Tuck's 

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Offered, marine and land shells (2,500 species), Coss- 

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 journals. — Miss Linter, Arragon Close, Twickenham. 



Duplicates. — Phascum bryoides, Sphoerangium muticum, 

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 ham. 



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 Ashington Bullen, Shoreham Vicarage, Sevenoaks. 



