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The Naturalist, 



helgiaria, L. Alsns and Alexis, and E. glyphica. Mr. H. T. Soppitt 

 described a botanical ramble to Penyghent, and exhibited Botrychium 

 lunaria, Nephrodium rigida, Puccinia Betonicce, and j^cidium geranii. 

 Mr. B. Illingworth exhibited a fine living specimen of the barn owl {Strix 

 flammea) and larvse of D. ca&ruleocepliala from Thorne. Mr. J. FauU 

 exhibited several insects from Windermere, amongst which were 0. 

 pudibunda, E. dolabraria, &g. 



Meeting July 5th. — Mr. W, Jagger in the chair. A ramble to Bingley 

 was described by Messrs. Soppitt, Carter, and Firth. Mr. Brook 

 exhibited Drosera rotundifolia from near Bradford, and Geranium striatum. 

 Mr. Terry a number of insects, amongst which were A . fumata, A . luteata, 

 and E. heporata. Mr. Soppitt ^cidium menthce, Uromyces concentrica 

 and several other fungi. Mr. West some continental mosses including 

 Dicranum Mulilenheckii, Hypnum Halleri (ft.), Grimmia montana (ft,), 

 G. unicolor (ft.) 



Meeting July 19th, Mr. B. Spencer in the chair. — An interesting 

 lecture on ''The microscope," was given by Mr. J.E.Wilson. Mr. Ill- 

 ingworth exhibited a pair of merlin hawks. Mr. Bennett exhibited 

 various objects from Thorne Waste, amongst which were the three 

 British Droseras, Bhynchospora alba, and a number of insects, including 

 C, Davus. Mr. Saynor Linaria minor and Onobrychis sativa from 

 Bingley. — H. T. Soppitt. 



Elland-cum-Ge-eetland Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting 

 4th July, Mr. 0. C. Hanson, the president in the chair, who placed on 

 the table 30 botanical specimens of the neighbourhood ; Mr. Crowther 

 exhibited eggs of the kestrel ; Mr. F. Lumb, an egg of a jack snipe taken 

 on Ringstone Edge Moor, which raised a strong discussion on the proba- 

 bility of it not being the real jack snipe's egg. The parent bird was shot 

 two days after, near the place where the nest was found. — Albert 

 Fielding. 



HuDDEESFiELD Naturalists' Society. — Meeting June 20th, Mr. James 

 Varley in the chair, the following botanical specimens were laid on the 

 table by Messrs. Armitage, Wilkinson, and Woodhead -.—Atropa Bella- 

 donna, Erodium cicntarium, Scilla nutans, Spergula arvensis, Myosotis 

 Ijalustris, Hieracium aurantiacum, Hippocrepis comosa, from the banks of 

 the Dee, <fec. Messrs, Mosley and Ellis showed the following entomoloo-- 

 ical specimens : — Plusia bractea, P. festucce, P. chrysitis, P. pulchrina, P. 

 iota, Notodonta carmelita, and cucidlina, also a number of beetles taken 

 at Harden Moss. Mr, S, L, Mosley then gave an account of the last 

 ramble to the Great Wood at Lepton : there was an abundance of life 

 and vegetation ; in entomology, the members on their return, were 

 enabled to count upwards of 300 specimens on the sugar, which they 

 were unable to take because of the quantity they had procured during the 

 afternoon. Mr. Jno. Armitage then gave a lecture entitled " The Law 

 of Nature sowing her own Seed." 



