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A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
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LONDON: Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
Vol. II., No. 23. MAY 1894. Price 2d. 
THE RECOGNISED MEDIUM OF 
THE PRACTICAL NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, 
LAMBETH FIELD CLUB AN D SCI ENTI FIC SOCIETY, 
NORTH KENT ENTOMOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY SOCiETY, ETC. 
Edited by A. FORD and A. H. WATERS, 3.A. 
With the assistance of H. K. Swann and H. Durr ant. 
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Varieties of British Lepidoi-*- 
TERA. 157 
Value of Rare British Butter¬ 
flies.158 
Coleoptera at Camber.159 
Hints for the Month : Lepi- 
doptera ; Coleoptera ; Botany .. 160 
The Birds of Manchester .... 162 
Occurrence of X. Aurago. . .. 163 
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) Field Clubs and Societies. .. .167 
\ Rural Notes and Observations 173 
J Records and Observations : 
Reptilia ; Insects; Mammals; 
Birds; Botany... 173 
Editorial Notes.175 
To Correspondents.. 176 
T. L. CUMMINS, 
Naturalist, 
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