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argentea, Erythma pulchella, and TrifoUum fragiferiim. Mr. West 

 shewed white Orchis pyramidalis from Ribblesdale ; white-flowered Sol- 

 arium dulcamara, Claytonia alsmoides from Bakewell. 



Meeting, August 6th, Mr. Firth in the chair. — Mr. B. Spencer shewed 

 a fine tuft of Parnassia pcdustris from Buxton ; Mr. Firth, Triphcena 

 janthimi, new to the district ; IMr. S. Crowther, some good fossils from 

 Ribblesdale ; Mr. Andrews, Honcheneya peploides, Eryngium maritimum, 

 white-G-oweved Scab iosa arvoids, double-flowered Polentilla reptans, &c., 

 from Morecambe ; Mr. West, Siumlatifolium, Ononis spinosa, and Allium 

 Scorodopramm from Selby ; Hypericum elodes and Gentiana Pneumonanthe 

 from Riccall ; (Eiianthe lacheiudii, (E. Jistidosa, i^ium angustifolium, 

 &c., from Hambleton. — Wm. West, Sec. 



Hqddersfield Naturalists' Society. — Meeting August 3rd, Mr. J. 

 French, v. p., in the chair. — The chairman exhibited a fine specimen of 

 the stag's-hom fern, and one of Humnlus hipulus (male), from a hop 

 garden in Kent, and explained that though the female plant was so 

 common, the male is very rare. Mr. John Shaw named a collection of 

 about 80 plants exhibited by himself, from Askern, IVIr. Mackenzie from 

 Wales, and Mr. Bould from this district, including Sonchus oleraceun, 

 Achillea ptarmica, Oicutavirosa, Plantago coronopus, Campanula glomcrata, 

 Chlora perfoliata, Euphorbia exigua,- Euphrasia Odontites, Brachypodium 

 sylvaticum, B. pinnatum, Stachys sylvaticum, Asplenium septentrionale, 

 and Polypodinm cambricum, the latter hitherto for some time behoved to 

 be extinct, but now re-discovered by Mr. Mackenzie to be growing ui 

 North Wales. Mr. Sj^iegel gave a lucid description of the finding of 

 meteoric stones, some of them very minute, in mud dredged from the 

 bottom of the ocean. Mr. Spiegel also named the following crystals, 

 exhibited by Mr. Mackenzie, from Festiniog, North Wales, viz : — Quartz 

 or berg crystal, white amythest and tinted ditto, and also kindly promised 

 to obtain the names of the others, remarking that the study of mineralogy 

 was, except by a few, very much neglected, and regretted that his own 

 pursuits would not allow him time to take it up, as, from what he knew 

 of it, it would repay anyone who would go thoroughly into it. Mr. 

 Spiegel then delivered a lecture on "Fermentation," which was of great 

 interest. — C. H. Bould, Hon. Sec. [We would suggest to the secretary 

 the propriety of referring plants, &c. , to their proper districts in future 

 reports, as by being mixed up in this manner they are very misleading. — 

 Eds. Nat.] 



Huddersfield Scientific Club. — Meeting August 9th, Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, president, in the chair. — The president showed living larvae of 

 Papilio Machaon and Simyra venosa ; also a box of imagos, including 

 Nonagria Helhnanni, Leucania phragmitidis, Melianaflammea, Ptdodontis 

 palpina, Eudorea lineolalis, Syria auroraria, Nascia cilialis, and Tortrix 

 dumetana, with the exception of two species all taken by himself on a 

 recent excursion to Wicken Fen. He also showed larva of Euclidia 



