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PROCEEDINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES. 
Volume II. of the Proceedings of the Sheffield Naturalists’ Club 72 
pp., 2/-), has been published, under the editorship of Mr. C. Bradshaw, 
and contains the reports for 1913-14. Among the papers printed we notice 
Field Notes made in July 1903 (Birds in Sheffield district), by Prof. C. J 
Patten, who also contributes some photographs of birds. Mr. E. Snelgrove 
refers to an interesting ‘ Sheffield Plant List of a Century Ago ’ ; Mr. C. 
Bradshaw illustrates and describes ' Some Calcite Crystal from a Coal Pit 
at Sheffield,’ and Mr. C. F. Innocent writes on ‘ Dr. Deakin and the Flori- 
graphia Britannica.’ Mr. A. Brittain gives some ‘ Observations on 
Sheffield Univalve Mollusca,’ and Mr. A. W. Bartlett describes ‘A New 
Photo fry] Sweet Cicely. IT. Fox. 
Field Botany in the Sheffield district.’ The volume forms a very creditable 
record and the Sheffield Society is to be congratulated on the local nature 
of its publication. The only complaint we can make is that this small 
part of 72 pp. should be called a volume. On account of the difficulty in 
binding, it would have been better as \ ol. 2 Part 1. The accompanying 
block is reproduced by permission of the editor. 
The Annual Report of the Manchester Entomclogical Society (56 pp., 
is. 6d.) has just been published, and has a valuable record of the Society’s 
meetings, and lists of local records, as well as Mr. \Y. Buckley’s Presidential 
Address dealing with his personal experience in collecting and breeding 
Acidalia cotitiguaria ; Mr. J. H. Watson writes a careful account of ‘ New 
Hybrids and Races of Philosatnia and Antherea,’ which is illustrated by 
a beautiful coloured plate showing three ' New Saturnidae.’ The report 
contains three plates, the first two of which are not numbered, and the 
third is numbered plate 1. 
Yol. 1, No. 6 of the Journal of the Torquay Natural History Society, 
contains a description of Squilla Desmarestii Risso by Major E. V . Elwes, 
and an abstract of a paper by the same writer on ‘ P. H. Gosse as a Natural- 
ist.’ Mr. A. R. Hunt writes on ‘ Kent’s Cavern : Some Doubts and Diffi- 
culties ’ ; Mr. S. C. Chapman on ‘Animal Organisms in Water-Pipes,’ 
and Mr. A. J. Jukes- Browne on 'The Lost Land of Torbay.’ There is 
also an interesting sketch of William Pengelly, by his youngest daughter, 
Mrs. Julian. 
Naturalist, 
