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(a bred black variety), and P. muUistrigaria. Mr. Jagger delivered a 

 very interesting lecture on Climate and its influence on the distribution 

 of animals and plants." 



Meeting April 13th, Mr. JUingworth in the chair. — A paper on 

 " Fossils " was read by Mr. H. Hebblethwaite. The essayist showed 

 how, by comparing the qualities and peculiarities of living animals, it 

 was possible to make out the form of the extinct animal from a fossil 

 bone. 



Meeting April 2Tth, the president in the chair. — Mr. Soppitt exhibited 

 Viola pahistris, var. sylvatica, Cardamine amara, Puccinia anemones, P. 

 saxifragarum, Uredo cirsii, Ustilago longissima,^cidimn ranunculacearum, 

 &c. Messrs. Hodgson and Hirst, boxes of local insects, including T. 

 cruda, T. stahilis, and bred specimens of N, plecta, 8. carpini, &c. 

 Cocoons and living females of the latter insect were shown by Mr. 

 Illingworth. A short account of a visit paid to the bulb gardens of 

 Holland, was given by !^'Ir. Hebblethwaite. 



Meeting, May 11th, the president in the chair. — Mr. West exhibited 

 specimens of Hellehorus viridis, Berheris vidgaris, Stellaria negleda, Pyrus 

 malus var. 7nitis, and Paris quadrifolia. Mr. Soppitt showed specimens 

 of micro-fungi, including Urocystis pompholygodes, Puccinia umhelUferarum 

 JEcidium valerianacearum. Mr. Hebblethwaite, a cut specimen of Saxi- 

 fraga crassifolia, and a few dried plants from the north of Italy. Mr. 

 Illingworth gave a short paper on "Elementary Astronomy," and 

 exhibited some instruments used in making observations. — J. A. 

 Douglas, F.RM.S., &c., &c., Hon. Sec. 



Elland-cum-Gkeetland ^Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 

 3rd May, the president in the chair. — B. Garside exhibited male specimen 

 summer duck ; F. Lumb eggs of whitethroat and great tit ; C. C. Hanson 

 small serpent from Honduras, found in some logwood. A good table of 

 local plants was shown, among which were Primus cerasus, P. Padus, 

 Primus spinosa, Vinca minor, Viola palustris, and Pedicularis sylvatica, by 

 G. Fielding and G. Edwards. The latest migrants were given in, sedge 

 warbler, May 2, whinchat, May 2, corncrake. May 10. — W. H. Stott. 



Huddersfield Scientific Club. — May meeting, Mr. S. L. Mosley, 

 president, in the chair. — Mr. Geo. Brook exhibited a series of crabs, as 

 follows : — Grapsus pictus, Ocypode cursor, and Sesarma tetragona from 

 Madagascar ; Corystes cassivilaunus from Weymouth ; and Hyas coarc- 

 taius from Hastings. The chairman showed a fine variety of Larentia 

 coesiata, having the broad central band very dark ; it had been taken at 

 Bingley ; Mr. G. T. Porritt, Notodonta chaonia, bred from larva taken at 

 Edlington Wood on the last August Bank Holiday ; also larvae of Ptero- 

 phorus galactodactylus, riddling from the underside, the leaves of the 

 burdock ; they had been sent to him from Bristol. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, 

 larvae of a Tipula, probably oUracea, upon which a conversation took 



