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and onr remarks would be as applicable 

 to one subject as another, but we 

 would not advise that students inter- 

 ested in different branches should form 

 onlv one society. In our opinion those 

 meetings will prove most interesting 

 till of whose members are engaged in 

 one pursuit. Botanists do not care for 

 what interests Entomologists, and two 

 who have kindred taste-, will have a 

 pleasanter hour together than half a 

 dozen, all of whom have different 

 tudies. For an exhibition a union 

 could be made with advantage, and the 

 more branches that could be brought 

 together at time, the greater would be 

 the interest for the outside public at 

 all events. 



We have exhausted our space, though 

 much more might be said on this sub- 

 ject. We will return to it on a future 

 occasion. 



shire, Denbigshire, Sec, ivy grows on every 

 sort of tree ; around Llangollen, especially 

 about Vale Cruses Abbey, it may be observed 

 growing in all its glory upon ash, and from 

 there to Llantissilio it lias taken full pos- 

 session from root to top of even the large 

 smooth-barked hollies, and at Tyn-y-pistol, 

 near the Brittania Inn, there is a stem of ivy 

 on an ash tree from which a plank twelve 

 inches wide by three inches thick could be 

 cut ; and on the first of this month, when 

 walking .ilong the edge of Windermere Lake, 

 I saw an immense ash tree, the ivy on which 

 had been cut near the ground to save the 

 tree. — C. S. Gregson, Rose Bank, Fletcher 

 Grove, Liverpool. 



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NOTES, CAPTURES. &C, 



Ivy ox Ash Trees. — In one of the early 

 umbers of the Young Naturalist it is asked, — 

 )oes the ivy ever grow upon ash trees ? I 

 ave been waiting for some of our young 

 •iends to find out that it does and tell US so; 

 ut as nobody has done this up to now, I 



rite to say that in ivy districts like Flint- 



ENTOMOLOGICAL 

 EXAMINATIONS. 



The following is the best reply we have 

 received to our request for a definition of the 

 order Ir.secta, and its difference from other 

 nearly allied orders. The signature we have 

 no doubt is a nam de plume, as we think the 

 handwri .ing is that of a lady ; if so we can 

 only exi ress our great pleasure at the fact. 



"The order Insecta consists of articulated 

 animals i.e., of animals whose bodies are 

 composed of a series of flattened rings, within 

 which are enclosed all the muscles and vital 

 apparatus. They breathe by means of tubes 

 (Brachea?), which pass through the whole of 

 their bodies and even through their legs. 

 Their bodies are divided into three portions, 

 viz., her d, thorax, and abdomen, which fact 

 has given rise to the term 'insert.' 

 They pass through a series of trans- 

 formati. ns, and in the perfect state have six 

 articula.sd legs and t.vo antenna. There are 

 several other orders of articulated animals, 

 viz., dustacea, Arachkida, M;tiapoda, and 

 Annelida; and I will now endeavour to show 

 in what respects these orders differ from that 

 of Inser.a. The Crustaca (crabs, lobsters, 

 woodlice, &c.) do not breathe by tubes, and 

 are divided into two portions instead of three, 

 the head being merged in the thorax ; they 



