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paper, on " Air, Earth, and Water in Relation to Health " — the con- 

 cluding paper of the series on " The Humble Forms of Plant Life." 

 After a vote of thanks had been passed, a ramble was arranged to the 

 Carlinghow Banks and Howley Ruins for May the 31st. 



Lancashie,e and Cheshire Entomological Society. — Monthly 

 meeting, April 28th, the president (Mr. S. J. Capper) occupying the chair. 

 — A paper was read entitled "Entomological Notes from Grange and 

 Witherslack," communicated by Mr. Shuttleworth, of Preston. In this 

 were detailed the results of a day's collecting in 1881 , and a week s in 

 1883, in this entomologically famous neighbourhood. During the conver- 

 scwione, Rev. Thomas J. Moore, curator of the Museum, exhibited a nest 

 of a species of mud-wasp, which he had found in the interior of a clock 

 brought from the West Indies to be repaired, the nest having stopped the 

 works. The secretary (Dr. Ellis) exhibited living specimens of the water 

 spider from Discard, and a living Cetonia awata from Leeds, where it had 

 been hibernating in thatch. 



Leeds Naturalists' Club and Scientific Association. — Meeting 

 May 19th, Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L.S., in the chair.— There was 

 a good muster of members, and numerous objects were on view. On 

 behalf of Mr. W. Storey, of Pateley, were exhibited freshly gathered 

 specimens of the adder's tongue, moonwort, bush vetch, petty whin, and 

 field speedwell. Mr. Charles Smethurst showed a specimen of the oxlip 

 from Crake Hall, Bedale ; and larvae of the purple barred and lemon 

 sallow moths, recently secured at Addingham, near Ilkley, Mr. Henry 

 Marsh brought a series of ammonites collected at Whitby, and Mr. S. S. 

 Peat specimens of quartz containing gold, lately received from a relative at 

 Charters Towers, Queensland. There was further shown on behalf of Mr. 

 Storey, Natterer's bat, and several slugs, moths, beetles, and bees, and a 

 box of miscellaneous insects captured in Mdderdale more than 20 years ago 

 by a Mr. Hutchinson. The more interesting of these were wasp beetle, 

 ruby-tailed fly, tiger beetle, and cardinal beetle. Mr. F. Emsley exhibited 

 the pollen sacs of the honey bee, and Mr. Walter C. Scott a perfectly blue 

 egg of the blackbird, taken lately at Arthington. 



Manchester Cryftogamic Society. — At the usual monthly meeting 

 in April, Dr. B. Carrington, F.R.S.E., in the chair, Mr. W. H. Pearson 

 exhibited a series of mosses and hepatics which he and Dr. Carrington 

 had collected during the Easter holidays in the Lake District. They had 

 been very fortunate in finding many rarities ; amongst them may be 

 mentioned the following : — Glyphomitrium Damesii, the first record for 

 England ; Orthotrichum Eutchinsice, Leptodon Smithii, and Hypnum 

 demissum. Amongst hepatics the chief prize was Lejeunia microscopica, 

 the only previous record being in the south of Ireland ; Adelardhus 

 decipiens, only previously been found in Ireland and Wales ; Lepidozia 

 cwpressviia, new to Cumberland ; Radula aquilegia, Radula valuta, new 

 to England ; Plagiochila tridenticulata ; and other rare hepatics were also 



