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Meeting, Jan. 31st. — Paper by Mr. J. Lockington, on "Some of 

 the properties and peculiarities of water." 



Meeting, Feb. 14tli. — Lecture by Mr. T. Rowney, of Hull, on 

 ^' Sound, its relation to the telephone, microphone, and phonograph," all 

 of which instruments were exhibited. 



Meeting, Feb. 28th. — A deputation was appointed to wait on Mr. 

 Creyke, lord of the manor of Rawcliffe, with reference to the preservation 

 from enclosure of such parts of the Rawcliffe rabbit hills as were the most 

 interesting to students of natural history. A germinating cocoa-nut was 

 exhibited, showing the enlarged pear-shaped fleshy cotyledon within the 

 cavity of the albumen. A paper was read by Mr. H, T. Gardiner, on 

 " Some points of local history." 



Meeting, Mar. 14th. — A collection of lichens was exhibited by Dr. 

 Parsons, who described and pointed out the characters of that order of 

 plants, and showed the way to examine them microscopically. He also 

 submitted lists of the cryptogamia of the district, which at present 

 included 140 mosses, 22 hepaticse, 57 lichens, 179 fungi, and 80 algse. — 

 H. Franklin Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting March 14th, Mr. S. L. 

 Mosley, vice-president, in the chair. The last report of the North 

 Staffordshire Field Club was laid on the table. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk 

 showed a peculiar bunting from the Falkland Isles, evidently closely allied 

 to our cirl bunting. Mr. Geo. Brook, with the microscope, the 

 following fungi, &c. : — Palmoglcea macrococca, Sphmria acuminata and 

 thelena, Peronospora nivea, Geoglossum hirsutum and difforme, Peziza suc- 

 cosa, and Massaria suridia ; the chairman, Larentia salicata, taken at 

 Meltham, Anisopteryx cescidaria (Huddersfield), also a very variable-sized 

 series of Liparis dispar (bred). Mr. G. T. Porritt showed living larvse of 

 two very distinct forms of Stilbia anomala from Torquay, and series of 

 Bactra uliginosana and Anesychia funerella received by him from Lord 

 Walsingham. He also showed part iii. of Owen Wilson's " Larvse of 

 British Lepidoptera." Mr. S. D. Bairstow read a paper on "Ichneu- 

 mons,"^ illustrated by beautifully-executed drawings by himself. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 322nd 

 meeting, Feb. 18th. — The chairman, Mr. Benj. Holgate, F.G.S., v.p., 

 showed specimens of the stems of a very large number of arborescent 

 plants, both exogenous and endogenous, and gave an interesting address 

 in explanation of the different arrangements of the fibro-vascular 

 bundles, as observable in the sections. Mr. W. H. Hay exhibited some 

 interesting varieties of the egg of the blackbird (one, a pale blue one, is 

 to all appearance the same as Turdus migratorius, or American robin), 

 house sparrow, and guillemot. Mr. Walter Raine, death's head chrysalis 

 {Acherontia Atropos) from a potato field near Tadcaster. 



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