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public museum for Hnddersfield. They are at present in the rooms of 

 the Literary and Scientific Society, where they will be publicly exhibited, 

 as soon as the arrangements are completed. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, &c.—" Botanical Exchange Club of British 

 Isles. — Report for 1880." The recorder regrets that the number of 

 plants for this year's distributicm falls short of last year's, being 3,300 as 

 against 4,800. Among them is a new variety, Rujjpia rostellata, var. 

 nana, BosweU, from Orkney Islands, along with a considerable collection 

 of other plants from same province. Mr. G. Webster sends a number of 

 Buhi from near York. Linnea borealis has been gathered in another wood 

 in Berwickshire —being a second locality for this rare plant : and Messrs. 

 H. and J. Groves send a new Spartina, S. Tunmsendi, Groves, from 

 mudflats, Hytlie, S. Hants. The report is a very interesting one. — 



Xveporls of Societies. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meetings Aug. 2nd and IGtli, Mr. T. 

 Lister in the chair. — On the resignation of Mr. C. Bellamy, corresponding 

 secretary, Mr. W. E. Brady was appointed. Mr. Drury, of Tankersley 

 Rectory, presented a number of eggs from the Farne Islands for the 

 museum, including those of the Sandwich tern, black-headed gull with 

 varieties, eider duck's egg and silky down, guillemot with several 

 varieties, cormorant, sparrow hawk ; and the chairman the Handbook 

 of Pontefract, with sketches of the antiquities, soil, and geological forma- 

 tions, prepared for the Yorkshire Mechanics' Union's late visit ; also 

 Cook's Micographia Restaurata," published in 1745, from the original 

 edition of 1677. The entomological section's report was read by Mr. 

 W. E. Brady. Several species of lepidoptera were recorded for the 

 month in this district, among them being JDicranura bifida, Agrotis triti i, 

 Zeuzera aiscidi, Orthosia suspeda, and JCylophasia scolopacina. Mr. 

 J. Harrison gave a list of 70 species of lepidoptera he noted in the New 

 Forest on a recent visit. A box of insects and a few fossils were 

 exhibited. Several communications were laid before the meeting — one 

 from Mr. C. Wemyss, Cannon Hall, August 1st, that the marten (the 

 largest of the Mustelidce) which was taken on the moors beyond Peni- 

 stone, had escaped, and could not be re-captured by the keepers dogs. 

 Mr. G. H. Teasdale wrote that he had purchased a hawfinch, which was 

 rescued from a sparrow-hawk. — T. L. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting August 2nd, Mr. B. 

 Spencer in the chair. — A paper was read on " Natural History Observa- 

 tions," by Mr. Terry, who exhibited a number of objects in illustration 

 of his remarks. Mr. Firth exhibited a black variety of X. yolyodon from 



