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The Naturalist. 



presence of blooming plants in the homes of the working classes had a 

 very pleasing and cheerful effect^ besides adding to the health and com- 

 fort of the inmates. The lecture contained many useful and practical 

 hints, and was warmly received by a large and enthusiastic audience. — 

 A number of local insects were at the same meeting shown by Messrs. 

 lUingworth, Saville, and Carter. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club, Mr. S. L. Mosley, vice-president, in 

 the chair. — Mr. G. T. Porritt exhibited a very beautiful almost black 

 variety of Folia flavocincta, taken at sugar on the night of Sept. I7th ; 

 also a hermaphrodite specimen of Acronycta menyanthidis, taken on 

 Baildon Moor, near Shipley, by Mr. J. W. Carter of Bradford ; Mr. S. D. 

 Bairstow showed a rat with a tanned hide, found, along with a cat in a 

 similar condition, in an old building at Stratford-on-Avon, and which 

 must have lain there many hundreds of years ; also various ichneumons 

 showing different styles of setting. The specimens included Pimpla, 

 detrita, an undescribed Vlophos bred from Coleophora vibricella by Mr. 

 Porritt, Lisonota impressa (?) from Smerinthus ocellatus, Microgaster 

 dilutas from Liparis auriflua, and Cryptus viduatorius ; also a pale variety 

 of Abraxas grossulariata from Rock Ferry. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. —358th 

 meeting, Oct. 28th, Mr. Benj. Holgate, F.G.S., vice-president, in the 

 chair. — The chairman exhibited fossils from the Baygill quarries, Lothers- 

 dale, near Skipton. By means of diagrams he showed the position of 

 this remarkable deposit of remains of various extinct mammalia. Mr. 

 Walter Paine showed a long-eared bat {Plecotus auritus) from Pyther. 

 Mr. W. Howgate, the stormy petrel {Thalassidroma pelagica) ; also the 

 skeleton of that bird, and for comparison, foot of albatross. Mr. Chas. 

 Smethurst, Metrocampa margaritata from Moseley Wood, Horsforth ; 

 Epione apiciaria, bred from Bishop's Wood larvse ; Nonagria fnlva from 

 Bishop's Wood ; and some interesting varieties of Chelonia caja and other 

 lepidoptera. The microscopical exhibits included circulation in branchial 

 tufts of young newt, leaves of Scapania, spores of Pellia, sections of frond 

 of Marchantia, of receptacle of same, and plants of Riccia natans and 

 Selaginella stolonifera (stained), shown by Mr. W . Barwell Turner, F. C. S. ; 

 and lichens from Howden, spores of Achlya on fly's wing, Vorticelloi, 

 diatoms, Floscularice, &c., from the canal at Leeds, by Mr. S. Emsley, 

 in whose hands a fluid containing creosote and alcohol seems to have been 

 used successfully, many delicate objects having been mounted in it by 

 him. 



359th Meeting, Nov. 4th, Mr. C. Smethurst, president of the Entomo- 

 logical Section, in the chair. — The election of officers for 1880 for the 

 Entomological Section resulted as follows : — Mr. Henry Lupton, presi- 

 dent ; Pev. M. S. Dunbar, M.A., vice-president ; and Mr. Alfred Denny, 

 secretary. Numerous local insects were shown, as Sirex gigas from 

 Masham and Leeds, Cynthia cardui from Masham, &c. Mr. Henry 



