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gatliered by Mr. T. W. Js'aylor Beckett, F.L.S., in Ceylon, including 

 Neckera flahellaia, Fissidens anomalus, 5,700 ft. alt., Leiicohryum 

 Bovyringii, 3,000 feet alt., Dicranum edentulum, Stereodon cypervides, 

 Diphyscium involutum, Macromitrium fascicidare on coffee trees, 4,000 

 feet alt., and Tracliypus crispatvdus. 5,000 feet alt. Mr. G. T. Porritt 

 showed a box containing the following lepidoptera he had recently 

 received from Lord Walsingham : — Coccyx Ochseiiheimeriana, discovered 

 for the first time in Britain last year by Lord Walsingham, on his own 

 estate at Merton ; EnpcBcUia Degrayana, a species also first discovered by 

 his lordship some years ago, and named after himself ; Coccyx distinctMia, 

 Pteropliorus Icetus, P. piloselloe, and P. isodactylus ; Mr. Geo. Brook, the 

 following crustacese : — Galathea strigosa, Xantho florida, Porcellana 

 platycheles, Axiiis sterynchus, P/iachns dorynchus, Pisa tetraodon, Scyllarus 

 arctus, PoHnnus corrugatus — all from the Channel Islands ; Atelecylus 

 heteredon, from Aberdeen ; a monster prawn {Paloemon vulgaris), from 

 Weymouth ; Corystes cassivelaunus, from Southend ; Stenorynchus phalan- 

 gium, from Southend : and the same species from the mouth of the 

 Thames in comparison. With a new and very excellent style of micro- 

 scope — Collins' histological improved — Mr. Hobkirk showed double 

 stained sections of rat's tail, Tilia EnropcEa, Viburnum Lantana, and 

 triplet slide illustrating the exogens, endogens, and acrogens. The 

 Official Report on the Salmon Disease, by Messrs. Frank Buckland, 

 Walpole, and Young, was laid on the table. 



The Leeds Xatuealists' Club and Scientific Association. —398th 

 meeting, September 21st. — Mr. Washington Teasdale, F.R.M.S., vice- 

 president, who occupied the chair, exhibited some tracings of new 

 patterns of pendulum curves, and the ornithophone " — a new French, 

 toy which, by friction, produces sounds extremely like the .cries of birds 

 and the squeaks of insects. Mr. J. W. Dixon showed microscopic 

 drawings, 'Mjc. F. Emsley, various slides of insects ; Mr. J. E,. Murdoch, 

 slides of cryptogamic plants prepared by the Rev. J. E. Vize ; Mr. W. 

 Raine, fossils from Whitby, and Planorhis comeus, P. cojnplanatus, 

 Limncea stagnalis, and L. peregra, all very fine and large, from Strensall 

 Common ; Mr. H. Pollard, Collingham andlNIasham examples of Bulimiis 

 ohscurus ; also an example of its rare variety alhus from Whitby, as 

 recorded previously in the Naturalist ; Helix lapicida from ElKngton, 

 near Masham ; L. peregra, var. acuminata, from the Serpentine in Hyde 

 Park, London ; deformed examples of L. peregra from Normanby, N.Y., 

 and dwarfed specimens from a reservoir in Bolckow and Vaughan's works 

 at Southbank, N.Y. 



399th Meeting, Sept. 28th, Mr. Henry Lupton, vice-president, in the 

 chair. — IVL". Walter Raine brought a great grey shrike's skin, also a dried 

 long-eared bat from Ryther. Specimens of the sparrow-hawk from 

 Sheriff Hutton, and of the ferret (dark variety), killed by a dog at Roth-j 

 well, were shown ; the latter had been sent as a polecat, which it wafi' 



