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The Naturalist. 



account of an evening he had passed on the^ previous Saturday, listening 

 to the beautiful strains of the nightingale near Barnsley. He also gave 

 some information respecting several interesting discoveries of old Romsn 

 roads in the neighbourhood, exhibiting specimens of the concrete of 

 which they were formed. A number of plants were laid on the table and 

 named by the chairman. Mr. J. L. Adamson exhibited specimens of 

 lepidoptera. 



HuDDERSFiELD Naturalists' SOCIETY. — Meeting June 26th, the 

 president, Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., in the chair. — In geology, Mr. 

 Zilliken exhibited Sigillaria and Catamites nodosus from the millstone 

 grit ; Mr. William Milner TJlodendron from Fieldhouse ; Mr. C. H. 

 Bould Ammonites communis and A. planorbis from Llanberis. In botany 

 Mr. Lister Peace showed various species from Snowdon and the neigh- 

 bourhood, including Sedum album, Allosurus crispus, Saxifraga hispida, 

 &c. Messrs. Joseph French, T. H. Bartlam, William Milner, and 

 Ephraim Fisher exhibited local species, amongst them being Hieracium 

 amplexicaulis, Linum catharticum, Thymus Serpyllum, Habenaria viridis, 

 H. albida, and H. bifolia, Ophioglossum vulgare, <bc. Mr. Samuel 

 Bairstow exhibited the sand lizard {Lacerta agilis) from Southport. Mr. 

 George Liversedge a nest with five eggs of the redstart {Ruticilla plioeni- 

 curus), built in a curious position at the foot of a tree. In entomology 

 the chairman exhibited a series of Agrotera nemoralis and other species 

 he had taken at Abbott's Wood, Sussex, at the end of May and begin- 

 ning of June ; Mr. S. Bairstow Ennychia octomaculalis, Acidalia subseri- 

 ceata, A. promutata, and others he had taken in North Wales ; also 

 Noctua Daldii, Bcodiona belgiaria, &c., from our own district ; the 

 secretary (Mr. Geo. Brook) larvae of Orgyia fascelina, Trichiura cratoegi, 

 Clostera curtida, Tceniocampa populeti, &c. ; Mr. Joseph Parkin 

 exhibited a very fine living Mygale arenaria, from Honduras. The 

 conchological specimens included Clausilia rugosa and C. dubia, from 

 Malham, by Mr. Lister Peace ; and Anadonta cygnea from Campsall 

 Park, by Mr. John Conacher, jun. A lively discussion, introduced by 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley, then took place on the new ' ' Wild Fowls Preservation 

 Bill," which had just passed the third reading in the Commons ; most of 

 the members being of opinion it might have been made a much better 

 Bill. 



Meeting July 8th, Mr. Samuel D. Bairstow in the chair. — The first 

 part of this meeting was but thinly attended, as a great many of the 

 members were away at the West Riding Consolidated Society at EUand. 

 On their arrival, however, at about 8 45 p.m., Mr. Joseph Tindall and 

 Mr. G. T. Porritt, F. L. S. , gave an interesting account of the EUand 

 meeting, after which Mr, George Brook exliibited larvae of Liparis 

 Salicis and L. monacha ; the chairman a box of lepidoptera taken by him 



