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Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly 

 meeting, April 2Ttli, Mr. S. J. Capper, president, in tlie chair. A paper 

 was read by ]Mr. W. H. Heyworth, of Alderley-edge, on ^^The Lepidoptera 

 of Mid-Cheshire." A communication was also read, supplied through the 

 kindness of IVIr. T. J. Moore, from Mr. Dunkinfield Jones, of Woolton, who 

 is at present studying the lepidoptera of Brazil, in which IVIr. Jones gives 

 some interesting details respecting the miniature stages of several species 

 of the genera Morpho and Papilio, with special reference to the venomous 

 nature of certain larvae of that district. The chairman then drew the 

 attention of the meeting to the efforts now being made by IMiss E. A. Orme- 

 rod, Isleworth, and IVIr. E. A. Fitch, Maldon, with other gentlemen, to 

 interest entomologists generally in observing and recording the appearance 

 and economy of certain insects annually selected, which were specially 

 injurious to crops. In presenting the report of last year's, observations 

 to the meeting, the chairman impressed on the members the advi- 

 sability of aiding, as far as was in their power, these efforts. The 

 insects selected for observation during the present year were sixteen in 

 number, and IVIiss Ormerod would be glad to furnish any member or 

 other gentleman interested in the subject, and willing to record his 

 observations, with a printed form for that purpose. The usual con- 

 versazione terminated the meeting. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 329th 

 meeting, April 15th, ]\Ir. C. H. Bothamley in the chair, who showed 

 some rock specimens from the Ingleton district. 



330th Meeting, April 22nd, Mr. Charles Eider in the chair. — 

 Mr. W. H. Hay exhibited the eggs of the chipping sparrow {FringiUa 

 socialis) and the song sparrow {F. melodius) from Cookstown, Ontario, 

 Canada. He described the birds, and made some remarks on their 

 nidification. Mr. H. Marsh showed specimens of Anisopteryx cescularia 

 from near Arthington, where it was very abundant on the 19th April. 

 Many microscopic objects were shown by Messrs. W. Barwell Turner, 

 F.C.S., F. Emsley, &c., including Ceramium ?"!t6?'um from Hornsea, and 

 a curious water animal from Adel, concerning which there was an 

 interesting discussion. 



331sT Meeting, April 29th, Mr. Edward Atkinson, F.L.S., F.Z.S., 

 president, in the chair. — Several donations from Dr. Wesley, of Wetherby, 

 were announced, and a vote of thanks passed. Mr. W. Raine reported 

 having seen the swallow at Roundhay Park, on the 26th April, and 

 Messrs. Hay and Grassham for the same date at Beamsley Beacon, in 

 Wharfedale. Mr. W. B. Turner showed spicules of sponges (Grmntia, 

 HalichondHa, Tethya, and Hyalonema) and sections of spines of echinidse. 

 Mr. C . H. Bothamley then assumed the chair, and the president read a 

 paper on " Copal, and the allied fossil and sub-fossil Gum-resins : their 

 origin, natural history, and uses in the arts and manufactures," illustrated 

 by a beautiful series of specimens of native gums. 



