THE 
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Jlmmtal, 
A Monthly Medium for Collectors and Students of Natural History. 
LONDON : Elliot Stock, 62, Paternoster Row, E.C. 
VOL. II., No. 24. 
JUNE 1894. 
Price 2d. 
THE RECOGNISED MEDIUM OF 
THE PRACTICAL NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY, 
LAMBETH FIELD CLUB AN D SCIENTIFIC 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. 
OOHTTBKrTS 
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Notes on the Variation and 
Distribution of British Slugsi 77 
Birds of Cambridgeshire .... 180 
Three Miles in the Air. 181 
In Memoriam—Ernest Atkins 183 
Birds of Manchester. 183 
Field Clubs and Societies. .. .184 
Records and Observations : 
Mammals; Birds ; Fish ; Insects; 
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Zoophaytes; Plants; Oology ..186 
Rural Notes and Observations^ 
Hints for the Month : Lepi- 
doptera; Coleoptera; Ornithology 191 
Notices of Books. 192 
Editorial Notes.193 
To Correspondents.194 
Index and Title to Vol, II. 
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