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BOOKS RECEIVED. 



The Scottish Naturalist, No. xvii, for July 1887. [Prof. J. W. H. Trail, Editor. 

 Notarisia, Anno ii, No. 6, Luglio 1887. [G. B. de Toni e David Levi, Redattori. 

 Science Gossip. No. 272, for August 1887. [Messrs, Chatto & Windus, Publi.shers. 

 P. Fox Lee — The Flora of Dewsbury and Neighbourhood, 8vo reprint, 24 pages, 



1887. - [The Author. 



Watson Botanical Exchange Club. — 3rd Ann. Rept., 1886-7. [P.F.Lee, Distributor. 

 Osmond W. Jeffs. — The Calday-Grange Fault, West Kirby, 8vo reprint, 4 pages, 



photograph and plan, [The Author. 



Osmond W. Jeffs, — The Geological History of Storeton Quarry; and Geological 



Note on the Bromborough Excursion ; 8vo rept., 8 pp. and plate, 1887. [Author. 

 Harold A. Jeffs. — The Nettle-Sting, and other Plant Hairs, 8vo reprint, i page, 



1887. [Author. 

 The Manx Note-Book— No, 11, July 1887. [Mr. A. W. Moore, Editor. 



Societe Royale Malacologique de Belgique. — Proces-verbaux, Annee 1887, Sfeuilles. 



[La Societe. 



The Journal of Conchology, vol. 5, No. 7, July 1887. [Mr, J, W. Taylor, Editor. 

 Osmond W. Jeffs. — Occurrence of Copper in the Keuper Sandstone at the 

 Peckforton Hills, Cheshire — 8vo, 5-page reprint. [Author. 

 Liverpool Science Students' Association. — Ann, Rep^, March 1887. [Association. 

 Revue Bryologique, 14® Annee, 1887, 4- [Mons. T. Husnot, Redacteur. 



The Young Naturalist, Part xcii, for August 1887. [Mr, J. E. Robson, Editor. 

 The Midland Naturalist, vol. x, No. 1 16, for Aug. 1887. [The Editors, Birmingham. 

 The Essex Naturalist, No. 7, for July 1887. [The Essex Field Club. 



Yorkshire Neuroptera and Orthoptera. — I am anxious during the 



present and several future seasons to work up the Neuroptera and Orthoptera of 

 our county as much as possible, with a view to publishing a list of species, with 

 their localities, etc, and shall be very grateful to all entomologists (or other 

 naturalists) who, when out collecting their own particular groups of objects, will 

 kindly kill and pin (of course they need not trouble to set them) one or two or 

 three specimens of any species they may come across, and send them to me at the 

 end of the season — or oftener if it be not too much trouble. The families in the 

 Neuroptera wanted are the Zz^(f//?///^f<? (Dragon-flies), /'(jr//^^? (Stone-flies), viViz//fl'i?- 

 Raphidiidce (Snake-flies), Osmylidcp, Henierobidce., C/^r^w/Zi/i? (Lace wing-flies), 

 Coniopteryt^i\\(B^ Panorpidce (Scorpion-flies), and the Trichopterce (Caddis-flies). 

 The two other British groups, Psocidce and EphetnendtB (May-flies), I do not 

 propose to touch at present. The Orthoptera include the ForficulidiB (Earwigs), 

 BlattidiE (Cockroaches), Acrididce (Grasshopper and Locusts), and the Achetidd 

 (Cricketsi, all of which, with the exception of the several universally abundant 

 n.nd distributed species, are wanted,— Geo. T. Porritt, Greenfield House,- 

 Huddersfield, May i8th, 1887. 



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