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The Naturalist. 



Boletus hadius, B. edulis and B. granulatns, Polyporus perennis, P. 

 annosus, P. velutinus and P. vaporarius, Craterellns sinuosus, Thelaphora 

 laciniata, Clavaria incequalis, Calocera viscosa, and Peziza ceruginosa. The 

 museum of the society was declared open : it is at present in its infancy, 

 but contains, among other objects, a herbarium of above 400 local species 

 of flowering plants, a collection of the land and fresh-water moUusks of 

 the neighbourhood, fossils, and a collection of articles of commerce 

 imported into Goole, presented by the Aire and Calder Navigation Oo. 

 A microscope has been purchased for the use of the society. 



Meeting, Nov. 1st.— Lecture by S. Drew, M.D., D. Sc. F.KS. Ed., 

 " The Earth and her Sister Planets." — H. FnANELm Parsons. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting November 11th, Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, president, in the chair. — Mr. C. P. Hobkirk exhibited Sphagnum 

 acutifolium, var. Icete-mrens, and Sphagnum molle, var. Muelleri, from 

 Darnholme, near Whitby, sent to him by Dr. Braithwaite. The chairman 

 shewed a series of Emmelesia tceniata, taken during the present season 

 near Grange by Mr. J. B. Hodgkinson of Preston ; he also stated that 

 Mr. Grigg had taken specimens of Platypteryx sicula near Bristol again this 

 year. Part YII. of Mosley's " Exotic Butterflies " was on the table, and 

 was greatly appreciated. The secretary, Mr. George Brook, ter., read a 

 paper entitled "A Botanist's Tvip to Killarney," in which he gave the 

 results of an expedition to that district made by himself and Mr. James 

 Britten in August last. He exhibited a large number of specimens he 

 had collected, including Euphragia viscosa from Cork ; Ulex Gallii, Bray 

 Head ; Hypericum elodes, Ceterach officinalis, Cicendia jiliformis, Pingui- 

 cula lusitanica, Drosera intermedia, Campylopus atrovirens, Ptychomitrium 

 polyp>hyllum, and Racomitrium canescens, fr. , all from Glengarifi" ; Sapo- 

 naria officinalis, from near Bray ; Scutellaria minor, Phynchospora fusca 

 from Killarney ; Veronica scutellata, Kerry ; Hypericum androscemum, 

 Festuca ovina, var. vivipara, from Muckross ; Campylopus fragilis, var. 

 densus, Pogonatum urnigerum, P. aloides, Euphorhia hiherna, Racomi- 

 trium aciculare, Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, all from Mangerton ; TTlota 

 calvescens. Tore Waterfall ; Ranunculus Lenormandi, Sedum anglicum, 

 Anagallis tenella. Arbutus unedo, all Gap of Dunloe ; Callitriche autum- 

 nalis, NymphcBa alba, Silene maritima, Epipactus media, Vicia sylvatica, 

 all Boss Island ; Lycium barbarum, Sutton Station ; Hypericum humi- 

 fusum. Bray Head ; Lotus corniculatus, var. crassifolius, from Greystones ; 

 Foiniculum officinale, Dargle ; Anthemis nobilis, Greystones. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — This society 

 held its monthly meeting Oct. 28th, in the small lecture room, Brown's 

 Museum, Mr. S. J. Capper, president, in the chair. A paper was read by 

 Mr. Henry Capper on " Ants." The president exhibited two interesting 

 specimens of a Cidaria from the Isle of Arran, considered varieties of 

 Cidaria russata ; Mr. Hodgkinson, of Preston, C. reticulata, E. tceniata, 

 a new tortrix {Penthina postremana), also varieties of A. grossulariata. 



