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The Naturalist. 



York road, Leeds, containing Anthracosia. Mr. Walter H. Hay 

 showed a fine series of eggs of sea-birds, including the razor-bill, the 

 guillemot, the shag, the cormorant, the gannet, the lesser black-backed 

 gull, the kittiwake gull, the lesser tern, and the common tern. Mr. W. 

 H. Taylor showed a species of remarkable beetle, which he considered to 

 be Campylus linearis, one of the Elateridse, or skip- jacks. Mr. William 

 Nelson showed specimens of Helix pisana from Tenby, Jersey, Guernsey, 

 and Cannes (France) ; also the new variety atro-purpurea of Paludina 

 vivipara, found at Pont-y-pool, Monmouthshire, by Mr. E,. M. Lloyd, of 

 Birmingham, and first described by him in the " Quarterly Journal of 

 Conchology," published in Leeds by Mr. John W. Taylor. Mr. S. 

 Scholefield exhibited a snake of the common species, taken in 1867 near 

 Bradford, also several local plants — Glycyrrhiza glabra from Pontefract, 

 Lythrum Salicaria from wet ponds at Walton, and Tlialictrum flavum from 

 Boston Spa. Mr, John Grassham exhibited the egg of a woodcock, whigh 

 had bred this season in Stainbro' wood, near Bamsley, also several 

 lepidoptera — Sesia hemheciformis, S. apiformis, Macroglossa stellatarum, 

 Epione vespertaria, and larvse of Bomhyx Cynthia, and B. cecropia. 



224th Meeting, Sept. 5th, 1876, Mr. Thomas Tate in the chair.— ' 

 Several valuable donations to the library were announced, and thanks 

 voted to the donors. Mr. Charles H. Bothamley showed some minerals, 

 including Witherite (baric carbonate), fibrous and opaque ; the same, 

 crystalhne and nearly transparent, from Lothersdale ; Barytes or heavy 

 spar (baric sulphate), from Patterdale ; Quartz (silica) crystallised, from 

 Cumberland ; and milk-white quartz (opaque and amorphous) from 

 Queensland. Minerals were also brought by Mr. Henry Pollard, 

 including quartz crystals, from Wheal Uny, St. Ives ; various copper 

 ores, as redruthite, from Wheal Bassett, and nail-headed copper ore from 

 St. Ives ; Iron pyrites from Dolcoarth and Carnbrea ; wolfram from East 

 Pool ; and chalcedony from Pednan-drea : all collected in Cornwall by 

 Mr. Edward A. Moore. Mr. Henry Crowther brought Carlina vulgaris 

 from Wentbridge, and three species of Sigillaria ; 8. organum from 

 Altofts, near Normanton, S. tessellata, from Shipley, and S. alternans 

 from the Barnsley coal-measures. Mr. Thos. Tate showed the " locastj" 

 taken at Thornbury, near Bradford, and reported in the local newspapers 

 about the 24th of August. 



225th Meeting, Sept. 12th. Mr. James Abbott, vice-president, in the 

 chair. A number of valuable donations to the library from kindred 

 societies were announced, and thanks voted to the donors. Mr. Thomas 

 Fairley, F.R.S.E., F.C.S., public analyst to the borough of Leeds, then 

 delivered an interesting lecture on "The New Theory in Chemistry," 

 illustrated by experiments and apparatus. He referred to the vague notions 

 relating to the constitution of matter, found in the writings of many 

 ancient and modern philosophers, and showed how in recent times the mole- 

 cular theory has been generally adopted. He described the proofs in favour 



