THE YOUNG 



tion and cultivation trained them to be 

 fit for our use. And on the other 

 liand, how often do we read of children 

 having been poisoned by eating poison- 

 ous plants? Yet those children had, 

 no doubt, been taught all about nouns, 

 adverbs, and pronouns, but of what 

 use was this to them, when by want of 

 a knowledge of plants they had 

 been poisoned by eating the deadly 

 kinds ? 



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NATURALIST. 315 



EXCHANGE. 



I shall de glad to send living specimens 

 of Pissodcs pint to anyone desiring them. — 

 JoFiN E. RoBSON, 15, Northgate, Hartlepool. 



Duplicates. — Geryon, Capsincola, Diden- 

 tata, Borcata, Chi, Zonaria. Desiderata. — 

 Very numerous ; many common butterflies 

 wanted. — Tom Robson, 15, Northgate, Hart- 

 lepool. 



Paphia, Euphrasy ne, Selene, Batis, Umbrosa, 

 Triangulum, Diluta, Herbida, Nebulosa, Loni- 

 cera, Saticis, Bucephala, Ulmata, Albicillata, 

 Gonostigma, and larvae. Desiderata. — Fine 

 specimens of many species. — J. Lissaman, 

 48, Court, 28, House. Lyons St. Coventry. 



Duplicates. — Vanessa eardui, Abraxas 

 ulmata, Abraxas grossnlar'tata, Poliz cMy 

 Hybernia defeliaria, Hybernia progemmaria^ 

 InjeencR alexis, Sombyx quercns, Noctuce 

 festiva, Noctuce augur, Plusia gamima, Flavi- 

 cornis. — Richard Hayhurst, 16, Anderson 

 Street, Maningham, Bradford. 



NOTES AND OBSERVATIONS 



Plusia Bractea, near Morpeth, North- 

 umberland. — It has been a very bad year 

 here for treacle. Nothing whatever to get, 

 we have sugared almost everywhere, but 

 can never get a solitary specimen, whereas 

 last year we took all sorts of Noctutt in 

 swarms. A friend of mine, Mr. J. G. Scott, 

 has taken a P. Bracka, at Pleasey, near 

 Morpeth this week. He also took several 

 Camelina, at the beginning of the season, at 

 the same place. — George T. Miller, 

 Gateshead. 



Sugar in Devonshire. — Sugar has, with 

 me, yielded nothing but the very commonest 

 species, such as Exclamationis, Segctum, Poly- 

 odon, etc., in June; Oculea, Pronuba, etc.. 

 now, and these by no means plentiful. 

 Perhaps if I had sugared more persistently 

 the result might have been a little hotter, 

 but it was too discouragfng. — (Miss) K. M. 



IIlNcni.IME. 



