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migrants have been too numerous to keep account of. On the Dunford 

 moors^ the dipper and ring-ouzel (the last a migrant) were seen ; the 

 sparrow-hawk seen at Rockley June 10, Stainborough, July 8. The heron 

 kingfisher, snipes, and lapwings, have been noted. Mr. Hailstone 

 writes (Julj 15th) — Eleven terns flew over Walton Lake from east to 

 west.— T. L. 



Ilkley Scientific Club. — At a largely attended and successful meeting 

 of ladies and gentlemen of Ilkley and neighbourhood, held on the 12th of 

 May last, it was resolved — after listening to addresses delivered on behalf 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union by Messrs. C. H. Bothamley, F.CS., 

 and Wm. Denison Roebuck — to form a scientific club for Ilkley. Mr, 

 F. W. Fison, M.A., F.C.S., was chosen as president, and Messrs. Vincent 

 Taylor, B.A., and James Brodie, as secretaries. Vice-presidents were 

 also chosen, and a committee including several ladies. Already a good 

 number of members have been enrolled, and a fortnightly series of excur- 

 sions are arranged for the summer months. The winter session is to be 

 occupied by meetings for reading of papers, and exhibition of specimens. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly 

 meeting, June 26th, the president (Mr. S. J. Capper) in the chair. — After 

 the transaction of the ordinary business, the Rev. S. Fletcher Williams 

 read a paper on " Darwin and Darwinism," which was listened to with 

 great interest. Mr. Williams sketched the life of Darwin, described his 

 personal characteristics as^a man, and reviewed the Darwinian doctrine of 

 natural selection. During the conversazione Mr. B. Cooke exhibited 

 insects collected during a Whitsuntide excursion to Sherwood Forest, 

 including the rare Mordellistena abdominalis ; Mr, T. Von Sobbe, a box 

 of European lepidoptera ; Mr. W. Gardner, a box of Welsh mountain 

 coleoptera ; and the honorary secretary (Dr. Ellis), a smoky variety of 

 Abraxas ulmata captured at Ince BlundelL 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — Meeting July 17th, Mr. Thos. 

 Brittain, F.R.M.S., in the chair. — Mr. Ashton brought some fern fronds 

 for identification, which came originally from Jersey, and proved to be a 

 finely divided form of Asplenium lanceolaUim, Mr. Stanley exhibited a 

 number of hepatics from Derbyshire, recently gathered. Mr. W. Ho 

 Pearson read a few notes on Conocephalus cornicus and Preissia commutata, 

 and exhibited specimens. The latter species had recently been collected 

 by Mrs. Perrin, in Cheedale, and by Mr. Holt near Buxton, This rather 

 widely distributed species is not recorded for Derbyshire in the London 

 catalogue. Mr. Pearson also brought specimens of Mylea Taylori, with 

 colesides, collected recently by Mr, Geo. Stabler in Mardale. Mr. J. W. 

 Atkinson shewed specimens of a micro-fungus, Nectria mammoidea — a 

 recent species not described in Cook's Handbook. The specimens had 

 been found by him on the dead stems of furze at Bowness, Windermere, 

 May, 1882. — Thos. Rogers, Hon. Sec. 



