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The Naturalist. 



remarks Mr. Hebblethwaite referred to his recent visit to Holland, 

 and said that although he had chosen for his subject the Bulb Gardens of 

 Holland, he thought a more appropriate title would have been " The Bulb 

 Fields or Farms of Holland, for with that nation the flowers which were 

 so highly prized in this country for their attractive blooms as well as their 

 sweet odours, were grown in acres and even in miles of helds. Mr. 

 Hebblethwaite gave a practical illustration of the modus operandi of the 

 cultivation of the hyacinth and tulip from the seeds and offsets to the 

 mature bulb, which was explained to him by M. Yantubergen, one of the 

 largest hyacinth growers in Haarlem. 



The Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. —389th 

 meeting, July 20th, Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., president, in the chair. — 

 Mr. B. Saynor showed Volvox globator, found in the fish-ponds at 

 Bramham Park ; Mr. James Abbott, the ciUary circulation in living 

 specimens of Alcyonella fungosa, found near Leeds ; wood sections were 

 shown by Mr. J. W. Dixon ; and Mr. F. Emsley had on view Cantho- 

 camptus minutus and various freshwater algse from Bramham Park. Mr. 

 W. B. Turner, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., showed numerous objects, especially 

 marine algae, sponges, zoophytes, and he demonstrated the process of 

 reproduction in Oscillatoriaceie. Glow-worms {Lampyris noctiluca) from 

 Lindley Wood, in the Washburn valley, were shown by Mr. W. E. 

 Clarke, M.B.O.U. A fine living blindworm (Aoiguis fragilis) taken in an 

 orchard at Masham, coiled up with four others, was shown on behalf of 

 Mr. James Carter. Mr. Walter Raine showed a young jay {Garrulus 

 glandarius) alive, from Byther, and Mr. A. A. Pearson exhibited two 

 patterns of a new design for a micro-section cutter. 



390th Meeting, July 27th, the president in the chair. — A lecture was 

 delivered by Mr. W. BarweU Turner, F.C.S., F.R.M.S., upon '^Systems 

 of Zoology, Old and New." 



391sT Meeting, Aug. 3rd, the president in the chair. — Mr. W. Denison 

 Boebuck exhibited a female lizard {Zootoca vivipara) which he had taken 

 on the Gill Beck moors, near Barden, and five young ones which it had 

 produced in captivity. Mr. Henry Lupton, M.E.S., described his ento- 

 mological tour in the Isle of Arran, and exhibited his captures, including 

 a very fine variety of Boarmia repandata and examples of Dasydia 

 ohfuscata, Pelurga comitata, Plusia mterrogationis, Platypteryx lacertula, 

 Agrotis valligera, and a very large species of Tahanus, or horse-fly. Mr. 

 Henry Marsh showed Apatura Iris, Arge Galathea, Anger ona prunaria, 

 Aventia flexula, Toxocampa pastinum, &c., his recent captures at Chat- 

 tenden woods, near Rochester ; Mr. C. Smethurst, good varieties of 

 Bomhyx callunm, Arctia caja, and Spilosoma hihricipeda ; Mr. W. H. 

 Taylor, Cycfvi^us rostratus from Boundhay Park, a beetle previously 

 unrecorded for the Leeds district ; also Lepisma saccharina, taken in the 

 meeting-room. Mr. Wm. Howgate exhibited a very large spider (living), 



