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Venusia camhiicaria, Selenia lunaria, Venila maculata, Ennychia octo- 

 maculata, &c., &c. Mr. Varley, E. octomaculata from Hebden Bridge, 

 and various orthoptera and neuroptera, from America. Two papers were 

 then read — the first by Mr. Joseph French on "Hybridism," in which 

 he detailed some extraordinary results from the crossings of various 

 species of plants and animals ; the second by the chairman, " On the 

 occurrence of Golias Edusa in Yorkshire, in June, 1877." 



Leeds Conchological Club. — Readers, by referring to page 126, vol. 

 II. of the Naturahst," will find an interesting account of the above 

 society. The 150 " Yorkshire Locality Records " there mentioned have 

 increased to 487, and the 66 species and varieties to 103, betraying, 

 although no mention has been made for some time of the doings of the 

 club, anything but a quiescent condition, and not only has this part been 

 pushed forward, but microscopical demonstrations of the functions of the 

 cilia of the mussel and the construction of the lingual ribbons of molluscs, 

 have been made. Of British shells occurring outside Yorkshire, and 

 foreign ones, the exhibits have been large ; of Helices, above 81 species 

 have been shown ; and of other genera a fair proportion, many being 

 worthy of special mention, did not space forbid ; we cannot omit, how- 

 ever, Olausilia hiplicata, var. Nelsoni, collected and exhibited by Mr. J. 

 W. Taylor, and named by Dr. Jeffrey thus in honour of Mr. Wm. ISTelson, 

 the president of the club. A loss too has been felt by the resignation of 

 Mr. W. D. Roebuck as secretary, who, from want of time, felt himself 

 inadequate to attend to his duties. Mr. Hy. Crowther was elected in his 

 stead. Another important item in the programme and progress of the 

 club has been a division of the meeting night, — giving part of the evening 

 to locality records and exhibition of shells of any kind, and part to the 

 reading of papars on genera or species of shells. On May 31st, the first 

 of these was read by Mr. Hy. Crowther, on " Bulimus acuUis," illustrated 

 by examples gathered by himself in Dublin. On June 14th, Mr. J. W, 

 Taylor read a paper on Helix caperata in this excellent paper the 

 author set forth the experience of himself and others in the resolution of 

 this species into the types and varieties of many authors, illustrating by 

 means of maps its distribution, and by drawings the arrangement of the 

 jaw. On July 12th, the president read" a paper on " Limncea peregra.'''' 

 When it is remembered that he is an authority on Limrmidce, the members 

 naturally looked forward to an excellent paper— an expectancy which 

 was fully realised ; the habits, distribution, and variations were strikingly 

 pictured ; he exhibited no less than 84 tablets of Limncea peregra, and 

 several other species approaching it in form, referring to them constantly 

 in elucidation of his theories and remarks. — Hv. Crowther, Hon, Sec. 



Lancashire Working Men's Botanical Association. — Eighth annual 

 meeting — There was a large attendance of representatives from the 

 various societies belonging to the association, Mr. R. H. Alcock occupied 

 the chair, and in a brief a,ddress said the work of the Lancashire botanists 



