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Ex-cinsions. 

 E. DJblev. F.G.S.. and 

 F.G.S. 



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A. E.'Salter/B.Sc, 

 ., • 15.— »Gundford. 



22. — Cyclinf? Excursion. 

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 Arnold Benirose, M.A.. F.G.S., Dr. Wheel- 

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'North London Natural History Society. 

 July 6. — t" The District round Deal." L. J. Tremayne. 



,, 8. — '^Broxbourne. R. W. Robbins. 



,, 15. — ^Tringr Zoolog"lcal Museum. W. H. Smith; - 



,, 20. — t" The Balance Qf Nature in relation to Man"' 



M. Culpin. ■ .' . 



Selborne Society — Croydon and Norwood Branch. 

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Aug. i^.^^Belmont, Woodmansterne,- and .Chipstead. 

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South London Entomological and Natural History 



Society. . • 



July 1.— ^Chalfont Road. R. Adkin, F.E.S. 



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■//j'. /. Tuiiier, If an. Report Sec. 



Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists' Club. 

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12. — t" A Search for the Red Deer in the Holderness 

 Peat Beds." A. &B. Morfitt. 

 ,, z6.- — +" Advice to' Young- Microscopists."" R. H. 



Philip. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



July 8. — ■'^Drjffield for Skerne and ,Wansford. 



Aug; . 5-7. — '"■'Stokesley. 



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Oct. — T Annual Meeting at Harrogate'. 



Nottingham Natural Science' Rambling Club. 



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,, 15. — ^'Hoveringham. ■" . "^ 



,, 29.— *Bul\vcll. J. Shipman, F.G.S. 



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 H. S. Roberton. 

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" Hon. Sec.,_R, R, Htitchijison, 2S,'P.rinces Street^ 



North Kent Natural History Society, -i 

 July I. — '^^Field Ramble. 



12. — tLocal Wiid.FIo>v_ers. J. W^^Ccoper. 



20.— tBirds and their Tales. Rev. J.'\V, Hors'Iey,,M.A. 



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E.S. (Thornburj')-— The caterpillars which attacked your 

 apple trees, are of the moth Bonibyx ncusiria. This species 

 is frequently common and destructive in the south of England. 



S.A.W. (Luton). — Your primrose is -interesting, but a sport 

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 brought before our rtotite this season. It may be th6 result 

 of the small rainfall of the past two years. 



D.D. (York). — (i) A good modern elementary book on 

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Offered. A collection of coal measure plants, for an 

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Desmids. Wanted good gatherings of the rarer kinds. 

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A number of fine micro-slides, photo-mlcrographic prints 

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Devonian, Rhaetic, Lias and Oolitic fossils. Will exchange 

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Wanted from British localities ClanstHa bipUcata, alive if 

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Wanted, Clutches Sideblown Eggs, with authentic data,' 

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