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The Naturalist. 



215th Meeting, July 4th, Messrs. Fred. Coates and J. Grassliam 

 successively occupied the chair. Mr. R. Milestone showed Stigmaria, 

 found recently in excavating villa-sites on the Roundhay Park Estate : 

 Mr. F. Coates exhibited a tooth of Ichthyosaurus from South Carolina ; 

 Mr. F. Emsley showed an abundant parasite upon the stickleback ; Mr. 

 W. H. Taylor exhibited the larvse and described the metamorphoses of 

 the common ladybird. Mr. Grassham showed living larvae of Bomhyx 

 Ferynii, North China ; Saturnia pavonia-major ; its British relative, 

 S. carpini, the emperor moth ; Liparis auriflua and Vanessa lo, the 

 latter being rather early. Mr. H. Crowther exhibited Smerinthus populi 

 and its eggs, taken near Leeds ; tooth of dogfish ; hermit crabs ; and 

 three Echini, or sea-urchins, from the Yorkshire coast. Mr. C. H. 

 Bothamley exhibited five specimens from the Permian : — Magnesian 

 limestones from Pontefract, from Micklefield, and from Peckfield ; red 

 marl from Fairburn ; and gypsum, found in the marl. 



216th Meeting, July 11th. — The chair was occupied in succession by 

 the secretary ; Mr. F. Greenwood, Mr. John Grassham, and Mr. James 

 Abbott. Mr. H. Crowther read a short paper giving an account of a day's 

 collecting on Adel Moor, and lists of the birds and beetles he observed ; 

 the beetles were exhibited. Mr. Thomas Pees showed specimens of stone 

 coal from Normanton, very thickly intercalated with shells. Mr. S. 

 Scholefield showed plants from New Jersey, U.S.A., insects, and 

 minerals ; Mr. F. Greenwood brought Hyponomeuta padi and cocoons ; 

 Mr. John W. Taylor showed Helix personata, the only Euroi)ean repre- 

 sentative of the American subgenus Tridopsis, and other shells. Mr. 

 Nelson presented to the Society, for the commencement of a local 

 collection, Limncea glabra from Castleford, and L. pahistris, var. corvus, 

 from Knaresbro' ; Mr. John Grassham showed a living German sala- 

 mander, found in a window area at St. Mark's Villas, Leeds ; also eggs 

 of golden pheasant, and of teal from Adel Moor. Mr. H. Pollard showed 

 a number of birds' eggs and nests from Meanwood ; Mr. F. Arnold Lees, 

 F.L.S., showed a number of interesting plants, including — Cypripedium 

 Calceolus, the extremely rare "lady's slipper " orchid, collected June 17, 

 near Shotton ; Cystopteris alpina, the alpine bladder fern, from rocks, 

 Upper Teesdale, first discovered to be native in Britain in 1873, by Mr. 

 Backhouse, jun. ; Anthemis tinctoria and Alyssum incanum from north- 

 west of Thorp Arch, not before discovered in Yorkshire ; Geranium 

 columhinum, Genista tinctora, and Hordeum sylvaticum, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Walton ; Carex teretiuscula, Ornithopus perpusillus, Trifolium 

 striatum, and Filctgo minima from Spofforth ; Fyrola minor from Hackfall, 

 Ripon ; and Ophrys apifera from Redsham Lodge Park. 



LivERSEDGE Naturalists' Societt. — Monthly Meeting in Millbridge 

 School, July 4th, the president, the Rev. W. Fowler, in the chair. He 

 exhibited fossils from the middle lias near Ilminster, and from the lower 



