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shire. This moss is not in the last edition of the London Catalogue, 

 except in the excluded species, as having previovisly been reported on 

 imperfect evidence. He also shewed some rare Scotch mosses, and about 

 100 species of lichens. — H. T. Soppitt. 



Elland-ctjm-Greetland Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting 

 9th JNIay, Mr. C. C. Hanson (the president) in the chair. A number of 

 local botanical specimens were placed on the table. The following 

 summer migrants were reported : — April 11th, wheatear ; April 13th, 

 sand martin and yellow wagtail ; April 15th, swallow and house martin ; 

 April 17th, willow wren and Ray's wagtail ; May 1, cuckoo, tree pipit, 

 and chiff-chaff ; May 2nd, garden warbler and redstart. — Albert 



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HuDDEESFiELD Natuealists' Society. — Meeting 2cth April, the 

 president (Mr. C. P. Hobkirk) in the chair. In botany there was a large 

 number of specimens laid on the table by Messrs. Shaw, Armitage, and 

 Bartlam. Among the number were the following, viz. : — Veronica 

 Beccabunga, Luzida pilom, L. campestris, Vinca minor (Waterloo Bridge), 

 Angdica syJcedris, Bamtncnlns auricomus, Caltha pcdnsiris, Lathrcea 

 squamaria (Brighouse), Linaria cymhalaria, Narcissus psendo-narcissiis. 

 Mr. Varley showed the two following specimens from Lythara, viz., Braha 

 verna and Viola tricolor. Mr C. P. Hobkirk exhibited the following 

 mosses, viz., Bypnnm arcnatnm, H. pcdnstre, Licranella scpiarrosa frcm 

 the moors, and Campylop\is introjiexus from Jersey. In entomology Mr. 

 F. Ellis showed Teniocanipa ruhricosa and T. instahilis. Mr. Varley 

 recorded having seen and heard the following spring migrants : — 

 wheatear, willow warbler, bluetit, grasshopper warbler, and Pay's 

 wagtail. Mr. Jno. Armitage then gave his lecture on the " Fertilization 

 of Flowers." 



Meeting 7th May, Mr. S. L. Mosley in the chair. — Mr. James 

 McKenzie exhibited the following from Barrow : — Hematite, or kidney 

 ore ; azurite and lignite, from Festiniog, North Wales : a large stalag- 

 mite and selenite, Nobe Cavern, South Australia ; also echinodermata, 

 from the chalk. South Australia ; these latter, he thought, had not yet 

 been found in this country. In conchology a number of beautiful 

 specimens of Elenchus roseus: In botany Messrs. Shaw, Wilkinson, and 

 Fisher laid on the table a number of specimens of local plants. Mr. S. 

 L. Mosley exhibited a specimen of the sawffy {Tridiiosoma hetnlce), 

 which had just freed itself from one of the cocoons he laid before the 

 members on the 9th of last month. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Societ^\ — Meeting April 

 25th, the president (Mr. S. J. Capper) in the chair. — The president read 

 a paper entitled Lepidoptera collecting in the New Forest," in which 

 he detailed his experience of several holidays in that delightful part of 

 the country, giving a lengthy list of the species of lepidoptera captured 

 by himself and his companions. He remarked the great profusion 



