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The Natuealist. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 304th 

 meeting, Aug. 27th, Mr. Jas. Abbott, v. p. in the chair. Mr. J. R. Mur- 

 doch exhibited a number of well-mounted mosses ; Mr. James Reid 

 showed a number of very fine shells, amongst which were some good 

 specimens of Cyprma, Conus, Valuta, Oliva, &c. Worthy of special 

 mention were very fine MiU-a papalis, M. episcopalis, Cardium CarcUssa, 

 and Solarium perspectivum. Mr. James Fogg showed a fine female 

 specimen of Sirex gigas, and Mr. Samuel Jefferson, F. 0. S. , two living 

 females of Sirex juvencus (but differing from the usual description of that 

 species in the antennae being black and not yellow, and in this respect 

 agreeing with >S'. melanocerus of Thomson), and a piece of the larch timber 

 which they had bored^ from a colhery near Barnsley. Slides of various 

 marine polyzoa were brought by Mr. W. Barwell Turner, and other micro- 

 scopic objects by Mr. F. Emsley. Eggs of the Bohemian waxwing, grass- 

 hopper warbler, melodious willow wren, hawfinch and cirl bunting, and 

 beautiful varieties of those of the black-headed bunting and red-backed 

 shrike were shown by Mr. Walter Raine. Other specimens were shown 

 by various members. 



305th Meeting, Sept. 23rd, Mr. Benjamin Saynor in the chair. — Mr. 

 Edward Thompson read a paper on " Methods of Reasoning in Science." 



306th Meeting, Sept. 10th, Mr. Samuel Jefferson, F.C.S., v. p., in 

 the chair. — He exhibited various objects from his marine aquaria, 

 including a Mytilus edulis, on which was fixed a cirriped, and upon that 

 in turn an anemone two months old, also other anemones, some with the 

 tentacles just developing : when very young it is noteworthy that the 

 tentacles are ciliated. Mr. W. Raine showed eggs of snowy owl, white 

 owl, tawny owl, little owl, great black woodpecker, passenger pigeon, 

 hoopoe, and raven. A number of eggs of commoner species were shown 

 by Mr. Henry Marsh. Mr. John Grassham showed imagos of Liparis 

 solids (Meanwood, June 30th), Ennomos erosaria (taken at the Bishop's 

 Wood meeting of the Union, August 5th), and E. tiliaria fMeanwood, 

 August 18th) ; larvae of Fygcsra bucephala, Orgyia pudihunda, and Noto- 

 donta camelina, from Bishop's Wood ; a very large female Sirex gigas, 

 taken in Wade Street, Leeds ; three spiders — Epeira quadrata (female), 



E. diadema (male and female), and E. smlaris (female) — from Bishop's 

 Wood ; and five species of shells. Mr. W. Denison Roebuck showed 

 specimens of Cionus scropJmilarice and its curious cocoons, which were 

 found by Mr. S. L. Mosley, of Huddersfield, on figwort, in the larval 

 and pupal states, at Muker in Swaledale. Mr. E. C. Rye has confirmed 

 the name. Other exhibits, principally microscopic, were made by Messrs. 



F. W. Edwards, F. Emsley, B. Saynor, and W. Barwell Turner. A 

 letter from the Town Clerk was read, giving permission for the members 

 to investigate the fauna and flora of Roundhay Park, and to collect 

 therein natural history specimens and microscopic objects ; a vote of 

 thanks to the Corporate Property Committee of the Leeds Town Council 

 was thereupon passed. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Secretary. 



