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plants, among them Aquilegia vulgaris, Teesdalia nudicaulis, Prunus 

 Padus, Spi^'cea filipendula, Circcea lutetiana, Chcerophyllum Anthrisciis, 

 Valeriana dioica, Lamium Galeohdolon, Myosotis collina, Paris quadri- 

 folia, and Gonvallaria majalis : Twenty-five mosses and liverworts, 

 among them Grimmia apocarpa fr., Orthotrichum saxatile fr., and 

 Sypnum Schreberi, filicinum, triquetrurn,, albicans, and twelve lichens, 

 Parmelia caperata being one, and five fungi, among them Agaricus 

 clypeatus, and Polyporus abietinus. The only moUusca observed were 

 Clausilia laminata and Helix lapicida and rotundata. In an old quarry 

 of cornbrash close to Appleby Station, about six species of fossils were 

 obtained ; eight or nine kinds were got from stones (inferior oolite) on 

 the roadside, and about as many kinds in the lower lyas at the ironstone 

 pits at Frodingham. Individuals are, however, far more abundant here 

 than in the oolites. — [Corrections in report of last meeting : Terebratula 

 spinosa species not determined, Lima gigantea (small form) should be 

 L. bellula, Pinna mitis should be P. cuneata, Clausilia biplicata should be 

 C. nigricans.] — H. Franklin Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD Naturalists' SodETY. — Meeting June 2nd, the presi- 

 dent in the chair. — The following local plants were exhibited by Mr. J. 

 Mellor : — Oenanthe Lachenalii, Veronica serpyllifolia, Convallaria majalis, 

 Armoracia rusticana, Myr7'his odorata. By Mr. Mackenzie, the following 

 from Derbyshire :—Hutchinsia petraea (fl.), Bryonia dioica, Saxifraga 

 tridactylites (fl.), Veronica hederifolia (fl.), Draba verna (fl.), D. muralis 

 (fl.). In conchology were shown Clausilia laminata, H, nemoralis, H. 

 cantiana, H. rufescens. In geology Mr. Tindall exhibited the local speci- 

 mens : Sigillaria reniformis, &c. An excellent paper was read by Mr. 

 Geo. Jarmain, F.C.S., entitled " Iron pyrites, and the products obtained 

 therefrom." — J. Mackenzie, Hon. Sec. 



HuDDERSFiBLD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting June 8th, in the Museum, 

 South-street, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, president, in the chair. — The 

 exhibitions were numerous, and included the red- winged starling found 

 at Adwick-le- Street in March (see Naturalist, ii., 153), by Mr. S. L. 

 Mosley ; it was a very perfect and beautiful specimen, and only the 

 tenth recorded occurrence of the species in Britain. In lepidoptera, Mr. 

 G. T. Porritt showed a, specimen of Trachea piniperda he had found 

 several weeks previously, on some palings facing the sea on the south 

 shore at Southport. The locality seemed an extraordinary one, as he 

 could detect no fir or pine about the place. Mr, Porritt also stated he 

 had just added to his collection the specimen of Chcerocampa Nerii, taken 

 at Hemel Hempstead in October last. It was a fine large female moth, 

 but had lost a small piece from the left lower wing. Mr. James Varley 

 shewed a case of exotic species, including Papilio asteris, Danais Archip- 

 pus, with a fine yellow variety of the <same, Vanessa Antiopa, a Bombyx 

 allied to Neustria, a Colias, two species of Catacola allied to Nnpta, with 

 magenta and red underwings, &c., &c. Mr. S. L. Mosley recorded the 



