Reports of Societies. 



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GooLE Scientific Association. — Meeting March 27th ^ Mr. E. Hunter, 

 F.C.S., the president, in the chair. — A paper was read by Dr. Parsons, 

 r.G.S., on Flowerless Plants and their Habitats."* 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting April 12th, Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, president, in the chair, — Mr. S. L. Mosley exhibited the 

 following interesting varieties of lepidoptera : — A bronze-green Zygcena 

 loniceroe from Wakefield ; a female Anthocharis cardamines with a 

 peculiar bright-red marking on the right fore wing ; and a hermaphrodite 

 Lycoena Alexis from Burton-on-Trent, and a Tmiiocampa munda, having 

 a conspicuous dark central band, taken by himself (and the only specimen 

 of the species observed) at Sherwood Forest several weeks ago. The 

 chairman showed living larvae of Selidosema plumaria, and Gnoplws 

 ohsGurata, reared from specimens taken in the New Forest. Mr. George 

 Brook recorded the following observations in the neighbourhood of 

 Carlisle, where he had recently been staying : — Cuckoo, April 5th ; 

 swallow, April 6th ; also 36 species of wild plants in bloom, including 

 Frimula veris, Saxifraga tridactylites, Fragaria vesca, Viola arve^isis, &c. 

 He also recorded that a pair of ravens had laid eggs in confinement — a^ 

 very unusual circumstance. Mr. C . P. Hobkirk exhibited the following 

 mosses : — Zygodon viridissimus, and a peculiar barren form of Ceratodon 

 purpureus, gathered by himself in Storthes Hall Lane, Huddersfield ; 

 Rhynchosteginm murale |3 complmiatum, gathered by the Rev. W. 

 Fowler near Liversedge ; and the following discovered by Dr. J. S. 

 Wesley, of Wetherby, which have already been recorded in the 

 Naturalist : — Hypnum cuspidatum /3 pungens, H. giganteum, H. ahieti- 

 num, H. scorpioides, and H. imponens — the two last from Strensall 

 Common, near York. Mr. George Brook then gave a most valuable 

 lecture on the " Salmon Disease in Cumberland," &c. (see page 145). 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting 25th 

 March, the president, Mr. S, J. Capper, in the chair. — Mr. Roxburgh 

 read a paper on " The unusual appearance of Phigalia pUosaria and 

 Hyhernia defoliaria.''^ The president drew attention to and exhibited the 

 first number of "Illustrations of Varieties of British Lepidoptera," being 

 a series of plates drawn by hand by Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Huddersfield. 

 Mr. Mosley adopted as his motto, " Labor ipse voluptas,^^ which explained 

 how such an invaluable work could be produced at so small a cost. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — Meeting 

 April 9th, Mr. John Grassham in the chair. — Mr. James Archer exhibited 

 a number of shells from near Derby, including Helix nemoralis^ H. alpes- 

 tris, Limncea peregra, L. stagnalis, L. auricidaria, Faludina vivipara, 

 Flanorbis corneals, F. vortex, F. carinatus, and TJnio pictorum. Mr. W. 

 E. Clarke showed a German specimen of the waxwing {Bomhy cilia garrula), 

 and nest and eggs of other species of birds. Mr. Henry Marsh showed a 

 mass of pike-spawn from Roundhay lake. 



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