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The classification and uses were dealt with, after which a general discus- 

 sion took place. Messrs. Andrews and Soppitt described rambles they 

 had recently made in the district. The chairman exhibited a number of 

 exotic plants, which gave rise to a discussion on the structure of the 

 flower.— H. S. 



Elland-cum-Geeetland Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, 

 March 4th. — Mr. C. C. Hanson (who was in the chair) gave a list of the 

 vertebrata of the neighbourhood, and Mr. J. E. Garside exhibited a pair 

 of African spice birds, female grouse, and the egg of the glossy ibis. Mr. 

 James Whiteley read a very interesting paper on Volcanoes, active and 

 extinct."— Albt. Fielding. 



TIuDDERSFiELD LiTERARY AND SCIENTIFIC SociETY. — Annual Micro- 

 scopical Soiree, 28th March. As usual, this was a marked success, about 

 twenty microscopes being exhibited by the members to a numerous and 

 fashionable gathering. In the course of the evening the president, Mr. 

 Geo. Jarmain, F.I.C., made a few remarks, describing some of the 

 principal objects, amongst which the following may be mentioned : — By 

 the president : sediment from Blackmoor-foot water, section of human 

 lung injected, &c. ; by Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., Cetophilus septentrio- 

 7ialis — a small entomostracan on which the whale feeds, head of East 

 Indian mosquito, and lancet of common flea ; by Mr. Geo. Brook, F.L.S., 

 head of great gadfly, eye of cattle-fly, scales from elytron of diamond 

 beetle, &c. ; by Mr. Norman Porritt, human skin (wrist) ; by Councillor 

 Byram Littlewood, circulation of blood and action of the heart in newly- 

 hatched salmon, embryo of char in the egg ; by Mr. G. T. Duthoit, 

 Trichina spiralis, the pork parasite ; by Messrs. Swindlehurst and Oakley, 

 circulation in frog's foot and sting of humble bee ; by Mr. G. W. Rhodes, 

 spicules of Synapta, siliceous hairs on leaf of Onosma taurica, sections of 

 agate, &c. ; by Mr. H. G. Brierley, antennae of cockchafer, male and 

 female, and Batrachospermum moniliforme ; by Mr. Hy. Young, Volvox 

 glohator (living), and many others. 



HuDDERSFiELD Naturalists' SOCIETY. — Meeting 28th March, Mr. 

 S. L. Mosley in the chair. — Mr. F. Ellis showed four specimens of 

 Hyhernia progemmaria — three male and one female — and one male of the 

 dark varietyyuscato : Mr. G. Bickerdyke, a number of specimens caught 

 during last summer, among them being the following : — Agrotis valligera 

 from Lytham, Polia flavocincta, Collix sparsata, and Cidaria immanata. 

 Mr. S. L. Mosley remarked that he had seen during the last week one of 

 the first spring migrants — the wheatear. 



Meeting 9th April, the president (Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S.) in the 

 chair. — Mr. God ward named the botanical specimens laid on the table by 

 himself and Mr. Moorhouse, among which were Polypodium vulgare, 

 Veronica montana, Petasites alba, Chrysosplenium oppositifolium, and other 

 common species. In entomology Mr. Godward showed a specimen of 



