Aug., 1889. 
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1882, January 25th; 1888, January 22nd; 1884, January 
12tli; 1885, February 8th; 1886, March 3rd; 1887, Feb¬ 
ruary 5th ; 1888, March 3rd ; 1889, January 26th. 
Jas. Saunders, Luton. 
Balea perversa in Nottinghamshire.— After seeing Mr. J. W. 
Williams, in London, and on my return to Nottingham, I referred to 
Mr. MussGn’s list and found that it contained several localities for 
Bal'd perversa , which are as follows :—“ Recorded from Colwick, 
Highfield House (rare); Annesley (rare, old church wall). Plentiful 
under stones of church wall at Staunton. S.E. Notts. Plentiful under 
bark and in cracks of willow trees at Darleton, Notts, April 23rd, 1886.” 
—Geo. W. Mellors, Second Avenue, Sherwood Rise, Nottingham. 
Imports of Satieties. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY.— Geological Section, July 16th. Mr. Clias. Pumphrey 
in the chair. Exhibition of specimens by Mr. Herbert Stone:— 
Galeopsis versicolor , Drosera rotundifolia, in flower; Vaccinium oxijcoccos, 
in fruit; Stratiotes aloides, from Aspley, near Warrington ; also, Pholas 
crispatus and Tubularia indivisa , from Hilbre Island, near Liverpool.— 
Sociological Section, July 23rd. Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., in the chair. 
Mr. Martineau exhibited Merisus intermedius , a hymenopterous insect, 
parasitic upon the Hessian fly ( Cecidomyia destructor). Mr. Hughes 
exhibited Lythrum salicaria , Malva moschata, Geranium pratense, 
Campanula Trachelium , Cercis siliquastrum, the Judas tree, Melilotus 
officinalis , Reseda luteola , and other plants from Evesham ; also, 
Verbascum nigrum , from St. Albans. 
BIRMINGHAM MICROSCOPISTS’ AND NATURALISTS’ 
UNION.—May 20th. Mr. J. W. Neville exhibited flowers of the 
Toothwort, Lathrcea squamaria; Mr. H. Hawkes, Puccinia sessilis and 
Stemonitis fusca ; Mr. Camm, Physarum cinereum, from a timber yard ; 
Mr. J. Moore, gizzard of Phyllobius aryentatus; Mr. Deakin, fish scales 
and teeth in carboniferous shale; Mr. Parker, quartz geode containing 
lead crystals.—May 27tli. Mr. Camm exhibited the following fungi 
under the microscope: —Lamprodervia irideum, Tilmadoche mutabilis, 
Pachnocybe subulata, and Stemonitis fusca , the latter from the 
plasmodium stage to the mature form. Mr. T. H. Waller, B.A., B.Sc., 
then gave a lecture on “Rowley Rag,” in which he said that this being 
a local rock would give everyone an opportunity of studying it to the 
fullest extent. It formed a sheet of considerable extent, reaching from 
Rowley Regis to Dudley, and through it several shafts were sunk to 
get at the coal beds below. In Earl Dudley’s pit 170 yards of basalt 
had to be bored through. There were two kinds of basalt, Roche and 
Bluestone; light veins were found in some specimens; these contained 
ten per cent, more silica. The texture of the rock varied immensely, 
one interesting feature being the sudden change of texture. The 
uncertainty of its cleavage appeared to depend on the normal jointing 
of the rock in the quarry. Its microscopic structure was described, 
