Reports of Societies. 



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B. repandata, &c. ; Mr. Johnson, pupa and imago of C. bifida ; Mr. 

 Whitby, Sphinx convolvuli ; Mr. ElKs, several varieties of T. hastiana, &c. 



Leeds Natxjralists' Club ant> Scientific Associatioist. — 312th 

 meeting, October 22nd, Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., v. p., in the chair. — 

 Microscopical objects were principally shown, including sections of Buscus 

 aculeatus, Castanea vesca, &c., and other objects, by Mr. F. W. Edwards, 

 and by JVIr. W. B. Turner various marine algee — Poltjsiphonia, Ptilota, 

 Callithamnion, Enteromorplia, TJlva, and Cladophora — from the Yorkshire 

 coast. Insects were also shown. 



313th Meeting, October 29th, Mr. Wm. Howgate, v. p., in the chair. 

 Paper read : " On the Progress of Popular Scientific Instruction in 

 Russia," by Mr. Edwd. E. Prince. 



314th Meeting, November 5th, IMr. John Grassham in the chair. — 

 Numerous insects and micro-slides shown ; sections of oak and willow by 

 ]\Ir. Saynor ; "discoid" diatoms by Mr. Turner — Craspedodiscus,. 

 Arachnodiscus, Aulacodiscus, — also Triceratium and Terpsinoe ; also by 

 Mr. Turner, dichromatic slides of ruby silver and platino-cyanide of 

 magnesium ; by IVIr. F. Emsley, sections of Solannm dulcamara, buck- 

 thorn, &c., a leg of female Dytiscios marginalis ; by Mr. Washington 

 Teasdale, two sHdes of Lissajou's curves, stained longitudinal section of 

 hand of foetus, also of jaw of mole, cuticle of fuchsia-leaf, double-stained 

 transverse section of frond of Flatycerimn alcicorne, spiral cells of Onci- 

 dium, section of spine of Ecliinometra, and sulphate of nickel and potash. 

 He also showed a very adaptable httle spectroscope by Adam Hillger, of 

 London. Other objects by Mr. F. W. Edwards. A short note on HaHfax 

 birds by Mr. F. G. S. Pawson was read ; he reported the nesting of the wood 

 warbler during the summer, a bird of which he had previously had soma 

 doubts ; in August he shot a scoter ; wild geese and ducks passed over 

 the district the latter end of September ; swallows generally departed 

 last week in September, but Mr. Rawson observed four or five on October 

 12th, the last noted ; and at the date of writing (Oct. 22nd) fieldfares- 

 and redwings had arrived in large numbers. At this meeting the society's 

 Yorkshire Herbarium received a very welcome addition, for which thanks 

 were voted, in the form of 38 species of plants given by Mr. W. West of 

 Bradford, most of them new to the collection. 



315th Meeting, Nov. 12th, Mr. C. H. Bothamley in the chair. — Paper 

 read, and illustrated by samples, " Gun Cotton," by Mr. J. A. Douglas^ 

 F.M.S., of Bradford.— W. D. R. 



Manchester Cryptogajviic Society. — A meeting of gentlemen inter- 

 ested in the study of cryptogamic botany was recently held in the library 

 of the Lower Mossley Street Schools, for the purpose of forming a Society 

 wliich shall bear the above title. There were present a number of well- 

 known botanists from Ashton-under-Lyne, Oldham, and other towns in^ 

 the district, and the Society was formally established upon a basis which 



