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Drosera rotundifolia, Alchemilla 

 alpina, Primula farinosa, Oxyria 

 reniformis ; and Mr. T. Hargreaves 

 Polystichum aculeatum, &c. — J. W. 

 Brook, Hon. Sec. 



GooLE Scientific Society.— 

 Meeting Feb. 16th. — A lecture was 

 given by the Rev. J. Spink, B. Sc. , 

 on The Galvanic Battery and its 

 uses," illustrated by a number of 

 interesting experiments. It was 

 unanimously agreed that the 

 Society should join the West 

 Riding Consolidated Naturalists' 

 Society. — H. Franklin Parsons, 

 M.D., Hon. Sec. 



Heckmondwike Naturalists' 

 Society. — Meeting 5th February, 

 T. B. Oldfield, Esq., president, in 

 the chair. — Two papers were read, 

 one on the formation of the coal 

 strata, the other on a submerged 

 forest near Holmfirth. A number 

 of fossils, comprising scales of one 

 of the ganoid fishes of the carboni- 

 ferous period, leaves of the Sphe- 

 nopteris latifolia and Pecopteris, and 

 stems of the Sigillaria reniformis, 

 Lepidodendron elegans, &c., were 

 exhibited by Mr. J. M. Barber. 

 Mr. J. L. Adamson reported a 

 woodpecker having been shot at 

 Gomersal. — J. Dearden, Sec. 



HUDDERSFIELD NaTURALISTS' 



Society. — Meeting January 22nd, 

 the president, Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., in the chair. — Various 

 early flowering plants were laid on 

 the table, and named by Mr. Allen 

 Godward, amongst them Mercuria- 

 lis perennis in bloom. The president 

 exhibited the following rare lepi- 

 doptera he had recently added to 



his collection : — Deiliphila lineata, 

 bred by Mr. C. Pickard in 1873, 

 from a larva found by him at Ply- 

 mouth ; the specimen of Deiopeia 

 pulchella, taken at Plympton, in 

 Devonshire, on the 2nd of October 

 last, and recorded in the Entomolo- 

 gist of the month following ; also 

 an example of Leucania albipuncta, 

 taken by Mr. William Purday, at 

 Folkestone, in July last. A discus- 

 sion took place on the contents of 

 a letter which had appeared in the 

 Standard a week previously as to 

 the efffect of aquatic vegetation on 

 the pollution or purifying of rivers, 

 the opinion of all the speakers 

 being opposed to that of the author 

 of the letter in question. A paper 

 on " Corals " was then read by Mr. 

 Joseph French, who in a very clear 

 and interesting manner gave a his- 

 tory of the various species of these 

 creatures, and the manner in which 

 the three kinds of coral reefs are 

 formed. At its close a lively dis- 

 cussion ensued amongst the mem- 

 bers, and ultimately it was agreed 

 to adjourn the continuation of the 

 debate until the meeting of the 

 19th February. 



Meeting Feb. 7th, the president 

 in the chair. — The geological speci- 

 mens exhibited included a beautiful 

 example of Bothrodendron puncta- 

 tum, from Bradley, by Mr. Elisha 

 Seddon ; and a specimen of saccha- 

 roid carbonate of lime sent from 

 the Thornhill collieries, by Mr. C. 

 T. Walker. Mr. Lister Peace exhi- 

 bited Limax flavus and Zonites 

 radiatus, collected in the district. 

 A discussion then took place on the 

 part of Holmfirth recently visited 



