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on the advantages to be derived from tlie study of Xatural Histor^T-, and 

 in the course of his remarks alluded to the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 

 Mr. Roebuck of Leeds rephed, setting forth the work being done at 

 present by the Union in the investigation of the fauna and flora of the 

 county ; and referring to the publications (Transactions) at present being 

 issued, soKcted the assistance — in the shape of subscriptions, &c. — of all 

 present. — J. W. Carter, Hon. Sec. 



Dewsbuky Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, Dec. 18th, Mr. 

 J. Farnhill in the chair. — Mr. P. F. Lee read a paper on " The Mor- 

 phology and Phj-siology of Plants," which was illustrated with the 

 microscope, diagrams, and specimens from the society's herbarium. — 

 H. Brearley, Sec. 



Ellaxd-cc3i-Greetlaxd Naturalists' Soclety. — Monthly meeting, 

 Dec. 1st, Mr. J. E. Garside in the chair. — Mr. J. Fielding showed two 

 live tortoises (African and American) ; B. Garside, moorhen and lap- 

 wing ; C. C. Hanson, egg of ostrich and common wren ; P. W. Calvert, 

 belemites. The annual meeting was fixed for Jan. 5th. — W. Hy. Stott. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — 361st 

 meeting, Nov. 18th, Mr. E. E. Prince in the chair. — Mr. Walter Paine 

 exhibited a fine skin of the great grey shrike, also eggs of the common 

 skua, Buffon's skua, Pichardson's skua, great black-backed gull, and little 

 auk. Mr. W. H. Hay, a skin of the red-winged starling, from America. 

 He described its habits as observed by him in Canada, and stated that 

 towards the winter these birds congregate in flocks, as does our common 

 starling. 



362nd Meeting, Nov. 25th, Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., in the 

 chair. — He exhibited Glceocapsa polydermatica ; Mr. F. Emsley, the red 

 form of Protococcus pluvicdis, some Mediterranean foraminifera, a Cali- 

 f ornian zoophyte, and the larva of Corethra plumicornis. The eggs of the 

 common black slug were shown by Mr. Henry Marsh. Mr. Washington 

 Teasdale exhibited a very simple apparatus for displaying the spectral 

 colours from a reflecting plate. Mr, John Grassham, a pair of Pomarine 

 skuas, adult and young, shot on the coast near Bridlington. Mr. Walter 

 Paine, some rare birds' eggs, including those of the great plover from 

 Norfolk, and of the avocet, which used formerly to breed in the fens. 



363rd Meeting, Dec. 2nd, Messrs. B. SaynorandB. Holgate, F.G.S,, 

 in the chair. — The latter exhibited a number of specimens (fossil and 

 other) from the Cambridge Greensand, and made some interesting 

 remarks on them. Mr. C. H. Bothamley showed various minerals. Mr. 

 Washington Teasdale, a section of Loftusia persica — a fossil which repre- 

 sents a gigantic type of arenaceous foraminifera. Mr. F. Emsley, various 

 animalculse from the canal. Mr. C. Smethurst, living examples of 

 Clielpnia caja, bred in the house in the last week in November ; one was 

 a dark variety, with the light markings of a cream colour and very small. 



