president's address. 3 



some consolation, if not a set-off; but it is pretty well under- 

 stood that it has not been so, and, therefore, the Naturalist has 

 been deprived of a great source of information and delight, while 

 no one has been benefitted. The party mourned over the de- 

 parted glories of the Car. The effect upon the Ornithology of 

 the locality was very perceptible at this meeting, in the diminished 

 number of birds observed; two pairs of Dunlins, three Red- 

 shanks, a Snipe or two, a pair of Curlews, and a few Pewits, 

 were all the birds noticed. Mr. John Hancock was so fortunate, 

 nevertheless, as to find two nests with fresh eggs of the Dunlin 

 and Redshank, observing that " probably these will be the last 

 of the Dunlins and Redshanks breeding on Prestwick Car." I 

 have since been informed by Mr. Hancock that they really were not 

 the last, for he took another Dunlin's nest on the 27th of May. 



Hydra vulgaris was collected by Mr. George Hodge, and on 

 the party assembling at Dinnington to take tea, a paper by Mr. 

 Bold, on *■' Insects New to our Fauna," and the Introductory 

 matter prefixed to Mr. Wailes' '• Catalogue of our Lepidopteraj'' 

 were read, both of which have since been printed. 



Mr. T. J. Bold has prepared a catalogue of the Entomology of 

 the Car. Its Ornithology has been entrusted to Mr. John Han- 

 cock, and it would be very desirable that others of the members 

 should contribute notices of the plants and interesting objects, 

 in other branches of Natural History, which have hitherto been 

 such an attraction to Naturalists in that locality, and which no 

 longer exist there. 



The Second Field Meeting was held at Heselden Dene on 

 the 9th June. I was not able to be present, and am indebted 

 chiefly to the notes of Dr. Embleton for the following details of 

 the meetiag. The party was met at the Castle Eden Colliery 

 Station by Mr. Burdon and friends, by whom they were kindly 

 conducted down the deep windings of the well-wooded and 

 picturesque Hazle-dene, in which were speedily found the 

 Primula farinosa, Pinguicula vulgaris^ Asplenium ruta-mui^aria, 

 Aquikgia vulgaris^ and other plants, if not rare, at least not com- 

 monly met with, and interesting to the Botanist. 



