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The Naturalist. 



LL.D. The opening meeting was held Dec. IGfch, and an address was 

 given by the president, who expounded in a most vigorous and learned 

 manner the sciences of botany, chemistry, geology, microscopy, and con- 

 gratulated the promoters upon the success which had attended them 

 during the formation of the society. A conversazione then took place, 

 and several specimens of interest were exhibited by the members. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Nov. 26th, Mr. Illingworth 

 in the chair. — It was decided to invite six gentlemen from neighbouring 

 societies to the annual soiree. Mr. Benney then gave a lecture on The 

 Weather," showing that water must be expanded 860 times to be lighter 

 than air at sea level, and that the rapid condensation of particles caused 

 a vacuum, into which the air rushed with a rotatory motion, this latter 

 theory having been promulgated by Mr. Rowell, of Oxford. He also 

 explained the various kinds of storms. 



Meeting Dec. 10th, the president in the chair. — This was the fourth 

 annual meeting, which took the form of a soiree. About seventy persons 

 sat down to tea, after which the election of officers took place. Mr. W. 

 Jagger was re-elected president, and all the retiring officers were also 

 re-elected. The annual report was read, and showed the society to be in 

 a flourishing condition. Messrs. Jagger, Barber, and others addressed 

 the meeting. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — Meeting Dec. 6th. — Lecture by S. Drew, 

 M.D., D.Sc, on ''Our Neighbour the Moon." 



Meeting, Dec. 13th. — The following specimens were exhibited : — By 

 Mr. Birks, the common gull ; by Mr. Thorpe, lung of caK infested with 

 parasitic entozoa, probably Strongylus micrurus ; by Mr. Harrison, 

 microscopic slides. The reports of recorders were postponed till Jan. 

 17th. — H. Franklin Parsons. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Annual meeting Dec. 13th, Mr. 

 G. T. Porritt, president, in the chair. — The officers for the coming year 

 were elected as follows : — President, Mr. Joseph French ; vice-president, 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley ; secretary and treasurer, Mr. George Brook, ter. ; 

 librarian, Mr. J. B. Littlewood ; delegate to Yorkshire Naturalists' 

 Union, Mr. John Conacher. The chairman exhibited a box of lepidop- 

 tera he had just received from Mr. 0. G. Barrett, of Pembroke, including 

 Cncullia ahsynthii, Lohophora viretata, Diasemia litemlis, Scopula ferrugalis, 

 Cramhus dumetellus, Ephestia simtella, E. cinerosella and Eudorea coarc- 

 talis. He also showed a series of beautifully coloured plates from the 

 " Transactions " of the Linnean Society of London. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk 

 showed the following mosses : — Aulacomnium palustre and A. androgy^mm 

 (British), A. turgidum in fruit (Norway), and A. heterostichum, United 

 States. The examination of these specimens under the microscope, 

 and details of their characters, created great interest. 



