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The Naturalist. 



Mr. H. Marsh, some well-preserved larvae, pupae, and images of various 

 lepidoptera. Mr. J. E,. Murdocli, a large number of lichens, collected at 

 New Galloway, N.B., by Mr. James Mac Andrew, after whom one of them 

 — Lithographis Andrewii — was named. Mr. James Fogg, a snow bunting, 

 in immature plumage, taken at Spurn Point, and also a black guillemot. 

 Mr. W. E. Clarke exhibited some parts of Sharp & Dresser's " Birds of 

 Europe " — a magnificent work. The Vertebrate Section re-elected their 

 officers for 1880, Mr. W. E. Clarke being president, and Mr. W. H. Hay, 

 secretary. 



364th Meeting (the 10th annual meeting), Mr. Edward Atkinson, 

 F.L.S., president, in the chair. — The officers for 1880 were elected, Mr. 

 Benjamin Holgate, F.G.S., being president ; the secretary, Mr. Wm. 

 Denison Roebuck, was re-elected. The annual reports and balance sheets 

 having been passed, the president gave his valedictory address, and after 

 some votes of thanks the meetings were adjourned to Jan. 27th, 1880. 



Manchkster Cryptogamic Society. — Monthly meeting, Mr. John 

 Whitehead, president, in the chair. — The correspondence read by the 

 secretary included a letter from the Rev. J. Fergusson, who enclosed for 

 the reference collection a set of British Grimmias, comprising about 30 

 species and varieties. The specimens brought for exhibition included 

 the rare Gymnostomum tenne, discovered in fruiting condition by Mr. 

 Cunliffe, at Styal, in October. The same moss had also, it was stated, 

 been found barren at Ashley Mill. It had not been observed in either 

 of the localities named until this year. The president had received, 

 through Mr. Hobkirk, an Austrian specimen, which he exhibited, of 

 Thuidinm piilchellum, a species rare in Europe, being previously known 

 to exist in only one locality. Another object exhibited by the president 

 was a fragment of Hylocomium splendens, in a semi-fossilized state, taken 

 from old lake dwellings at Lochlee, near Kilmarnock. The specimen was 

 originally sent to Mr. Hobkirk for identification, by Prof. Bayley Balfour, 

 and was interesting from its apparently semi-carbonised condition.* 

 Along with it were picked up some articles of rude workmanship, including 

 what appeared to be a plaited girdle, composed of the wiry stems of 

 Folytrichum commune. Mr. Entwistle exhibited an interesting collection 

 of dried exotic ferns, including Folypodium minus, a native of Borneo, 

 not known until very recently. 



York and District Field Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Dec. 10th. 

 — Mr. T. Wilson exhibited a fine series of Boarmia ahietaria and cincfaria, 

 both species bred ; also a fine variety of Ypsipetes elutata. The honorary 

 secretary, Mr. Prest, a specimen of Mixodia rubiginosana — a very rare 

 Tortrix, and hitherto only taken in Scotland ; it was taken by him at 

 Witherslack in June last ; also a fine series of very dark G. ohscurata — 

 a form only taken in the New Forest ; also specimens from near Lewes, 

 very nearly white, where it occurs upon the chalk. 



* See page 84. 



