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The Naturalist. 



HuDDERsriELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Ordinary meeting Feb. 21st, Mr. 

 Josepli French, president, in the chau\ — IVIr. S. D. Bairstow exhibited 

 four specimens of the Scotch form of Churtohiiis Davus ; Mr. Geo. Brook, 

 ter., Achorutes similatus, the new British Collembola recorded in the 

 February number of the Kattiralist ; also Fapirius ornatus, P. fuscus, 

 StmjHthurus fuscus, and Isotoma viridis, mounted as objects for the 

 microscope ; Tomocerus plumheus, and Lepidocertns curvicollis, living. He 

 also exhibited a new method of obtaining dark field illumination, devised 

 by Prof. Lighton, and described in the Oct. number of the Amer. Quar. 

 Jour. JNIicros. Mr, French gave his opening address, which chiefly dealt 

 with the Baconian system of philosophy, and was listened to with much 

 interest by the members. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Annual 

 meeting, January 27th. — Mr. S. J. Capper was re-elected president ; INIr. 

 Benjamin Cooke, Southport, vice-president ; and Mr. W. E. Sharp, 

 secretary for the year. During the two years of its existence 19 papers 

 had been read, six of which had been subsequently published. A paper 

 was read, entitled " An Entomologist's Holiday," commimicated by Mr. 

 W. H. Tugwell, of Greenwich ; Mr. B. Cooke exhibited a pair of Thereva 

 fuscipenuis, captured at Bowden in 1875, being then new to the British 

 list ; Mr. T. J. Moore sent for exhibition a poisonous larva, native of 

 Honduras, sent to the museum by Surgeon-Major S. Archer. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, Mr. T. Stott, 

 v.p. in the chair. — ]\Ir. J, Spencer exhibited a great number of micro- 

 scopic slides in fossil botany. Some of the specimens were entirely new 

 ones, amongst them being the following : — Zygopteris cranetime (sic), lepi- 

 dostriolites full of spores, section of a fir cone, macrospore, transverse 

 section of Stigmaria rootlets, and vertical section of the same ; Lepido- 

 dendron Harcourtii, and asterophyllites. Mr. T. Hirst exhibited a 

 beautiful specimen of the tawny owl. — Joseph Ogden, Sec. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club ant) Scientific Association. — 319tli 

 meeting, January 21st, Mr. H. Pocklington, F.R.M.S., v.p., in the chair. 

 — Mr. Tufien West, F.L.S., the celebrated microscopic artist, exhibited 

 a large series of his own original drawings, principally of Acari — materials 

 for his forthcoming monogTaph of that group. Many interesting forms 

 were figured ; in particular, one drawn from a specimen found by the 

 Bev. John Hanson, of Leeds, will constitute, together with another 

 species collected by Mr. West, a new genus, which will form a connecting 

 link between the Tardigrada and Acari proper. IMr. West addressed the 

 meeting, and afterwards practically demonstrated his method of drawing 

 from the microscope. Various apparatus for microscopic drawing were 

 then shown by Messrs. Abbott & Teasdale. 



320th Meeting, February 4th, INIr. W. Howgate, v.p., in the chair. — 

 A long list of donations to the library was announced. Practice was made 

 by members of the Microscopical Section in dra^s-ing from the microscope, 



