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The Naturalist. 



219th Meeting, August 1st, Mr. F. Greenwood and Mr. J ohn Grassliam 

 successively in the chair. — Mr. Fairfax Wooler was elected a life member 

 in recognition of a former gift of £5 towards the purchase of books. 

 Specimens were shown by Mr. W. H. Taylor (ichneumonideous parasites 

 on Odontopera bidentata) ; Mr. F. Greenwood sawfly larva, not deter- 

 mined ; Mr. W. H. Hay showed eggs of spotted flycatcher, lesser white- 

 throat, chiff-chaff, and landrail, from within twelve miles of Leeds ; Mr. 

 W. B. Turner showed the stamen and anther of Tradescantia Virginica 

 with the microscope. Mr. Henry Crowther showed Sirex gigas, a male 

 and two females, taken in Cheshire, in 1875 ; copper ores from Llandudno 

 and Derbyshire ; argentiferous lead ores from near Penzance ; lead ores 

 (sulphide) from Worton, Wensleydale ; Pateley Bridge ; and Trelogan 

 mines, Llanasa, near Holywell, Wales. A series of correspondence 

 relating to the discovery of Maianthemum hifolium at Hackness, near 

 Scarbro' by Mr. James Braby, which had been forwarded to the secretary 

 by Mr. Henry Pocklington, F.P.M.S., was read. 



220th Meeting, August 8th, Mr. James Abbot in the chair. — The 

 specimens which had been collected the day before at the Borough- 

 bridge excursion* were shown, also the plates of Roman pavements which 

 were presented to the Club as a reminiscence of their visit to Aldborough, 

 by Andrew S. Lawson, Esq., (a VDte of thanks being passed), and the 

 proof of the photograph of the group of members, which was very 

 successfully taken by Mr. J. Bottomley, of Bradford. Among the other 

 specimens shown, were ammonites from Whitby, including A. communis, 

 A. hifrons, A. serpentinus, and A. planorhis ; also stone containing 

 A. fihulatus and small fossil shells. Avicula decussata, ''and specimens of 

 Helix Fraterina, supposed to have come from Russia ; all exhibited by 

 Mr. Henry Pollard. 



221st Meeting, August 15th, Mr. H. Pocklington, F.R.M.S., V.P., in 

 the chair. — The president, Mr. S. Jefferson, delivered a lecture on 

 "Rotifers," illustrated by living examples under the microscope. — • 

 W.D.R. 



Manchester Scientific Students' Association. — About 30 members 

 of the above Association joined the usual fortnightly excursion on Satur- 

 day, under the leadership of Mr. Thomas Armstrong, F.R.M.S. London 

 Road Station was left a few minutes after two o'clock, the party proceeding 

 by train to Disley. A walk of a few minutes from Disley Station toward 

 the entrance to Lyme Hall, brought the party to the wood above Lyme 

 Park, and thence, passing through the wood, the quarries were next 

 visited, and the botanical members at this point began their search for 

 plants. They were not very successful, the number of specimens collected 

 during this excursion being fewer than usual. J ackson's Edge was soon 

 afterwards reached. From this point fine views were obtained of the 



* A paper by Mr. W. D. Koebuck on this Boroughbridge Excursion will appear in 

 our next number. 



