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332N-D Meeting, May 6th, Mr John Grassham in the chair.— Mr. Abbott 

 mentioned the discovery of Gagea lutea at CoUingham and Masham by a 

 boy of 12, son of Mr. Houlton, of Wetherby. Mr. Abbott stated that he 

 had gathered it abundantly near Doncaster. Mr. Smethurst showed 

 Meanwood larvae of Noctua hrunnea and Mania typica. Mr. Roebuck, 

 Trichiosoma hetuleti, also its empty pupa-case, sent from Storthes Hall 

 Wood, Huddersfield, by Mr. S. L. Moseley. Mr. James Abbott, stained 

 sections of brain of Blatta, showing the attachments of the nerves, and 

 their relations to the eyes, oesophagus, &c. ; also eye of Carahus, showing 

 multiplication of images through the facets. He brought his new 

 Boss-Zentmayer microscope stand ; also Swift's new portable miniature 

 microscopic lamp. 



333rd Meeting, May 13th, Mr. C. H. Bothamley, v. p., in the chair, 



who read a paper on the " Radiometer." Mr. Roebuck showed Arvicola 

 agrestis from Pannal. Mr. Walter Raine, a large number of rare British 

 birds' eggs, including the extinct great bustard ; also the various doves, 

 including passenger pigeon, the Barbary partridge, &c. Mr. H. Marsh, 

 Pateley Bridge, egg of the ring ouzel. Mr. James Fogg, Tceniocampa 

 gothica, var. gothicina from Ackworth, and Mr. Smethurst, a long series 

 of the variations of T. imtahilis. Mr. Roebuck, on behalf of Mr. T. Lister, 

 a specimen of Acanthocinus cedilis, taken in a colliery near Barnsley, 

 probably imported with Scandinavian timber. Mr. Alfred Denny, Tapino- 

 stola hondii and Procris glohularice from Folkstone ; Thais polyxena from 

 South of France, with its pupa-case and ophionid parasite (Metopius 

 dentatus), bred, from Caithness ; examples of Bombyx callunoe, ; and some 

 beetles taken near Adel, including Ehagium inquisitor, R. hifasciatum, 

 Pyrochroa ruhens, and male and female Meloe violaceus. The micro- 

 scopic exhibits were numerous and interesting. Mr. W. BarweU 

 Turner, F.C.S., reported that among other fresh-water algse collected in 

 the Seven- Arches Valley, Meanwood, were identified Mesocarpus scalaris, 

 Coleochcete scutata, Bidhochmte setigera, Draparnaldia plumosa, Spirogyra 

 communis, S. quinina, Tetmemorus granulatus, and seven species of 

 Closterium. At the same place (and also on May 3rd) Mr. Turner made 

 a collection of diatomaceous material, which has already yielded thirty- 

 three species and one variety. The general results of this gathering are 

 verified by examination of a like gathering made on the 11th, in the 

 Meanwood Valley, by Mr. F. Emsley. Mr. W. H. Kirtlan showed living 

 e:^a.m.-ples of Draparnaldia glomerata, Lynghya (?sp.), Oscillatoria nigra, 

 Closterium moniliferum, and diatoms. — W. D. R. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — The second meeting for 1879 was 

 held at Harrogate on Saturday, the 10th of May. The ornithologists 

 turned up in strongest force, the Pateley Bridge district being, from its 

 varied character, specially attractive to them. The main body of excur- 

 sionists visited Pateley, and only a very few investigated the immediate 

 neighbourhood of Harrogate. The meeting at the People's Hotel, Albert 



