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some feeding on gnats and winter moths. 

 Japponica in flower. 



4th December.-WATER Shrews [C.fodiens) 

 — As I was passing by Windly Pool this 

 morning I heard a splashing noise, and on 

 looking I saw a Water Shrew jumping and 

 frisking about in the water like a porpoise. 

 There were several others swimming round 

 the islands, and popping in and out of their 

 holes. 



I observed some shoots growing at 

 the bottom of an oak-tree in full leaf. 

 Owing to the mildness of the weather 

 several lilac-trees have large buds. Daisies 

 in flower in profusion. Groundsel in flower 

 everywhere. Chickweed in flower in abun- 

 dance. Purple nettle (L. purpureum) in 

 flower. White nettle (L. album) in flower. 

 Garden flowers are out in profusion. I saw 

 a garden the other day at Erdington that 

 could not have looked much better in May ; 

 roses, pansies, wall-flowers and whole beds 

 of daisies were flowering. 



WHITBY FIELD CLUB. 



As " subjects " for papers are sometimes 

 not easily found by young essayists, we 

 append a list of the papers, read during the 

 past summer, at the Whitby Field Club 

 Meetings, kindly supplied us by Mr. Tate :— 



Pond Life - - - Mr. W. H. Dotchon 



Life on the Globe - ,, T. Newbitt 



Taxidermy - - - ,, A. Mallinder 



The Aquarium and 

 Terrarium - - ,, J.A.Tate 



A Naturalist's Walk 

 in July - - - „ H. B. Thornton 



Zoology - - - ,, A. Mallinder 



Entomology of the 

 Month - - - „ W.H.Tate 



Haunts of the Natura- 

 list - - - „ W. H. Dotchin 



A Ramble onthe Scaur ,, J.A.Tate 



A day's Fishing on 

 Coast - - - ,, W. J. Jackson 



A Tramp over the 

 Moors - - - „ W. H. Dotchin 



Natural History of 

 the Month - - „ H. B. Thornton 



Uses of Insects - - ,, F. J. Meed 



The papers were read every alternate 



Wednesday, from May to October. 



FIELD CLUBS. 



If all our young folks are as enthusiastic 

 as the members of the Frizingall Club there 

 will be wonderful doings next year. We 

 have before us now a number of the 

 " Frizinghall Naturalist," a monthly illus- 

 trated magazine of natural history. The 

 contents are written and lithographed ; and 

 as there are but eight small pages, the 

 amount of information contained is not 

 much, especially when nearly three pages 

 are "poetry," and there are several illustra- 

 tions, including a half-page view of Gibraltar. 

 But it is the earnestness displayed that 

 attracts our admiration. Here are a few 

 lads entering into the study of natural 

 history with an amount of relish and enthu- 

 siasm that we have not seen before. Long 

 may it last, and may there be many like 

 them. 



WINGLESS INSECTS.— LICE. 



In almost all orders of insects there are a 

 few species which are destitute of wings, 

 or have them only partially developed, as 

 we have recently shown in the case of the 

 Winter Moths, belonging to the Lepidoptera, 

 but these are exceptions. Yet there are 

 whole groups of insects which are entirely 

 wingless, and which may be treated as sub- 

 orders, perhaps some of them as distinct 

 orders, though frequently they are associated 

 with one or other of the orders we spoke 0£ 

 in Vol. I., and for this reason we did not 

 speak of them then as separate divisions, but 

 as we are often asked to what order does 

 such and such an insect belong, we will 

 now give a summary of the various wing- 

 less groups. The first of which we will 

 speak of is the 



