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&c. There was also a living speci- 

 men of the common hedgehog. 

 The chairman read an article from 

 the Yo7-kshire Post on her Majesty's 

 ship Challenger/' and the deep 

 sea exploration. Mr. T. Roebuck 

 read an interesting paper on 

 ''Flowers." —J. W. W. Brook, 

 Hon. Sec. 



Heckmondwikb N vturalists' 

 Society.— Meeting 27th May, Mr. 

 J. M. Barber, vice-president, in the 

 cbair. — A fine collection of plants 

 from Wensleydale was exhibited 

 and named by Mr. Robert Smith ; 

 a live scorpion by Mr. W. Carding- 

 ley, found amongst some logwood 

 from Honduras ; and some recently 

 formed conglomerate from Scar- 

 borough, by Mr. John NorclifFe. 

 There were also exhibited some 

 fossils and minerals, and a few local 

 plants. — J, Dearden, Hon. Sec. 



HUDDERSFIELD NaTURALTSTS' SO- 

 CIETY. — Meeting June 10th, the 

 president, Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 F.L.S., in the chair. — The speci- 

 mens exhibited were numerous, and 

 included in geology an example of 

 Ammonites splendens from Cam- 

 bridgeshire, by Mr. Joseph Tindall ; 

 Bhynchonella and a Producta from 

 mountain limestone by Mr. Henry 

 Mackenzie. In botany. Cineraria 

 campestris and Phytenma spicata 

 collected by the president the week 

 previous, the former on the Downs 

 near Eastbourne, and the latter at 

 Hailsham, in Sussex ; the follow- 

 ing amongst many others from 

 Malham, by Messrs. Lister Peace 

 and George Whitwam •.—Geum in- 



termedium and rivale, Viola Intea, 

 Ophrys muscifera, Saxifraga tridac- 

 tylites and granulata, Draha incana, 

 Geranium lucidum, Primula fari- 

 nosa, Cystopteris fragilis, &c. Mr. 

 John Robinson exhibited a nice 

 collection from Askern ; Messrs. 

 C. H. Bould and Allan Godward, 

 local specimens ; and Mr. Henry 

 McKenzie a number from Millers- 

 dale. Mr. Joseph French laid on 

 the table a remarkable monstrosity 

 of Bellis perennis, having a number 

 of peduncles grown together. The 

 president showed a beautiful living 

 dormouse, brought from Abbott's 

 Wood, Sussex. In ornithology, 

 Mr. James Varley shewed a living 

 tawny owl {Syrnium aluco) he had 

 taken from a nest at Middle Gelt 

 Bridge, Cumberland, on May 29th ; 

 a nest and eggs of the nightingale 

 (Philomela luscinia) from Abbott's 

 Wood, by the president ; and an 

 egg of the common sandpiper {Te- 

 tanus hypoleuca), found on Marsden 

 moors by Mr. J. R. Dore. Mr. 

 Joseph Tindall read a paper entitled 

 " Species are increasing, and have 

 continued to increase since the 

 commencement of life on the globe. " 

 The paper was a reply to one on 

 the same subject by Mr. Nettleton 

 some weeks ago, and the lecturer 

 drew his arguments solely from the 

 geological aspect of the question, 

 and principally from the distribu- 

 tion in the various strata of known 

 fossil remains. A discussion fol- 

 lowed. — = George Brook, Hon. 

 Sec. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club 

 AND Scientific Association — 

 211th Meeting, May 23rd, Mr. H. 



