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cyperoides and Dicrai^um undiilatnm, collected in Ceylon by Mr. 

 T. W, N. Beckett, of Abergele. Mr. W. Atkinson exhibited specimens 

 of ancient pottery, comprising a bottle and jug of Roman ware, an 

 Egyptian lamp, with imprint of an ibis, a lamp of Etruscan ware, and a 

 very perfect and curious lamp of clay, which was evidently a predecessor 

 in form to the Roman and other lamps. Microscopical exhibits were 

 made by Messrs. F. Emsley, C. R. Newton, and W. B. Turner, and also 

 on behalf of Mr. J. D. Butterell, of Beverley. Four birds, taken in 

 Eastern Central Africa by the late Rev. A. W. Dodgshun, were shown 

 on behalf of Mr. W. Denison Roebuck. The names, as determined by 

 Dr. Hartlaub, of Bremen, are E'iipleHes capensis, Hinmdo piiella, Mela- 

 nopepla atromhens {Bradyoxoris ater), and Nectarina Jardinei. Towards 

 the close of the meeting there was a short discussion on micro- 

 photography. 



412th Meeting, Feb. 8th, the president in the chair. — Mr. W. Atkin- 

 son exhibited a box of insects from India, containing specimens of 

 beetles, lantern-flies {Fulgora candelarin), grasshoppers, &c.; and also 

 various British lepidoptera, amongst which was the Camberwell beauty, 

 Vanessa Antiopa. Mr. Walter Raine showed a beautiful series of eggs of 

 the sparrow-hawk and kestrel from Adel, Roundhay, York, and Bishop's 

 Wood, near Selby ; and likewise eggs of the merlin from Darlington, 

 red-footed falcon from Turkey, and peregrine falcon from the Bass Rock, 

 Scotland ; Mr. Henry Marsh, the skull and claws of a young panther 

 killed in Bengal by Major Temple. Mr. Chas. Smethurst brought a 

 small collection of foreign butterflies, comprising specimens of Euplcea, 

 Plescippe, and Pieris ; Mr. John Kirby showed several saws of saw-fish, 

 and also a curious whip-like tail of an Indian flat fish ; the president, a 

 number of drawings of parasitic insects, or Anoplura, executed by him- 

 self from specimens under the microscope, including Docophorvs platy- 

 gaster from the purple sandpiper, and Lipeurus jejanus and Trinoton 

 squallidum, from the goose ; Mr. F. Emsley, slides of Hydra viridis, 

 Oscillatoriaceoe, from Roundhay, and a double stained section of 

 birch. 



413th Meeting, Feb. 15th, the president in the chair. — Mr. James R. 

 Murdoch showed a number of microscopic slides of mosses collected near 

 Selby, including l^phagnum squarrosnm, S. molluscum, S. phimosnm, S. 

 compactnm,, Tetraphis pellucida, and A'\dacomnion androgynum. ; Mr. W. 

 Denison Roebuck, a photograph of a white variety of the common mole, 

 taken alive at Stillingfleet, near York, in March, 1879. Other examples 

 of the same variety occurred there in December, 1879, and March, 1880. 

 All the specimens fell into the possession of Mr. George Edson, of 

 Malton. White varieties of the mole are not uncommon, but the chief 

 point of interest was the persistence of the forms in the same locality. 

 The president brought a collection of Desmidiacece from North Wales, 



