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lepidoptera have been added to the list, making a total of 448 species 

 noted in this district ; to the coleoptera about 30 species have been 

 added. Mr. Firth reported for the vertebrate section, and said 22 

 species have been added to the mammalia, birds 16, reptiles 5, fishes 3 — 

 making a total of 46 species. Mr. West exhibited marine shells, and 

 specimens of polished Devonshire corals. 



Dewsbury Natuealists' Society. —Annual meeting, 13th December. 

 The following were elected officers for 1884 : — president. Dr. Watts ; 

 secretary and treasurer, J. Summersgill. The report stated that the 

 society was still in a sound and flourishing condition. The botanical 

 section showed most activity, 25 plants during the past season having 

 been added to the local flora, which now numbers 393. Satisfaction was 

 also expressed at the election of one of the members of this sociaty — Mr. 

 P. F. Lee — to the post of phanerogamic secretary, Botanical Section, of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — J. Summersgill, Sec. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Meeting, Nov. 

 28th, the president (Mr. S. J. Capper) occupying the chair. — The 

 secretary (Dr. J. W. Ellis) read a paper in continuation of his previous 

 articles on. The beetles of the Liverpool district," this being Part iv., 

 containing the Brachelytra, or short-winged beetles, of which he enumer- 

 ated about 220 species as occurring, or having occurred, in the district, 

 with their localities, from the observations of Messrs. Archer, Kinder, 

 "Wilding, and himself. Among these were several species which have 

 hitherto been taken only very sparingly in Britain, and others which are 

 very local in their habitats. During the conversazione Mr. Wilding 

 exhibited recently captured coleoptera, and Mr. Dixon a coleopterous 

 lignivorous larva feeding in willow wood, from Crosby. — J. W. Ellis, 

 Hon. Sec. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — Mr. W. H. Pearson, vice- 

 president, in the chair, who exhibited three hepatics recently collected in 

 Wales, and new to the Principality, viz :— Scapmiia uliginosa at Clogwyn- 

 dur-Arddu, and Marsupella sphacelata and Cephalozia fluitans, at Glydr 

 Yawr. Mr. Wm. Forster exhibited three fine varieties of Folystichum 

 aculeatum, viz., cruciatum, pulcherrimum, and corymbiferum ; these were 

 from the fernery^of Colonel Jones, Bristol. The hon. secretary laid upon 

 the table a collection of mosses which had been presented to the society 

 by Prof. N. Conrad Kindberg, of Sweden. The mosses were from the 

 Dovrefield, Norway. An interesting paper was read the same evening by 

 Mr. J. Cash on " William Wilson's Early Work as a Bryologist in 

 Lancashire and Cheshire." — Thos. Rogers, Hon. Sec. 



Ovenden Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting. — The president- 

 (Mr. James Spencer) gave the annual address, the subject being ''Fossil 

 Fungi." The paper was illustrated by enlarged drawings of fossil 

 parasites, and also by microscopical sections of the real specimens, which, 

 were shown under the society's microscope ; among these were included 



