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Htjddersfield Scieotific Club. — Meeting Feb. 13tli, Mr. S. L. Mosley, 

 president, in the chair. — Mr. CP. Hobkirk exhibited an extensive series 

 of mosses, gathered by Mr. T. W. N. Beckett, F.L.S., and Mr. Thwaites, 

 in Ceylon : amongst them were two species also found in Britain — Eypnum 

 Sivartzii and H. plnmosum ; the others included many beautiful forms, as 

 Hypnodendron arborescens, Trachypus crispatulus, Nedcera Jlabellata, Mac- 

 romitrium Schmidii (fr.), M. hispiduliim, M. fascicnlare (fr.), &c. The 

 president showed a box of ichneumonidse, received that day from Mr. G. 



C. Bignell of Plymouth, including Limneria alhidus bred from the larvae 

 of Gonepteryx rhamni, Anomalon xanthopus from Pieris Daplidice, Apan- 

 teles oveolarum from MelitcBa Artemis, and Apanteles glomeratus from Pieris 

 hrassicce. Mr. G. T. Porritt showed a series of Pterophorus spilodadylus, 

 from Freshwater in the Isle of Wight ; they were much darker in colour 

 than some he exhibited about a year ago from another locality. Mr. S. 



D. Bairstow, a box of coleoptera, orthoptera, and diptera, including some 

 beautiful exotic species. The chairman then gave the inaugural address 

 for the year, on " The Uses of Provincial Natural History Societies." 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Annual 

 meeting, Liverpool, the president, Mr. S. J. Capper, in the chair. — The 

 retiring officers were re-elected for the current year. The balance sheet 

 for the past year was adopted. The following exhibits were made : — 

 Beech leaves mined by the larvfe of Lithocolletes faginella, by Mr. J. L. 

 Ellis ; a case of specimens of Ornithoptera arvana from "New Guinea, by 

 Mr. T. J. Moore. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. —365th 

 meeting, Jan. 27th. — The new president, Mr. Benjamin Holgate, F.G.S., 

 gave his inaugural address, in which he showed the mutual inter- 

 dependence of the various sciences, and the consequent desirability of 

 mutual association on the part of scientific students. At the close of his 

 address he explained the boundaries of five districts which have been 

 adopted as a basis for writing lists of fauna and flora, and the principles 

 on which the districts were framed. Short notes were read : I. on The 

 Badger in Yorkshire," by Mr. Richard Andrews ; II. on The earliest 

 known Yorkshire Plant, the Yew," by Mr. F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S. 



336th Meeting, Feb, 3rd, the president in the chair. — Mr. Henry 

 Lupton, president of the Entomological Section, opened its proceedings 

 by a short paper on his entomological visit to Brazil, which he illustrated 

 by a collection of the butterflies. — W. D. R. 



367th Meeting, Feb. 10th, Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., president, in the 

 chair. — The subject of the evening was Parasites and Parasitism," upon 

 which Mr. Washington Teasdale, F.R.M.S., delivered an address, illus- 

 trated by a fine series of photographs by Dr. Maddox. He also showed 

 the curious edition of Hooke's " Micrographia Restaurata " (1745). He 

 exhibited the parasites of the flying fox (Nycterihia ), of muscular tissue 

 {Trioldna s^ircdis), of man {Pedicnlns pubis and eggs, and Tmda solium), 



