48 PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 



invariably remarked that bees thrive better in low hives than in high ones ; that in gcn(;ral those 

 which are broad and flat amass more honey, thrive better, and give out stronger and earlier 

 swjirms than those which are high. A hive thrives only in proportion to the success or per- 

 fection of its brood-comb in the spring. It is therefore of gi-eat importance to keep up the 

 necessary degree of heat for the hatching of the brood. If at that time the bees are lodged 

 in high and roomy hives, they will crowd together in vain, and the heat ascending is lost in 

 the empty space above. This never happens in low flat hives, where it is more easily 

 concentrated." 



The fact of Mr, Taylor's book having arrived at its fourth edition, is, we 

 think, a pretty good proof of the practical and useful nature of its contents. 



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Yorkshire Naturalists' Club, March oth., 1851. — Tlae President, Pkofessou Phillips, in 

 the chair. 



The following new members were elected: — "W. Richardson, Esq., Stockton-on-Tees; W. 

 Richardson, Esq., jun., York; John Harris, Esq., York; J. B. Pritchett, Esq., York; Mr. R. 

 Sunter, York; Mr. M. Slater, Malton; Mr. J. Conroy, York. 



A communication from D. Ferguson, Esq., of Redcar, relative to the intention of the Club 

 to carry on some dredging operations ofi" that coast, having been read, it was proposed by Dr. 

 Morris, and seconded by E. Smallwood, Esq., "That arrangements be made, as soon as prac- 

 ticable, for carrying out the proposed dredging operations at Redcar ; the dredging to take place 

 in September." Carried unanimously. 



Some interesting fossils and recent objects from Redcar, were forwarded for exhibition, by 

 D. Ferguson, Esq. They included an example of an extremely rare British shell, (M'usus 

 Norvegicus,) taken from a depth of sixty fathoms. A fine specimen of the great spiuey crab 

 (Cancer Horridus,) taken at Redcar lately, and wliich was remarkable as being greatly infested 

 by large specimens of the Balanus Scoticus. Also specunens of the cuxular crab (Atelecyclus 

 Jieterodon,) and the masked crab (Corystes Cassivelaunus.) 



Mr. CiiARLESWORTii exhibited some very choice mountain limestone fossils, from the neigh- 

 bourhood of Settle ; also a large number of fossil sharks' teeth, with fossil car bones of whales, 

 from tlie crag of SuifFolk, forming part of the collections wliich are being made by the British 

 Natural History Society, for distribution among its members. 



Mr. Baines brought before the Club seventy-nine new species of mosses, which had been 

 discovered by himself and other botanists since the appearance of liis "Flora of Yorksliire," in 

 1840. He stated that out of three hundred and sixty-eight species foimd in England, two 

 hundred and ninety-one had been noticed in Yorkshire. These seventy-nine new mosses would 

 form part of an appendix to the "Flora of Yorkshire," which he was about to publish. — Several 

 members expressed a hope that he would open subscription lists for the announced work. All 

 the new species of mosses were exhibited to the Club, mounted in a new and very convenient 

 manner; several allied species being placed on cardboard, and covered with a plate of glass, 

 which enabled them to be handed round and examined by the members. 



Mr. "W. Axdersox laid on the table a fine specimen of a large fungus, allied to Lycoperdon, 

 which he had procured lately near Fulford. 



Mr. Smallavood exhibited a very fine specimen of the fossil plant called Stiginaria, procured 

 from near Knaresborough. — The President remarked that it presented some peculiarities in the 

 cicatrices, being at one end much approximated, while at the other they were separated con- 

 siderably. 



Mr. Graham exhibited a curiously marked specimen of the Shovclcr (Anas clypcata,) obtained 

 lately near Goole. He also shewed a stuffed specimen of the Ennine, in its winter dress, taken 

 at Moreby. — Several zoophytes, which had been dredged off the Dogger Bank, off" Scarborough, 

 were also exhibited by him; among them, a number of very large specimens of Antoinularia 

 antennina. 



