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clay-slate which is undergoing disintegration and forming detritus, and is 

 therefore liable to fall away en masse, and thus disappear for some years. 

 For much of the above information I am indebted to Mr. Holmes. This 

 is the Trichostomum suhulatum of Bruch and Schimper, Bryol. Eur. II. , 

 t. 382 ; Wilson's Bryol. Brit., p. 117, t. 42 ; Bidymodon aureus, De Not. 

 Spicileg. and Syll. ; Leptotrichum suhulatum, Hampe, 0. Miiller, Syn. I., 

 p. 448 ; Didymodon suhulatus, Bruch in De Not. Syll. Muse, p. 199. 

 Out of England this moss has been found in Sardinia, Corsica, and Sicily ; 

 in France, at Cannes and the islands of Hyeres on the Mediterranean 

 coast, and at St. Sever, in the Department of Landes, bordering the Bay 

 of Biscay, and in the littoral region of North Africa, by Salzmann. — 



C. P. HOBKIKK. 



CoNCHOLOGicAL NoTES. — Zouites glahev, Studer. — On the 26th April 

 last I took this s^^ecies of land mollusc at Roundhay. This is the 

 nearest locality to Leeds in which it has yet been taken. Shadwell ranks 

 next, it having been collected there two years ago by Mr. Crowther. — 

 Clausilia laminaia, var. alhida. — Early in May I took this variety of 0. 

 laminata, in company with 0. laminata itself, 0. rugosa, and G. rugosa, 

 var.. tumidula, near Leeds. H. hispida, var. alhida. — This shell is 

 occurring pretty abundantly again this year in the Leeds district, it 

 having been taken in several places by myself and Mr. H. Crowther. — 

 H. Pollard, The Museum, Leeds. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, &c. — " The Great Atlas Moth of Asia, 

 Attacus atlas. Linn., by P. H. Gosse, F.R.S., &c. London: West 

 Newman & Co. (Coloured Plate)." Anything from the pen of Mr. Gosse 

 is certain to be not only interesting and readable, but full of useful infor- 

 mation. This little work is no exception, either in style or matter ; it 

 details the author's experiments in attempting to breed this " vastest of 

 all known lepidoptera " from the cocoons sent over at various times from 

 the East Indies. Mr. Gosse gives the whole life-history of this giant 

 from the egg to the perfect imago, chiefly from his own experiments and 

 observations, and carries the reader with him in such a captivating manner 

 as to make him wish he had been the companion of his labours. We 

 have read the whole with much profit, and the best recommendation we 

 can give of it, is —to all our friends, whether general entomologists or 

 those specially interested in the introduction of silk-producing moths — 

 go and do likewise. 



" Nature cared for and uncared for, by H. Bendelack Hewitson, 

 M.R.C.S. London: West Newman & Co. (Woodcuts)."— This is the 

 matter of a lecture delivered at the Mission Room at Walton, and treats 

 of the habits and customs of three birds — the golden eagle, the hedge- 

 sparrow, and the swallow — a subject which naturally suggests itself for a 

 lecture given almost within the shadow of the well-known home of the 

 great Yorkshire naturalist, Chas. Waterton, whose care for all birds has 

 almost become a proverb. Its style is simple and colloquial, and will no 



