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The Natuealist. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly (Jan.) 

 meeting, Mr. S. J. Capper, president, in the chair. — The president drew 

 attention to and shortly reviewed a new work on the larvae of the British 

 lepidoptera and their food-plants, by Owen J. Wilson, Esq., illustrated 

 by life-size figures painted by Mrs. Wilson. A paper was communicated 

 by Mr. E. Birchall, F.L.S., on " Arctia luhricipeda," aitev which the 

 meeting resolved itself into a conversazione. 



Selby Naturalists' Society. — Annual soiree, 17th Jan. — This was a 

 most successful meeting, both in exhibits and attendance. The president, 

 Mr. J. Atkinson, after a few introductory remarks, introduced the various 

 gentlemen who had promised to address the meeting, amongst whom Dr. 

 Gibson gave an address on "A piece of Flint — what does it mean?' 

 Rev. J. Spink discoursed upon and exhibited Prof. Bell's Telephone, and 

 Mr. Hunter, F.C.S., explained the theory of the Spectroscope, with some 

 brilliant experiments. The exhibition consisted of four classes : I. The 

 industrial products of the town ; II. Antiquity and works of art, &c. ; 

 III. Natural History ; IV. Scientific instruments : the whole of which 

 were well represented, but to particularise would require too much space, 

 and to select would perhaps be invidious when all were good. 



Stainland Naturalists' Society. — Ninth annual meeting and soiree, 

 at Burwood, 7 th January, the president in the chair. — Mr. Fakes shewed 

 a female specimen of the merlin hawk, shot on Greetland Moor. Mr. 

 W. H. Stott read the balance-sheet, which showed a number of new 

 books added to the library, eleven new members enrolled during the 

 year, and a small balance in hand — thus proving the Society to be in a 

 progressive condition. Mr. Garside was re-elected president, Messrs. 

 Smith and Calvert vice-presidents, and W. H. Stott secretary. 



York and District Field Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 

 Jan. 9th, Mr. Wm. Chapman in the chair. — Mr. W. Simmons exhibited 

 a box of ColeophorcB and cases in very fine order ; Mr. Ripley a fine 

 specimen of the bittern {Ardea stellaris), shot at Castle Howard on Dec. 

 26th, also a specimen of the marsh harrier (Falco rufus), shot near 

 Pocklington in Septemb«K^last ; Mr. Jackson some fine varieties of 

 Liparis dispar, JBeliothis armigera, Lemiodes pvlveralis, a very dark 

 Liparis monacha, Sciaphila octomamlana, and Catoptria juUana ; the 

 hon. secretary, Mr. Prest, some fine specimens of Cleora glahraria, and 

 the rare butterfly Lycoena Acis, taken in 1877 in Wales : Meliana flammea, 

 Tryphmna subsequa, a specimen of the very rare Pachnobia alpi7ia, taken 

 in Scotland ; Teniocampa gothicina, and Dianthcecia irregularis. The 

 secretary read a letter from M. A. B. Farn, of London, asking the 

 Society to co-operate with the committee of the first Great National 

 Entomological Exhibition, to be held during the present month in the 

 Royal Westminster Aquarium, and after some discussion it was agreed 

 by some of the members to be exhibitors. 



