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REVIEWS. 
The Transactions of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. Parts 1—3. 
London: W. Satchell & Co. 1878—80. 
Tue first work of a local Natural-History Society is to 
mutually educate its members sufliciently to make them all able 
to take a part in working out the flora and fauna of the district 
or region encompassed by its workings. Lectures, papers read, 
scientific debates, conversazioni, field meetings, and individual 
collecting, are all means to anen’. ‘This end is the publication 
of a local flora and fauna, and the aim is of course to make it as 
exhaustive as possible. The Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union has 
arrived at this point, and commenced the publication of its local 
catalogues of animals and plants in 1878. The three parts 
now published contain much valuable information in all the series 
treated of ; why the part (3) issued to subscribers for 1878 has 
only just appeared does not rest with us to enquire. The Union 
consists of nearly thirty societies, and its publications are 
arranged in six series, viz.:—general, vertebrate zoology, 
conchology, entomology, botany, and geology. The first and last 
have not yet made a sign, but all the others record good work ; it 
is however with section D—Articulata—only that we are con- 
cerned. ‘The Lepidoptera are under the care of Messrs. Porritt 
(Macro) and Prest (Micro); very able reports have resulted. 
However, amongst the Macro-Lepidoptera only one additional 
species to the county is recorded ; this was Carsia imbutata, taken 
by Mr. Smethurst on Goole Moor in 1877 ; the last two years have 
produced nothing new. This list of Yorkshire species has not 
yet appeared, so we have no opportunity of judging how complete 
it may be considered. This part of the report still contains much 
interesting matter in its minor details, as might reasonably be 
expected from so large a body of workers. Mr. Mosley contributes 
a short report on Yorkshire Psyllid@ ; also a very meagre list of 
Diptera. Certainly the best report in the section is that of Mr. 
Roebuck, who, later, had the co-operation of Mr. Bairstow, on York- 
shire Hymenoptera; the forty-eight pages occupied, not only 
include a very creditable list of species, but some most valuable 
remarks on the generalities of each family. ‘The reports of the 
entomological section altogether run to eighty pages. ‘These 
