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fowl (eggs of Menopon pallidum), horse (eggs of bot-fly), sheep (fluke, 

 Fasciola hepatica), humble-bee {Gammasus bomhorum), fish (Argulus 

 foliaceus), and stickleback (Pandarus hicolor). Mr. F. Emsley showed 

 the parasites of stickleback {Argulus foliaceus) and beetle {Gammasus 

 coleoptratorum). Mr. W, H. Kirtlan exhibited the squirrel flea {Pulex 

 sciuri). Mr. W. Barwell Turner, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., parasites of the 

 sheep {Melophagus ovinus), man {Pulex irrita7is and Cimex ledularius) cat 

 {Pulex fells), beetle, bee, and tortoise ; he also showed the following 

 anoplura : — Pediculus capitis (man), Colpocephalum nyctarde (night heron), 

 C. oc/wacei(m (dunlin and woodcock), Menopon pallid'\im(io'w\), M. icterum 

 (woodcock), Docophorus lari (herring gull), D. hassani (gannet), D. cursor 

 (short-eared owl), D. variabilis (dunlin), D. cephalus (pomarine skua), 

 Trinoton conspurcatum (goose), Nirmus fulica {coot), N. obscuru s {dunlm), 

 N. sellatus (herring gull), N. fuscus (hen harrier), Goniodes dispar (part- 

 ridge), and Eoematopinus suis (pig), also peculiar specimens of anoplura 

 from the gray plover, tern, and pomarine skua. Miscellaneous exhibits 

 and communications were made by Mr. J. W. Dixon and other members. 



368th Meeting, Feb. I7th, Mr. Henry Lupton, v. p., in the chair. — 

 Short notes from Mr. Alfred Roberts, of Scarborough, were read, the 

 subjects being — the fondness of animals (chimpanzee) for scent ; the 

 nesting of the kingfisher ; the habits of the common bat ; and an anecdote 

 of a snake carrying ofi" a starling's egg. Mr. J ohn Grassham exhibited 

 a male golden-eye duck in full adult plumage, in which state it is but 

 rarely met with ; Mr. Walter Raine, eggs of the ostrich, emu, and great 

 bustard. Microscopic objects were shown by Mr. F. Emsley, and an 

 external parasite (unnamed) of the pig by Mr. Benjamin Saynor. Mr. 

 Washington Teasdale, F.R.M.S., showed a number of iridescent diatoms 

 from China, and various seeds and pollen grains. Mr. J. R. Murdoch 

 brought a number of diatoms from Calverley, and a variety of mosses and 

 hepaticse, including Lejndozia reptans, Hypnum, Schreberi, H. splendens, 

 H. sqxiarrosum, Sphagnum cymbifolium, Bubellum acutifolium. — W. D. R. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — Monthly meeting. — The presi- 

 dent (Mr. Whitehead) exhibited a specimen of Coscinodon crihrosus, which 

 the Rev. J. Fergusson, in a recent number of the Naturalist, describes 

 as an immensely interesting addition to the British flora. The moss was 

 collected so long ago as the year 1867, at Coniston, by Professor Barker, 

 of Owen's College, but lay unrecognised until Mr. Fergusson quite 

 recently detected it among a collection of British Grimmise which the 

 professor sent him. The president also exhibited a species of Fissidens 

 new to Britain, viz., F. serrulatus, gathered by Mr. Curnow near 

 Penzance. It was distributed by Mr. Curnow in 1872, mixed with F. 

 polyphyllus, and appears to have been mistaken for that species, from 

 which, however, it is quite distinct. A specimen of Mnium spinosum, 

 for which Ben Lawers is the only known British station, was exhibited ; 

 as were also Plagiothecium annotinum, and the various species of Timmia, 



