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A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
LONDON: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
Vol. II., No. 22. APRIL 1894. Price 2d. 
THE RECOGNISED MEDIUM OF 
THE PRACTICAL NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, 
LAMBETH FIELD CLUB AN D SCI E N Tl FIC SOCIETY, 
NORTH KENT ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY, ETC. 
Edited by A. FORD and A. H. WATERS, B.A. 
With the assistance of H. K. Swann and H. Durrant. 
PAGE 
Grease.141 
A Butterfly’s Wings. 144 
The Birds of Cambridgeshire^; 
Hints for the Month : Lepi- 
doptera ; Larvae ; Coleoptera ; 
Conchology; Botany. 149 
PAGE 
Editorial Notes.150 
Rural Notes and Observations! 51 
Records and Observations : 
Mammals; Birds; Insects; Mol¬ 
luscs ; Plants ; Fishes ........ 152 
Field Clubs and Societies. .. .155 
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Co. Durham. v 
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