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splendid selection of tuning-forks and vibrative bars, lent by the late 

 President of the Royal Society, Dr. Wm. Spottiswoode ; lantern and 

 microscope lamps ; models of horizontal steam engines ; steam hammer ; 

 Channel Tunnel boring machine, &c. , &c. The scientific and Natural 

 History student will find much to interest him for a whole day, 

 irrespective of the other exhibits, and would be well repaid for a visit. 



Lepidoptera new to Yorkshire.— Among some micro-lepidoptera I 

 took in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield during the present year, and 

 which I recently submitted to Mr. C . G. Barrett for determination, I find 

 are three species hitherto unrecorded for the county. Sciaphila pertermia 

 1 took near Crosland Moor in July. Tinea merdella swarmed in July, in 

 the old lot of wool in New-street, alluded to at vol. viii. Nat, p. 94 ; and 

 the pretty Gelechia gem.mella I found flying in plenty in September, in 

 the old rough field adjoining Lepton Great Wood. Two other species 

 are new to the South-west Riding, viz : Gelechia desertella and G. similella, 

 both of which I took on Crosland Moor in July. — Geo. T. Porritt. 



NOTICES OF BOOKS, &g.—" The Annual Report and Transactions 

 of Wakefield Naturalists' Society, 1883." — Contains lists of papers read, 

 account of local rambles, &c. The library seems to be at present only a 

 small one, but may probably soon be increased. The most useful part of 

 the " Transactions " is the list, so far as published of the fauna and flora, 

 which shows that the society is doing good local work. These lists 

 include the shells — a very full one — migrant birds, with dates of arrival ; 

 hymenoptera, coleoptera (geodephaga only), and vertebrates. Other 

 departments of zoology, and also the botany and geology, are promised 

 in future issues. 



— " The Practical Naturalist," No. 9, vol. i., contains simple and 

 initiatory papers on skinning and preserving reptiles ; a short life-history 

 of Vanessa lo ; notes on the recognition of the common minerals ; notes 

 of meetings ; lists of macro-lepidoptera on the wing during June from 

 seven districts, &c. We presume, though it is not so said, that this work 

 is intended for beginners, and if it will only induce some of our young 

 people to commence and continue the study of some branch of Natural 

 History, it will do good service. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Aug. 21st, the president 

 in the chair. — Mr. Soppitt reported a visit to Grange, and exhibited 

 specimens of Epipactis latifolia, a species of tamarisk, and a fungus 

 commencing its growth on the juniper and completing it on the hawthorn. 

 He also showed a live young nightjar, found at Black Hills, Bingley 

 Wood, and reported that he had observed Hepiahis sylvinus there. Mr. 

 Andrews exhibited a specimen of Anagallis tenella found in Shipley Glen, 

 and a number of plants from Devonshire, among which were Euphorbia 



