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The Naturalist. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Aug. 20th, the president 

 in the chair. — Mr. Jagger exhibited Spiranthes cestivalis, Scutellaria minor j 

 Wahlenbergia hederacea, and Rypericum elodes', from the New Forest. Mr. 

 Andrews shewed from Gordale, Leonotodon pratensis, Thalictrum monta- 

 num, and Viola lutea. Mr. Hebblethwaite read a paper on his visit to 

 Monk's Wood, and the neighbourhood, at the same time shewing his 

 captures, among which were A. galathea and N. JBellmanni, the last being 

 new to Monk's Wood according to Mr. Porritt. The following new 

 district records were shewn : — M. maura, Saltaire, by Mr. Lambert ; 

 M. literosa, by Mr. Andrews. The president showed a large number of 

 insects from the New Forest. 



Meeting Sept. 3rd, the president in the chair. — The president gave a 

 lecture on his recent tour in the New Forest and the fen country, which 

 was chiefly devoted to entomology. Mr. Soppitt then gave a paper on a 

 short visit to Southport, devoted to botany and entomology. Mr. Gilliver 

 showed a number of shells, including Convolvulus denticulatus and Helix 

 arhustorum, var. alpina, frem Scarbro' ; Mr. Carter, a series of Ahraxas 

 grossulariata, including the light and dark varieties figured in " New- 

 man's Moths." 



Meeting Sept. 17th, Mr. Firth in the chair. — Mr. H. Hebblethwaite 

 showed Z. minus, var. mibigena, received from Mr. Birchall ; he also 

 showed, along with Mr. Starling, A . suffusa, new to the district ; Mr. 

 Andrews, the larvae of 0. hidentata ; Mr. West, Rosa Sahini, from 

 Roundhay, Potentilla Norvegica from Armley, Ulex nanus (Forster), 

 from Doncaster, Senecio saracenicus from Meanwood, and viviparous 

 states of Triticum caninum, Juncus lamprocarpus (Ehrh.) and Festuca 

 ovina, from Shipley, Riccall, and Whernside respectively. — Wm. West, 

 Secretary. 



HcTDDERSEiELD Naturalists' SOCIETY. — Meeting August 31st, Mr. J. 

 Mackenzie, v. p., in the chair. — A monograph of the British Copepoda 

 (Ray Soc.) and the transactions of the Hull Philosophical Society, were 

 added to the library. The following specimens were collected and sent 

 for exhibition by Mrs. J. Tindall : — Hematite iron ore from the boulder 

 clay in the clifi" at Bridlington, and the marine shells Trochus maculata, 

 Buccinum undatum, and var. contrarius — the latter very rare — from 

 Flamborough. Mr. Mackenzie said that hematite iron was now largely 

 used to imitate gems, in brooches, &c. , some of the best kinds being 

 hardly distinguishable, even by a practised eye, from real stones. 



Meeting Sept. 16th, Mr. Wm. Nettleton, president, in the chair. — A 

 large number of plants were exhibited by Messrs. J. Shaw and James 

 Sykes, and were named by Mr. Shaw, assisted by Mr. John Bartlam, 

 the rarest being a specimen of Delphimum consolida from the " tipping " 

 at Carr Pitt ; Mr. Mackenzie exhibited and named the following fungi 

 from Airedale : — Phallus im2mdicus, Cantharellus aurantiacus, Marasmius 



