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sundry specimens from rocks above Santa Fe, New Mexico ; Lime¬ 
stone, from Manitou Cavern, Colorado, cave in limestone rock, similar 
to Mammoth Cave, Kentucky ; ironstone from rocks above Las Vegas, 
New Mexico ; copper ore, from Rocky Mountains Slope, Arizona, too 
great distance and not rich enough to pay carriage; limestone and 
shales, from rocks forming Niagara Falls—the shale perishes below the 
limestone, causing the limestones to break down. By Mr. Clarke, a 
slide of pond life, from King’s Norton excursion, July ‘25th, containing 
Bosmina longirostris , Diaptamas Castor , Volvox Globator, Spirogyra 
veglecta in conjugation, Auurcea stipitata. By Mr. Bolton, Plumatella, 
from King’s Norton. By Mr. Udall, a trilobite (Calymene Blumenbachii), 
from Dudley. —General Meeting, August 4tli. Mr. J. Morley exhibited 
a fasciated stem of vine, showing its gradual division into the normal 
condition ; also a sprig of maple (Acer campestre), in which the leaves 
were covered with the bright red galls of an insect f Cynips). Mr. T. 
Bolton exhibited Lemanea Jiuviatilis and Batrachospermum moniliforme , 
var. pulcherrimum, freshwater algae, from near Llangollen ; also Daplinia 
reticulata , from Sutton. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., exhibited the following 
plants from North Wales: —Cotyledon umbilicus (2 feet high), Orobanche 
hedene, Saxifraga stellar is , Sedum Telephium , Sedum anglicum, Drosera 
rotundifolia, Verbena officinalis , Orchis maculata, Nartheciurn ossifragum , 
Wahlenbergia hederacea , Sambucus EIndus, Myrica Gale , Blechnum 
spleant, Aspleniuni Adiantum nigrum, Asp. Trichomanes, Lastrea montana, 
Polypodium Phegopteris, Lycopodium clavatum , Lyc. Selaginoides, Hygro- 
phorus conicus, Boletus luteus, Helotium (cniginosurn (oak impregnated 
with mycelium), and Cantharellus cibarius .— Biological Section, August 
11th.—Mr. R. W. Chase in the chair. Mr. T. Bolton, F.R.M.S., exhibited 
Pteronais parasita, vulgarly known as the Polite Worm, in allusion to 
its habit of nodding its head and flapping its apparent wings; and 
Alcyonella fungosa, both from Alvechurch. Mr. J. F. Bagnall, A.L.S., 
two mosses, Arnblystegium serpens and Bryum ccespiticium, curious from 
growing at a rolling mill, Buckingham Street, amid the splash of a mixture 
of vitriol, oil, and water ; also a number of mosses from Cumberland 
and some flowering plants from the Anker district. Mr. J. Levick, 
Zoothamnium arbuscula ; Lacunularia socialis; Cristatella mucedo; from 
Alvechurch. Mr. Browett, large female adder, Pelias Berus , measuring 
fully two feet long, together with eight young adders, measuring six 
inches long, taken from the inside of the mother after being killed, in 
the usual membrane, forming a complete egg. —General Meeting, 
August 18th.—Mr. T. Bolton exhibited Verbascum Lychnitis, the white 
mullein (rare), from Whittington, Kinver, and Sabella penicillus , a 
marine tube-dwelling worm, from Sheerness. Mr. J. F. Greenway 
exhibited Lacinularia socialis and Stephanoceros Eichhornii , from near 
Alvechurch. Three new members were elected.— Geological Section, 
August 25th.—Mr. Pumphrey exhibited a Potentilla, in which, instead 
of a solitary flower, two grew back to back with complete calyx and 
corolla. Mr. Bolton on behalf of Mr. Morley, from Llandudno, a 
dog-fish egg, Botryllus, and young crabs. Mr. W. B. Grove, Lentinus 
lepideus, an agaric which usually grows upon imported fir timber, but 
is found annually at Selly Oak, on the beams of the roof of a half 
buried cellar. Mr. Udall, several corals from neighbourhood of 
Bristol; specimen of coal from Swansea ; specimen of granite from 
Sliap. 
BIRMINGHAM MICROSCOPISTS’ AND NATURALISTS’ 
UNION.—July 20tli. Mr. Hawkes showed specimens of meadow 
sweet attacked with Uromyces ulmarice and Triphragmiurn ulmaricc. Mr. 
