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stained. Mr. W. P. Marshall, M.I.C.E., Mr. J. Edmonds, and Mr. 
J. Udall were also amongst the exhibitors. Biological Section, 
October 12th, the President in the chair.—Mr. W. R. Hughes, F.L.S., 
exhibited the fruit of the sumach. Mr. W. B. Grove exhibited the 
following fungi: Ag. muscarius, Ag. flavo-brunneus, Ag. columbetta, Ag. 
jubatus , Ag. sericellus, Ag. lampropus , Ag. pennatus, Ag. mesophceus, 
Cortinarius torvus, C. bolaris , C. paleacens, Gompliidius gracilis , liussula 
depallem , Lactarius pyrogalus , L. torminosus , Clavaria incequalis, Lyco- 
perdon ccelatum, and Iicestelia cancellata , from various places in 
Warwickshire; (for Mr. C. T. Parsons) Iicestelia cancellata , from 
Pershore, Worcestershire ; (for Mr. J. Hamson) Ag. clavipes and Ag. 
semiorbicularis, from Bedford. Mr. W. P. Marshall exhibited Tubularia 
indivisa , Goryne pusilla, Plumularia pinnata, Noctiluca miliaris, Obelia 
dichotoma and gonozoids of the same, zoea of barnacle, larvte of crab 
and shrimp, and young hermit crab, all mounted specimens, made 
during the Tenby excursion. Mr. .J. Potts exhibited thirty-seven 
photographs of places in Pembrokeshire, taken during the same 
excursion. Mr. R. W. Chase exhibited the razorbill, Alca torda, adult 
male ; common guillemot, Lomvia troile, adult male, also in down, and 
eggs; ring-eyed guillemot, Lomvia lacrymans, adult male, all in 
breeding plumage; black guillemot, Uria gi'ylle, adult in summer 
plumage, and young in winter plumage, also adult changing to winter ; 
little auk or rotclie, Mergulus alle , male in winter plumage ; puffin, 
Fratercula arctica, adult female in summer plumage, and young in 
first plumage ; also, four photographs of the guillemot colony on the 
Pinnacle Rock, at the Fame Islands, and a photograph of the egg of 
the great auk, Alca impennis, natural size. Mr. W. P. Marshall then 
read the “ Report of the Excursion to Tenby, in June, 1886,” which 
will be printed in due course. Microscopical General Meeting, 
October 19tli. Mr. W. B. Grove in the chair. Mr. Bolton exhibited 
(for Mr. B. W. Westwood) an abnormal growth of pear, a small pear 
growing out from the centre of a larger one. Mr. Tlios. Clarke 
exhibited joints of the stem of an encrinite, probably Poteriocrinus 
crassus , from the lower carboniferous limestone, Holy Island ; these 
are called “ seals” by the natives, and used as such ; they attribute to 
them a vegetable origin. He also exhibited a number of flies, bred 
from larvae, which fed on a fungus belonging to the genus Russula, 
from Witton. Mr. W. B. Grove exhibited a very fine specimen of 
Pohyporus frondosus , fourteen inches across and eight inches high, 
which grew at the foot of an oak tree in Hagley Park, and (for Mr. H. 
Hawkes) Polyporus salignus (new to tho district), also Ag. jubatus, Ag. 
melaleucus, Ag. glutinosus (new), Ag. chalybceus, Ag. mamrnosus, Ag. 
sinapizans (new), Ag . spadiceo-griseus , Hygrophorus pratensis , H.unguinosus 
(new), Clavaria fumosa (new), Fistulina hepatica, Bovista nigrescens , and 
other fungi, from Hagley Park. A discussion ensued, in which Mr. 
J. Levick, Mr. W. H. France, and others took part. 
LEICESTER LITERARY AND PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
—Section D, Zoology and Botany. Chairman, F. T. Mott, F.R.G.S. 
Monthly Meeting, Wednesday, October 20th. Attendance, ten (two 
ladies). The following objects were exhibited, viz.: By Mr. W. A. Vice, 
a number of fresh fungi, including Schizophyllum commune , a Peziza, 
Hygrophorus niveus, and several Agarics. By Mr. E. F. Cooper, pieces 
of dead sticks thickly covered with the beautiful pink fungus Tuber- 
cularia vulgaris. By Miss Grundy, a dwarfed specimen of Campanula 
glomerata from the Chalk Downs, and a pencil sketch of a beech tree 
