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Tortula unguiculata (fr.), T. fallax (fr.), T. Imvipila, Grimmia apocarpa 

 (fr.), Bryum carneum, Fissidens taxifoliiis, Hypnum triquetrum, molluscum, 

 striatum, filicinum, splendevis, ruscifolium, and lutescens, and Plagiochila 

 asplenioides. Eight lichens, among them Ramalina fastigiata (fr.), and 

 Physcia pulverulenta. Two algse, Batrachospermum moniliformey and 

 Coccochloris rivularis ; and one fungus, Morchella esculenta. — H, Franklin 

 Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club, — Meeting May 11th, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, president, in the chair. — Arrangements having been made for 

 the excursion to Hillhouse and Deighton on the following day, Mr. Geo. 

 Brook recorded the occurrence of the common tern in the town, flying 

 about the river Colne that day. Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited larvse of 

 Plusia V-aureum. Mr. Geo. Brook, bred specimens of lodis vernaria 

 and Ligdia adustata. Mr. S. L. Mosley, butterflies mounted entire for 

 the oxy-hydrogen microscope. The meeting closed with a conversation, 

 on the curious fact of sparrows eating the yellow flowered crocuses, and 

 totally refusing the purple flowered ones ; a subject being now so 

 energetically discussed in " Nature." 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly meeting 

 30th April, in Brown's Museum, Liverpool, Mr. Capper, the president, 

 in the chair. — Mr. Nicholas Cooke, the vice-president, read a paper 

 respecting the locality of Nyssia zonaria. The meeting then formed 

 into a conversazione, and several of the members exhibited objects of 

 interest. — W. H. Mountfield, Hon. Sec. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 243rd 

 meeting, April I7th, Mr. Wm. Nelson, V.P., in the chair. — Mr. W. B. 

 Turner showed with the microscope a species of discoid diatom (marine) 

 from Weymouth, much resembling a small Heliopelta. Mr. S. Schole- 

 field, Helleborus viridis from Kiddal Lane, near Leeds. Mr. Charles 

 Smethurst, shells, eggs, and larvse, also male specimens of Pieris brassica, 

 having certain portions of the wing denuded of scales. Mr. James E,. 

 Murdoch showed a number of West Indian shells ; Mr. J ohn W. Taylor 

 Helix hmmastoma from Ceylon, remarking on its great variability ; H. 

 Barhadensis, West Indies, and E. testudinalis, Madeira, showing the 

 connection of the two faunas ; H. planata, var. erythostoma from Morocco, 

 with remarks on its serving as food for certain species of carabideous 

 beetles ; and several beautifully-marked Helices from the Philippine 

 Islands ; Mr. Wm. Nelson the palate of Cydostoma elegans, and an 

 example of Helix hispida, var. albida, from Seacroft. A very large 

 number of shells, collected at the Union meeting at Pontefract, were 

 shown by Messrs. W. Nelson, H. Crowther, and H. Pollard. 



244th Meeting, April 24th, Mr. Henry Pocklington, F.R.M.S., V.P., 

 in the chair. — Mr. John Grassham noted that a green woodpecker was 

 seen by Mr. Matthew Taylor, near Arthington, on the 15th of April. 



