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exhibition at Bingley Hall clearly demonstrated that there was a 
desire among people generally to become better acquainted with 
natural history. One of the great wants of Birmingham was a good 
natural history museum, and he trusted that the time was not far 
distant when it would possess such a museum. He announced that 
Mr. Morley, who had filled the office of honorary secretary to the 
society for upwards of twelve years, was compelled to retire for a time 
from those duties he had so well performed, and referred to the many 
obligations which the society was under to Mr. Morley for his untiring 
work in their interests. He trusted that the well-earned rest which 
Mr. Morley would now enjoy would enable him so to improve in health 
that the members might soon see him again among them. Mr. John 
Udall had been appointed to act as deputy secretary till the end 
of the year.—Mr. R. W. Chase exhibited Bluethroat, Cyanecula 
suecica, shot at Blankeney, Norfolk, Sept., 1884; dipper, Cinclus 
aquaticus , Richmond, Yorkshire, Aug. 8th, 1884, showing white feathers 
in wings and tail, an unusual occurrence in this species ; black-bellied 
dipper, Cinclus melanogaster, Humber Bank, Lincolnshire, Oct. 24th, 
1885 ; St. Kilda wren, female, Troglodytes hirtensis, St. Kilda, July 
10th, 1886 ; Kentish plover, male and female, JEgialitis cantiana , 
Breydon Flats, Norfolk, April 29tli, 1886 ; great snipe, Gallinago 
major , near Yarmouth, very rare in spring. Birds in down.—Hobby, 
Falco subbuteo, Weetliley Wood, near Alcester; Arctic tern, Sterna 
macrura, common tern, Sterna Jluviatilis, Fame Islands ; and little 
tern, Sterna minuta , Towyn. Nests and eggs.—Reed warbler, Acro- 
cephalus streperus, two nests placed one above the other upon the same 
reeds, both nests containing eggs, with the addition of a cuckoo’s egg 
in the upper nest, Ely, June 22nd, 1886 ; grasshopper warbler, Locus- 
tella ncevia, Blaydon, June 9tli, 1886 ; peregrine falcon, Falcoperegrinus, 
Isle of Lewis, April 5th, 1886 ; merlin, Falco cesalon, Isle of Lewis, 
May 21st, 1886 ; common teal, Querquedula crecca, Norfolk; garganey 
teal, Q. circia, May 1st, 1884, Hickling ; wliimbrel, Niimenius phceopus , 
Shetland, May 24th, 1885. Prof. W. Hillhouse, M.A., exhibited an 
ingenious apparatus to measure the amount of water given off by the 
leaves of a plant. Dr. Crooke exhibited tubercle bacilli, in a 
lymphatic gland from the horse ; bacilli, stained red, shown under a 
Zeiss ^ oil immersion objective ; also, anthrax bacilli, in the lung of 
a mouse. Mr. Horace Pearce, F.G.S., exhibited granites from Aberdeen, 
and other rock sections, amongst which were the following: granite, 
very micaceous, and jasper, from the shore, Aberdeen ; and granite from 
Peterhead, prepared by G. Healey, Esq., Bowness. Lepidodendron, 
tree stem from coal measures, Halifax; and Sternbergia, fossil stem of 
tree, from Oldham, Lancashire. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., exhibited 
the following fungi, from the neighbourhood of Birmingham : Lactanus 
torminosus , L. vellereus , Boletus badius, B. piperatus , Agaricus heteroclitus, 
Ag. cervinus , Aq. testaceus , Russula Integra , R. citrina, R. ochroleuca , 
Hygrophorus cldorophanus , Hydnurn repandum , Ag. speciosus , Marasmius 
peronatus, and an abnormal form of Polypoms sulphureus. Mr. 
F. J. Cullis, Dipsacus Fullonum, the fuller’s teasel, compared with 
Dipsacus sylvestris , the common teasel. Mr. T. Bolton, Corethra 
plumicornis, developed from pupa of glass larva in the Bingley Hall 
Exhibition ; Fterostylaria parasitica , called by some the polite worm, 
from its graceful movement; Stephanoceros Eiclihornii, Floscularia ornata , 
Leptodora hyalina , Plumatella repens , &c. Mr. W. H. Wilkinson, 
Anacharis alsinastrum, showing the circulation of cell contents ; also, 
sections of the following lichens : Solorina saccata, showing the spores 
in situ-, Collema granulosum and Lecidea sanguinaria, both being double 
