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occurrence of Golias Edusa near his residence at Primrose Hill, on the 5th 

 inst. In conchology, Mr. John Conacher shewed Helix pygmea, H. 

 pulchella, H. virgata, H. rotundata, H. hispida, H. nemoralis, Zonites 

 nitididus, Z. alliarius, Clausilia rugosa, Cochlicopa lubrica, Pupa 

 umbilicata, Bulimus ohscurus, Sphoerium corneum, Bithynia tentaculata, 

 Limnoea truncatula, var., elegans, all from Pontefract : H. nemoraliSf 

 var., hortensis, H. cantiana, H. rufescens, H. Mspida, E. rotundata^ 

 H. ericetorum, H. lapicida, Zonites glaber, Clausilia rugosa, var., tumi- 

 dula, C. laminata, Cochlicopa luhrica, Cyclostoma elegans, Physa hypnorum, 

 Limncea peregra, all from Wetherby. Mr. H. G. Brierley, a box of 

 various marine shells from Redcar ; also a species of fossil Anadonta 

 from the same locality. In Botany, Mr. James Varley, Saxifraga 

 Andrewsii, Convallaria majalis, Lastrcea spinulosa, Mnium undidatum. 

 Mr. Mosley exhibited, under the microscope some nicely mounted slides 

 of Acari from meal, and from a butterfly's wing. The President read a 

 paper on " Some forms of Tortida^^ which he illustrated with beautiful 

 microscopic sections of Tortida unguiculata, T. fallax, T. rigidula, T, 

 recurvifolia, T. spadicea, T. cylindrica (insulana), and T. vinealis. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 248th 

 meeting. May 22nd, Mr. S. Jefferson, F.O.S., V.P., in the chair.— Mr. 

 W. H. Taylor presented to the local collection a locust (Pachytylus cine- 

 rascens), taken several years ago in Leeds, and Trichiosoma lucorum, 

 common in the Meanwood Valley, north of Leeds ; and two specimens of 

 Cimbex, from Bramham Park. Mr. W. H. Hay, several nests. The 

 chairman showed under the microscope two samples of water taken from 

 near Leeds and Church Fenton : the latter was remarkably full of an 

 interesting desmid, Closterium lunula, in the tips of which the Brownian 

 movement of the granules were very clearly seen. Mr. S. S. Peat showed 

 Eydra viridis, found in a ditch near Newark. With the microscope, Mr. 

 F. Emsley showed stained sections of beech and spurge laurel, and a bee 

 parasite ; and Mr. Edward Thompson, Pleurosigma formosum and P. 

 angulatum. From Wetherby district Mr. W. Denison Roebuck brought 

 Sialis cutaria and Paphidia ophiopsis, two common neuroptera ; Mr. J. 

 R. Murdoch, Clausilia laminata, found in a wood near Flint Mill ; Mr. 

 S. S. Peat, entomostraca ; Mr. Edward E. Prince, dragon-fly larvae, 

 Planorhis vortex and iJaplmia pulex ; and Mr. Henry Crowther showed 

 specimens of coleoptera (see list, p. 176). There was also exhibited on 

 behalf of Mr, F. G. S. Rawson, of Halifax, some bulbs of frogbit ( Hydro- 

 charis morsus-rance) of which about 150 had been taken from the crop of a 

 wild duck, and an article on the subject in the " Country " of March 1st, 

 1877/ was read. A number of notes on the birds of the Halifax district 

 was read, also from Mr. Rawson, assisted by the Stainland Naturalists' 

 Society ; the following dates of arrival of migrants were given : — Wheat- 

 ear, March 21st ; sand martin and ring ouzel, April 7th ; Ray's wagtail 

 and willow wren, 8th ; stonechat, 15th ; redstart, 23rd ; tree pipit, 24th ; 



