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and were they specifically one and the same, I should certainly have 
expected to have found not one, but several, of them taken from 
P. contecta agreeing with those characteristic features of shell I have 
just enunciated as found in P. vivipara. I have never found one such, 
and I have carefully searched. And this, I hold, is a very good reason 
to believe in the specific distinctness of the two forms, no matter 
what the internal anatomy may be of the adult forms. No one can 
appreciate the striking difference of shell-form in the embryos of these 
two forms unless they see them.—J. W. Williams, 35, Mitton, 
Stourport. 
In the North Warwickshire Cambrian Shales, at Chapel End, a 
bed of blue slate has been discovered. It is about 3ft. thick, and 
contains fossils. Olenus, Agnostus, &c., have been found. The dip is 
54 degrees, same as the rest of the shales. This blue slate possibly 
indicates that the Warwickshire Cambrians are more nearly related to 
the Charnwood Rocks than has hitherto been supposed.—W. Andrews. 
ports of Satieties. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY.— Microscopical Section Meeting, September 3rd, 1889. 
The President, Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A., in the chair. Mr. A. H. 
Martineau exhibited Atticuspavonia major (the Great Emperor Moth), 
from Ilklev, Yorkshire; Mr. W. B. Grove, M.A., Agaricus lampropus , 
from Sutton ; and for Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., Sphcerotheca Gastagnei 
(the Hop Mildew); Goleospormm Senecionis, and Polystigma rubrurn , from 
the south of England, and some of them under the miscroscope. Mr. 
S. Walliker, a large collection of Mosses, Hepaticse, and Lichens from 
Germany, some of which were very fine, especially the Cladonias 
amongst the Lichens.— Biological Section, September 10th. Mr. 
W. B. Grove, M.A., in the chair. Mr. J. Udall exhibited Drosera 
rotundifolia in fruit from Stourport; also, for Mr. J. T. Blakemore, a 
hen’s egg weighing Jib. Mr. W. H. Wilkinson exhibited the white 
variety of Galluna vulgaris , from Sutton Park, where the heather is 
unusually fine and abundant this year. Mr. Bagnall exhibited, for 
Mr. J. B. Stone, F.L.S., Boletus edulis, B. scaber, Agaricus rubescens, 
Calocera viscosa, and other fungi, from Rhyl; also, for Miss J. R. 
Gingell, Drosera intermedia , Guscuta epithymum , Hypericum elodes, and 
other rare plants, from Cornwall; also, for Mr. Walliker, Diphyscium 
foliosum , Pogonatum aloides, and a number of other mosses, from the 
Riviera. Mr. Grove exhibited, for Mr. Oliver, Polyporus vitreus, from 
Edgbaston. Mr. J. Edmonds exhibited Peltigera canina, a foliaceous 
lichen, from Arley.— Geological Section, September 17th. Mr. W. R. 
Hughes, chairman. Exhibition of specimens. (1) Mr. J. E. Bagnall, 
for Mr. W. R. Hughes : A number of plants from South Devonshire, 
including Anagallis ccerulea, Galamintha officinalis, Erigeron aci'is, Aster 
tripolium, &c. (2) Mr. J. E. Bagnall: Silene anglica, a rare colonist; 
Russula heterophylla, R. depallens, Cantharellus aurantiacus, and other 
fungi, from Coleshill. (3) Mr. W. H. Wilkinson: A collection of plants 
from Ramsgate district, including Lepidium draba (the hairy cress), 
Hyoscyamus niger (henbane), Reseda lutea (cut-leaved mignonette), also 
an abnormal form of Canterbury Bell, Gampamda Medium album, in 
which the stem was much fasciated, and thirteen flowers combined 
into one long and folded bell ; also a sponge, Halichondria oculata 
(Johnstone), from the shore near Sandgate, Kent. 
