Ordinary Meeting, December 13th, 1870. 
E. W. Binney, F.R.S., F.G.S., President, in the Chair. 
Mr. J ohn Angell, Science Master at the Manchester Free 
Grammar School, and Mr. Carl Schorlemmer, Senior Assist- 
ant in the Chemical Laboratory of Owens College, were 
elected Ordinary Members of the Society. 
The President stated that the “ grub,” as the larva of the 
Harry Longlegs, the Tijpula oleracea of entomologists, was 
commonly called, had made great ravages with meadow 
grass during the last summer. In the eastern parts of the 
township of Moston, near this city, some fifty or sixty acres 
had been for the most part destroyed. After the land had 
been manured in the spring, the grass showed well until 
the middle of May, when it began to disappear and leave 
the ground nearly bare. In the space of a square foot he 
found twelve of the grubs, and all the roots of the grass 
under that space appeared to be quite eaten through. 
Several remedies, such as salt and gas lime, have been pro- 
posed for destroying the grub, but these, although effective, 
exercise for the time a deleterious influence on the grass. 
The fancy onion growers of the district, chiefty weavers, 
keep them down by careful watching. He had been sur- 
prised at the growing of onions betwixt Oldham and Man- 
chester by working men, one of whom had produced a 
specimen 25 ounces in weight. This did not obtain the 
prize, which was awarded to an onion grown at Hollinwood 
of 29| ounces. For many years past the south-east 
part of Lancashire has been noted for growing large goose- 
berries and celery, and it is now equally famed for its 
onions. 
Proceedings — L is. & Phil. Soc.— Vod. i.— No. 6. — Session 1870-71. 
