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The Naturalist. 



was one of great interest, not only in this neiglibourliood but througliovit 

 the kingdom. Some really good work had been done by them, and in 

 some respects it was of a rather different kind to the work accomplished 

 in years gone by, for now they had railways and every means of going 

 about the country. Great interest was now taken by local botanists in 

 the sedges, and although it was only three years since the seventh edition 

 of the London Catalogue was published, yet there had been since that 

 time a new one discovered {Carex ornithopoda), a specimen of which he 

 had in his herbarium, and which was given to him by a friend. Among 

 tlie plants exhibited were Qeranium pho&um, Hippuris vulgaris, Lignsticum 

 scoticum, Samhucus Ebulus, Pyrola rotmidifolia, Atropa Belladonna^ 

 Utricularia minor^ Hottonia palustriSy Glaux maritima^ Samolus Valerandi, 

 Ailosorus cri.s'pus, Asplenium lanceolatum, Lastrea thelypteris. 



\ Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 252nd 



* meeting, June 26th, Mr. John Grassham, V.P., in the chair. — Mr. H. 

 Pollard presented to the local collection three large specimens of Anodonta 

 cygyiea, from Shepherd's Pond, and three specimens of Unio tii7nidns, 

 var. radiata, from the Wakefield and Barnsley Canal at Agbrigg. Mr. 

 H. Crowther presented two beetles from Agbrigg, Clivina fossor and 

 Donacia sericea. Mr. W. Nelson exhibited Vertigo pygmcea, from Clapham 

 and Went Vale ; Carychiutn minimum y Flanorhis nautileus, and Physa 

 liypnoriim, from the Birmingham district ; and Planorbis dilatatus, from 

 the canal at Manchester. Mr. H. Pollard exhibited the shells collected 

 at Agbrigg on the occasion of the Union excursion to Nostell Priory. 

 Mr. J ohn Wm. Taylor showed a number of helices characterising difierent 

 regions, as Anastoma from Brazil ; Helix Waltoni from Ceylon ; H. sepid- 

 chralis from Madagascar ; H. Fraseri from Australia ; and H. xanthocheila, 

 H. aphrodite, H. pidcherrima, and H. iota., from the Philippines. He 

 also showed Scalaria pretiosa ; also a lively specimen of the stag beetle 

 {LucavMs cervus) from Hammersmith. Mr. John Grassham showed 

 iSaturnia pyri, Bombyx cynthia, and B. cecropia. Mr. Charles Smethurst 

 showed Dianthoecioj capsophila, from the Isle of Man, black varieties of 



A. betidaria, and a number of American lepidoptera, including Cynthia 

 Huntera, iJoMais archippus, Deiopeia putchella, Bombyx polyphemus, and 



B. cecropia, Mr. Benjamin Say nor showed under the microscope, with 

 dark ground illumination, Hydra viridis, reproducing itself by budding, 

 Mr. F. Emsley exhibited with the microscope a longitudinal section of a 

 piece of oak of immense size, which was found the previous week in 

 digging for the main sewer in Kirkstall Poad, Leeds. 



253uD Meeting, July 3rd, Mr. James Abbott, president, in the chair. 



• — Mr. Charles Smethurst exhibited Dolornedes mirabilis, a spider ; Cocci- 

 aella 22-punctata, and Strangalia armata, coleoptera from Bishop's Wood ; 

 also Ptinus crenatus, beetles from the Isle of Man . From a recent concho- 

 logical ramble on Cooper's Hill, Gloucestershire, Mr. Wm. Nelson brought 

 and exhibited Clausilia laminata, var. albida, and C. Uolphii, Lender tlie 



