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meeting, at the invitation of Mr. Littlewood, most of the members 

 proceeded to his house to examine the breeding tanks, the whole working 

 of which he explained. They were on the circulatory system, and with 

 close attention he had been unusually successful in hatching and rearing 

 fish, and had turned some thousands of trout into the Corporation 

 reservoirs at Blackmoor-foot and Deerhill. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly 

 meeting 29th April, Mr. S. J. Capper, president, in the chair. — The 

 president read a paper entitled "Reminiscences of Lepidoptera-coUecting 

 35 years ago," in which he contrasted the difficulties then existing with 

 the facilities now pertaining to the pursuit of entomology. He com- 

 mented on the literature of the science, then and at present, compared 

 the methods of capturing and preserving specimens, and related his early 

 experience as an entomologist. An interesting letter from Mr. E. 

 Dukinfield Jones, of San Paulo, addressed to Mr. T. J. Moore, giving 

 an account of his captures of larvae and lepidoptera in the Brazils, was 

 read. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association.— 286th 

 meeting, April 80th, Mr. Edward Thompson in the chair. — Lecture by 

 Mr. James Abbott, on " The Changes undergone by an Ovum." 



287th Meeting, May 7th, Mr. Samuel Jefferson, F.C.S. (v. p.) in the 

 chair. — Mr. Smethurst presented to the local collection Armley specimens 

 of Eii/pitliecia venosata, and Mr. Nelson gave Bulimus ohscurus from Went 

 Vale, Clausilia rugosa from Stapleton Park, and 0. laminata from Little 

 Smeaton ; Mr. J. W. Fawcett exhibited Paris quadrifolia from Harro- 

 gate ; Mr. J. W. Westmoreland, A.R.S.M., sent a frond of Asplenium 

 viride from Twynangwynion, Breconshire ; Mr. C. H. Bothamley showed 

 bornite and copper glance, from Norway ; spiegeleisen containing 15 per 

 cent, of manganese, &c. Mr. Charles Smethurst stated that he saw 

 swifts and swallows on the 29th April. Mr. F. G. S. Rawson reported 

 (by letter) willow wren on April 10th, and wheatear a few days previous. 

 A coot was killed near his place the week previous, for which deed a 

 summons to the West Riding Court at Halifax was issued. 



288th Meeting, May 14th, Mr. C. H. Bothamley in the chair.— Mr. 

 Henry PockHngton, F.R.M.S., gave a lecture on "Some uses of the 

 Telephone." — Wm. Denison Roebugk, Sec. 



Stainland Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting at Burwood, 

 Mr. E. Garside in the chair. — Messrs. C. C. Hanson and W. H. Stott 

 placed a large number of botanical specimens on the table ; Mr. Fakes 

 showed an adder from Suffolk ; Mr. B. Garside, eggs of the blue tit. 

 The arrivals of summer migrants were given in by the members as 

 follows : — Wheatear April 4th, Ray's wagtail 14th, willow wren 14th, 

 tree pipit 13th, sand martin 16th, swallow 21st, cuckoo 23rd, lesser 



