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had no more to fear in this country than from the locust. The lecture 

 was illustrated by a number of diagrams, specimens British and foreign, 

 and microscopic slides. — H. Franklin Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. - The annual dinner and meeting were 

 held at the Queen Hotel, on December 8th, the president, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, in the chair. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as 

 follows: — President, Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. ; vice-president, Mr. 

 Joseph French ; secretary, Mr. George Brook ter. ; librarian, Mr. S. D. 

 Bairstow. The report showed a satisfactory balance in favour of the 

 club. The remainder of the evening was spent in conversation and 

 discussion as to the best methods of working so as to promote the interests 

 of the club. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 271st 

 Meeting, Nov. 20th, the president, Mr. James Abbott, in the chair. — 

 Mr. Henry Crowther showed a Leeds specimen of Limax flavus, and drew 

 attention to the minute parasites {Fhilodromus limacnm) which infested 

 it, running in and out of the slug's breathing orifice. Mr. John W. 

 Taylor exhibited Belix incarnata. The president showed with the 

 microscope the otoliths of SphcErium lacustre. Insects were shown by Mr. 

 Chas. Smethurst, and Mr. F. Emsley exhibited under his microscope 

 various diatoms, Volvax glohator, and the ciliary action in the common 

 mussel {Mytilus edulis). 



272nd Meeting, Nov. 27th, the president in the chair. — Paper read : 

 "How to examine a plant microscopically." 



273rd Meeting, December 4th, the president in the chair. — Mr. W. 

 Nelson presented to the local collections specimens of SpJmrium rimcolou 

 and 8. ovale, from Frost Dam, near Leeds ; 8. corneum from the canal 

 near Wakefield ; and S. lacustre from Ferrybridge, and from Thome's 

 Farm, Osmondthorpe, near Leeds. Mr. John W. Taylor presented Helix 

 hortensis, H. hybrida, and H. cantiana, from near Boston Spa ; Balea 

 perversa, taken on walls north of Inglebro' ; Helix cantiana and Clausilia 

 rugosa, from the outskirts of Ripon ; 0. rugosa var. dubia, Buliminus 

 ohscurus, Pupa umbilicata, Helix rupestris, and H. lapicida, from West 

 Witton, Wensleydale. Mr. Taylor exhibited Lijmnoea stagnalis, var. 

 fragilis, from Folkestone ; Helix carthusiana from Lewes ; H. hybrida 

 from Folkestone, from Faversham in Kent, and from Bilston, near 

 Bath ; H. ligera from East Tennessee, and H. palUata, Say., from Lock 

 Haven, Pennsylvania. Mr. W. Nelson exhibited Sphcerium sh'iatinumy 

 Lam. , and S. securis, Prime, from Ann Arbor, Michigan ; S. sulcatum, 

 -Lam., from Wayne County, Mich. ; Valvata tricarinata, Say., from Erie 

 Canal, New York ; Bytliinia tentaculata from a pond at Alum Rock, 

 near Birmingham ; Limnea humilis, Say. , from Grand Rapids, Mich. ; 

 Planorbis campanulatus, Say., Detroit River, Mich. ; Goniobasis liviscens, 



