Diary. —Meetings of Societies. 



June 1. Cambridge Entomological Society— Excursion to Wicken Fen. 

 ,, 4. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Club. Liversedge Naturalists'. Leeds 



Naturalists' Club, &c. ^ 

 ,, 6. Yorkshire College Students' Association at Leeds. 

 „ 8. Huddersfield Naturalists'. 



,, 10. Whit-Monday — Yorkshire Naturalists' Union — -Excursion to Brough 

 Tea, at Station Hotel, 4 p.m. ; Sections at 5 p.m. ; General 

 Meeting at 6 p.m.: — II. Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., Chairman. Local 

 Secretary, H. Franklin Parsons, M.I)., F.G-.S., Goole. 



,, 11. Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. York and District Field Naturalists' 

 —Excursion to Strensall Common from York Station, at 1 p.m. 



„ 12. York and District Naturalists' Field Club. ' 



,, 13. Yorkshire College Students' Association, at Leeds— Paper on 

 "Aquara" — Mr. M. A. Brigg. Conchological Society of Gi"eat 

 Britain and Ireland, at Leeds. - 



,, 14. Huddersfield Scientific Club. 



,, 17. Leeds Geological Association, Annual Meeting. 

 18. Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. 



,, 20. Noi-th Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club, Excursion to Bridg- 

 worth. — Leader, Mr. J. Ward. 



„ 21. Yorkshire College Students' Association, Annual Meeting. 



,, 24. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society, Huddersfield 

 Naturalists' — Paper : " Commercial Uses of Lichens." — J. 

 Mackenzie. - 



,, 25. Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Asspciation — Paper by Mr. 

 John Garbutt. 



,, 27. Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 



Books, &c.. Received. — Midland Naturalist (May), American Journal of 

 Microscopy (April), Science Gossip (May). 



Communications Receiyed from S. D. Bairstow, F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S., 

 J. H. Threlfall, H. F. Parsons, M.D., F.G.S., and others. 



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