3§ THE BRITISH NATURALIST. [Febru 



deal of knowledge and information may be gained by paying even a 

 short visit to any of the dales in the limestone district, their geological 

 formation closely resembling that of Miller's Dale ; a little practical 

 " grinding-up " of the rocks will go very much further than an equal 

 amount of "grinding-up" text-books, and will exercise both mind and 

 body alike. 



REPORTS OF SOCIETIES. 



ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF LONDON. 



January 17th, 1894. — The 61st Annual Meeting. — Mr. Frederic Merrifield, Vice- 

 President, in the chair. An abstract of the Treasurer's accounts, showing a balance 

 in the Society's favour, having been read by Mr. J. Jenner Weir, one of the Auditors, 

 the Secretary, Mr. H. Goss, read the Report of the Council. It was then announced 

 that the following gentlemen had been elected as Officers and Council for 1894 : — 

 President, Mr. Henry J. Elwes, F.L.S. ; Treasurer, Mr. Robert McLachlan, F.R.S. ; 

 Secretaries, Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., and the Rev. Canon Fowler, M.A., F.L.S. ; 

 Librarian, Mr. George C. Champion, F.Z.S. ; and as other Members of the Council, 

 Mr. Walter F. H. Blandford, M.A., F.Z.S. , Mr. Charles J. Gahan, M.A., Mr. Frederic 

 Merrifield, Prof. Edward B. Poulton, M.A., F.R.S., Colonel Charles Swinhoe, M.A., 

 F.L.S., Mr. George H. Verrall, Mr. James J. Walker, R.N. , F.L.S., and the Right 

 Hon. Lord Walsingham, LL.D., F.R.S. Mr. Merrifield then read the President's 

 Address, in which, after alluding to the principal events of the past year, and the 

 prosperous condition of the Society, he referred to the additions which had been 

 made in 1893 to the literature of Entomology, calling attention to the " Butterflies of 

 China and Japan," by Mr. J. H. Leech; the "Moths of India," by Mr. G. F. 

 Hampson ; the " Butterflies of North America," by Mr. W. H. Edwards ; " Lepidoptera 

 Indica," by Dr. F. Moore ; and the continuation of the " Biologia Centrali-Americana " 

 by Messrs. F. D. Godman, F.R.S., and Osbert Salvin, F.R.S. He also commented 

 on the recent publications of the Grand Duke Nicholas Mikhailovitch, Mons. Charles 

 Oberthur, and Dr. Staudinger, on the Continent. The President concluded by 

 referring to the losses by death during the year of several Fellows of the Society and 

 other Entomologists, special mention being made of Prof. H. A. Hagen, M.D., the 

 Rev. Leonard Blomefield, M.A., Mr. A. C. Horner, M.R.ClS., Prof. J. Wood-Mason, 

 the Rev. Henry Burney, M.A., Mr. J. C. Bowring, F.L.S., the Rev. F. O. Morris, B.A., 

 Mr. J. Batty, Mr. Francis P. Pascoe, F.L.S., Herr Eduard Honrath, and Dr. Adolph 

 Speyer. A vote of thanks to the President was proposed by Colonel Swinhoe, 

 seconded by Mr. Jenner Weir, and carried unanimously. Lord Walsingham proposed 

 a vote of thanks to the Officers of the Society ; this was seconded by Mr. 

 Waterhouse, and carried unanimously. Mr. McLachlan and Mr. Goss replied, and 

 the proceedings terminated. — H. Goss, Hon. Sec. 



MANCHESTER CONCHOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



A RAPIDLY DISAPPEARING MOLLUSC. 



The monthly meeting of the Manchester Conchological Society was held at Owens 

 College, on Thursday evening, 1st inst., Mr. R. D. Darbishire, president, in the chair. 

 Mr. Hugh Fulton, of London, read an interesting paper on the genus Pleurotomaria, 



