256 THE NORTHERN MICROSCOPIST. 

British bees, which hitherto has only been taken singly in the New 
Forest. At Weybridge a male was caught on July 4th, 1842. Mr. 
Bridgman has taken them at Norwich a few years ago. 
I found them flying very swiftly along the banks of the Basing- 
stoke Canal, and frequenting the flowers of the great yellow loose- 
strife, Lysimachia vulgaris. FRED. ENOCK. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL History AND MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY. 
—In the Report and Transactions of this Society for 1881, just 
published, we have the President’s address, the annual reports of 
the Secretaries, Curator, Librarian, and Treasurer, with a great 
deal of interesting matter in the shape of papers read before the 
Society, and occupying the last 38 pages of the book. Though 
well pleased on the whole with the production, we feel bound to 
call attention to a few points where a little more care might have 
been shewn with advantage. When the Rev. M. J. Berkeley is 
elected a corresponding member of the Society as a tribute to 
his high scientific attainments, why should he be refused that title 
which of all others a scientific man is proud of having gained ? 
Do not the Editors know that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, M.A.,F.LS., 
is also a Fellow of the Royal Society? We would suggest that 
they re-read their list of members. 
Among the list of donations the treatment accorded to the 
Northern Microscopist \ast year has been repeated, and it is again 
conspicuous by its absence. As we have sent a copy of the Journal 
from its commencement to “The Library” of the Society, surely 
an acknowledgment might have been expected. 
We are sorry to hear from the Committee’s report that there is 
a considerable falling off in the circulation of the “‘ Midland Natur- 
alist,” and this principally in Birmingham and the district. We 
also read, “The Committee acknowledge gratefully the valuable 
services given to the ‘Midland Naturalist’ by the Editors, and 
will gravely consider during the year the best means of setting the 
publication on a firm and successful basis.” As the falling off re- 
ferred to above is chiefly in the Midlands, the reason must be 
either that such a journal is not required, or else that it does not 
meet the wants of the district. In either case, it behoves the So- 
ciety to act with discrimination, as subsidising a journal that is not 
required means an absolute loss of capital which a reference to the 
treasurer’s report shews would be very unwise. 
STUDIES IN MicroscoprcaL SciENcE.—Nos. 11, 12, 13, 14, and 
15 of this paper have come to hand since our last notice. In the 
first is illustrated a single lobule of the liver of a cat, the hepatic 
vein having been injected red and the portal vein blue. The methods 



