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Oambridge. Mr. J. W. Carter took a fine specimen of Anesopteryx 

 (Escularia on Feb. 18th. 



Meeting March. 6th, the president in the chair. — At the request of the 

 president, Mr. William Jagger made a few remarks on entomology, 

 giving some useful hints on the collecting and preserving of lepidoptera. 



Beighton ajstd Sussex Natural History Society. — Meeting Mar. 8th, 

 the president, Mr, G. D. Sawyer, in the chair. — Mr. Herbert Goss, 

 F.L.S, read a most interesting and valuable paper on ''The Insect 

 Fauna of. the Tertiary Period." After reviewing at some length the 

 various writings, books, and papers published on the subject, the author 

 proceeded to enumerate the various strata of ihe tertiary period, and 

 detailed first the insect remains found in the British area, and then those 

 in foreign areas — the coleoptera, orthoptera, neuroptera, hymenoptera, 

 and lepidoptera, with the number of species in each, and in many 

 instances giving details of the various species, concluding with the forms 

 found in amber. The paper was a most exhaustive one, and of such 

 great interest both to geologists and lepidopterists that we regret we 

 cannot give a longer abstract — indeed if we had the M. S. we should 

 be glad to publish the paper in full, so that the interesting details might 

 be more extensively known. 



Bury Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, Mr. Waddington in 

 the chair. — Mr. Drake exhibited a finely-mounted specimen of the short- 

 eared owl, shot near Woolfold in November last ; Mr. Robert Kay a box 

 of insects from Brighton, Sussex, containing L. Polyommata, A. australis^ 

 P. empyrea, A. prodromaria, and a case showing the life-history of 

 several other lepidoptera ; Mr. Jackson E. Knautiata and a curious beetle 

 taken among logwood at Hinds. The secretary then read Mr. Alcock's 

 paper on " Early Spring Flowers," which was illustrated by a number of 

 specimens ; and Mr. Wilson's paper, " A ramble in Yorkshire," was 

 announced for next meeting. 



Goole Scientific Society. — A popular lecture in connection with this 

 Society was given on Feb. 28th, by Mr. J. S. Harrison, of Hull, and was 

 well attended. The subject was ''The Arctic Regions." The lecturer 

 traced the history of Arctic discovery from the reign of Henry YIII. to 

 the late expedition under Sir George Nares, and gave a summary of the 

 scientific results that had been achieved up to the present time. He then 

 exhibited with the magic lantern a series of views illustrating Arctic 

 scenery, life, and adventure. — H. Franklin Parsons. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting March 9th, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, president, in the chair. — Mr. G. T. Porritt presented to the 

 library the " Transactions " of the London Entomological Society for the 

 year 1876. A fine collection of mosses was exhibited by the chairman^ 

 chiefly received from Mr. George Davies, of Brighton. They included — 

 Gelieehia cataractarum {Barhula gigatvtea) from Yallais, B. nitida from 



