THE "YOUNG NATURALIST. 



12'S 



deliver each week among subscribers scat- I and Greece and Turkey 



I beg to state that 



tered over a large town. We have not had 

 much expression of opinion on either side, 

 and should like to hear from those who 

 have any desire in the matter. 



NOTES, CAPTURES, &C. 



Messrs. Williams and Norgate have sent 

 i No. 39 of their " Foreign Book Circular." 

 contains a selection of books on Natural 

 istorv. &c, in French, German, and other I 



I have taken it commonly in the latter 

 country, in the neighbourhood of Gallipoli, 

 in July and August, 187S. The Turkish 

 specimens are considerably larger, and of a 

 paler hue than British examples, but they do 

 not differ in any other particulars. — Gervase 

 F. Malhew. Instow, N. Devon. 



Y. Uktic.e Doubli; Brooded. — Having 

 read your paper on I'. urtic.c with great 

 interest. I notice particularly the doubt 

 raised whether it is double-brooded. I may 

 I mention that for a certainty it is double- 



nguages. 



ErOOSANDER AND SEALS IX COUNTY DUR- 



mt, — I have to record a Goosander being 



lot near Byers Green, County Durham, on 

 je 23rd January, in the river Wear. It 

 male. Perhaps it is also worth noticing 

 at a very large specimen of the Common 

 ial was captured on the 24th December 

 st, near the mouth of the Tees. — Thomas 

 axx, Byers Green. 



Lancashire & Cheshire Extomological 

 jcietv. — This flourishing society held its fifth 

 inual meeting on Monday evening, January 



brooded in certain seasons, as I have found 

 last year the pupa (suspended by the tail 

 about 6 ft. high on the outside of a building) 

 in June, which emerged. I also found the 

 a j larva towards the end of September (almost 

 ° I full fed) which emerged in the second week 

 of October. The insects of both broods 

 varied in size. — H. Andrews, Aldborough, 

 Boro' Bridge. 



EXCHANGE. 



Duplicates, — sEgerid, Aurijlud, Dgminula, 

 st, the President, Mr. S. J. Capper, in the Oxyacantlue, Dispar, Orbona, Fimbria. Desid- 



Hcctus, Fasciuhcuid, Ritbricosa, 

 Anomala, Fascidrid, Obfuscate-, 

 Thytftiaria, &.c. — H. Frere, Queens Road, 

 Kingston-on-Thames. 



tair. The officers elected for the new year j erata, — Davits 

 2re : — President, Mr. S. J. Capper; Vice- j Dentina, Myrtili 

 esident, Mr. Nicholas Cook; Secretary, 

 r. J. W. Ellis. This society now numbers 

 >out 50 members, and the balance sheet 

 lowed £y 1 8s. gd. in the hands of the sec- 

 tary. It is at present under contemplation 

 devote this balance to the commencement 

 an Entomological Library, but the matter 

 is left open for further discussion. This 

 ciety meets at 7-30 on the last Monday in 



NATURAL HISTORY DIARY. 



By J. W. Carter, Bradford. 



I have thought that a diary of Natural 

 History observations published from month 

 to month, might be of some interest to new 

 ch month, in the small lecture room of the beginners, in the fascinating pursuit of Natural 

 •ee Library and Museum, William Brown History objects. Moreover, the following 

 reet. Liverpool, and any entomologist in gentlemen have kindly promised to furnish 

 e two counties desirous of joining may have me with monthly notes for the purpose of 



^opy of rules by applying to Dr. Ellis, i3S, 

 rown Street, Liverpool, 

 V. C- album in Turkey. — In your article 

 Vanessa C-album you say that " it occurs 

 1 over Europe, except in the Polar regions, 



incorporating with my own : — Messrs. S. L. 

 Mo.sley (Huddersfieid), J. Firth (Bradford), 

 E. P. P. Butterfield (Wilsden), and H. T. 

 Soppitt (Saltaire), all of which will be 

 acknowledged by their respective initials. I 



