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day nurseries in Paris, and these he found to be infected with Bacteria, 

 and certain ovoid cells and myceliums of Cryptogamic vegetation, the 

 particular species, not having yet been determined. The milk used in 

 these bottles, likewise became infected. The flev. H. H. Wood had 

 kindly sent fruiting specimens of Leptodon Smithii, for the Society's 

 herbarium, the beautiful little moss had been found fruiting by him in 

 Dorsetshire. Notes from Herr Jack's recently published monograph on 

 the European species of the genus Radvia were read by Mr. W. H. 

 Pearson, M.A., seven species are described, six of which are indigenous 

 to Britain, and three peculiar to our county. Three new species are 

 described, two of these are also found growing here : Radula Caringtoni, 

 named by Herr Jack in honour of our distinguished President, who first 

 discovered it : Badula commntata (Gottsche) and Radnla Germana (Jack), 

 the last species being the one not yet known as indigenous to Britain. 

 A description is also given of the rare Radnla Lindhevgiana (Gottsche) 

 not li. Lindenhergii as before erroneously named by some authorities ; 

 this species had been found in Westmoreland, by Mr. G. Stabler. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, Sept, 24th, — Mr. 

 J. Spencer, President, in the chair. He exhibited a new fossil plant in 

 a beautiful state of preservation, which is closely allied, if not identical 

 with, the new genus described and named by Messrs. Cash and Hicks, at 

 the York meeting of the British Association, under the name of 

 Myriophylloides Williamsoni. Not having seen the original specimen, 

 Mr, Spencer could not say whether his plant is of the same species or 

 not. This pretty little plant is about part of an inch in diameter 

 across the central axis of the stem, and in form it very much resembles 

 a thick waggon wheel. The spokes, 12 in number, are formed of a single 

 row of cells. The centre is composed of a number of very minute cells, 

 surrounded by three rows of larger cells, while the rim of the wheel is 

 formed of a double row of larger cells. The Myriophyllnms of the present 

 day are water plants, and this fossil genus is the first of the kind met 

 with in the coal strata, all the others being land plants. Mr. Spencer also 

 exhibited a slide containing spores from the Devonian rocks of Canada, 

 which he had mounted from specimens of bituminous shale, which he has 

 received from a friend who gathered it at Kettle Point, on the shores of 

 of Lake Huron. The spores have been described by Dr. Dawson, of 

 Montreal, the well known Canadian geologist, under the name of 

 Sporangites Huronensis. The shales are literally one mass of spores, and 

 are of marine origin, as they also contain Lingula, although the spores 

 belong to land plants. On Sept. 3rd, one of the workmen in Shrogg's 

 Park, Halifax, caught a large specimen of Sphinx coavolvuli, on the gib 

 of the large crane. — J. Ogden, Sec. 



The Fungus Foray of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — The 

 first meeting of the Union, exclusively devoted to a single branch of 

 natural history, took the form of a "foray among the funguses," on 



