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The N.^turaltst. 



310th Meeting, Oct. 8th, the president in the chair. — A further dona- 

 tion to the library from ]Mr. Wesley (Morris's Naturahst, 19 numbers), 

 Tvas acknowledged by vote of thanks. jVIt. Walter Raine brought eggs of 

 the collared pratincole, ruff, dunlin, oystercatcher, and varieties of those 

 of the curlew, common snipe, and thick-kneed plover. Eggs of other birds 

 were shown by Mr. Henry Marsh, and common shells from Lincolnshire 

 by Mr. C. H. Bothamley. Mr. W. E. Clarke showed Yorkshire speci- 

 mens of the knot and sanderling, and made some interesting remarks on 

 their occurrence in the arctic regions. In microscopy INIr. Saynor showed 

 scalariform tissue of fern, cornea of dragon-fly, section of coal and poly- 

 cistinoe ; ]\Ir. F. W. Edwards, cuticles of tea, ivy, bean, &c., and diatoms 

 (Cocconeis) ; Mr. James Abbot, sections of eyes of lobster and dragon- 

 fly ; Mr. W. Barwell Turner, parasites of beetle, bee, goose, fowl, 

 partridge, heron, tortoise, bat, boar, man, &c., fresh-water algse {Braper- 

 ncddia plumosa, Batradiospermum moniliforme, Cladophora glomerata, 

 Micrasterias rotata, Volvox and Vavxheria), and marine algse {Ceramium 

 acmithonatum, Dasija coccinea, Callithamnion roseiim, and Mesogloia 

 Griffithsiana) ; Mr. Emsley, sections of stems of Eqidsetum, willow, 

 Solanum, &c. Entomological exhibits were made by various members. 



311th Meeting, jMt. Edward Thompson in the chair. — INIr. William 

 Howgate, v.p., read a paper upon Natural Objects used as Symbols in 

 the Arts." — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sec. 



Statntland Natubalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 7th October, at 

 Burwood, the president in the chair. The following "specimens were 

 put on the table by Messrs. Edwards and Hanson : — Lamium purpiireum, 

 Hamulus lupulus, Medicago macidata, Narthecium ossifragum, &c. ; 

 by Mr. S. Peel, a blue mountain parrot. — W. H. Stott, Sec. 



York axd District Field Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Oct. 9th, 

 INIr. M. Smith in the chair. — Mr. G. Bacon exhibited a specimen of the 

 kittiwake {Lams tridadylus), killed with a boat "hook near Lendal 

 Bridge, on the 20th September last, also egg of the same ; Mr. Ripley, a 

 splendid variety of the grouse {Tetrao Scoticus), the coloration of feathers 

 being lightish grey and spotted with dark brown ; a specimen also of that 

 very rare bird the solitary snipe, shot by Mr. W. Rudston Read, at 

 Hayton, near Pocklington, which will be added to the Read collection in 

 the York Museum ; a male merlin {Falco cesalo7i), shot near Acomb by 

 Capt. Lees, on the 2Tth of September ; a pied land-rail {Gallinula crex), 

 shot near York : and a buff-coloured variety of the greenfinch ( Fringilla 

 chloHs), shot at Londesboro' ; Mr. Postill, Scotosia duUtata and 

 flaviciiida ; the hon. secretary, Mr. Prest, a long and fine series of 

 varieties of Cidaria immanata, taken in several localities near York and 

 in Sherwood Forest ; three curious forms of Bomhyx calluncE, bred at 

 Leeds ; a long series of Tliera firmaria, taken last month near York ; 

 Konagria Hellmanii from Wicken Fen, taken by Mr. Porritt ; bred 

 specimens of Tethea retusa, and a series of Agrophila sulphuratis. 



