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route tQ Hitterdal aud Christiania. He theu gave au account of the more 

 interestiug plants gathered during the tour aud their localities. Many of 

 these ])laats, although common in Norway, are rare, and in several cases 

 unknown, in Britain. A number of lantern slides from photographs taken 

 by the author were exhibited. 



MARISE DREDGING EXCURSION TO riLEY. 



On Saturday, September 14th, 1889, a marine excursion took place. 

 Filey was the place selected. ^Nlr. Burton, of the Cleveland Society, and 

 Mr. Percy Davis, of Halifax, the Secretary of the Marine Zoology 

 Committee of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, joined the party en roxite. 

 Arriving at Filey at 11.45, the contingent proceeded to the Crown Hotel for 

 refreshments, aud then divided into two parties. One, under the guidance of 

 Mr. Davis, to investigate the rockpools on the Brigg,and the other embarked 

 in a fishing boat for the purjjose of dredging the bay and taking surface and 

 free swimming organisms in the tow-net. The weather was cloudy aud 

 slightly breezy, circumstances which accounted not ouly for the meagre 

 results of the tow-net, but also for a somewhat hurried adjournment on the 

 jiart of two members to the firmer footing of the Brigg. Five hauls were 

 made with the dreiige, kindly lent to the Club by the Cleveland Society. 

 The contents were at once emptied into a bucket aud the sorting of its very 

 miscellaneous captures was assisted by the vigorous use of the familiar 

 wire coffee strainer, in the hands of one of the secretaries. The vagaries 

 of this individual were variously commented on, but eventually the 

 objects collected were placed in lai"ge bottles, with suitable preservatives, 

 for examination ou Monday evening. After about four hours' work the 

 dredging party landed and noticed stranded on the shore a shark, of which 

 Mr. Edgar E. Waite made a hurried sketch, and noted its distinguishing 

 characteristics. The two sections re-uuited and adjourned to the railway 

 station, whence, at 6.12 p.m., they departed for Scarborough. 



Meetiug held in the Municii^al Buildings, September IGtli, 1889. 

 Edgar E. Waite in the chair. 



EXCL HSIOX To FILEY, 



Mr. Waite presented a rejjort ou the birds and fishes observed during 

 the excursion to Filey. Few birds were seen, aud those which were 

 observed appeared to be very shy. They included an immature Lesser 

 Black-backed Uull, and also a few Kittiwake.s, but the great majority were 

 the Common and Black-headed Gulls. Several Herring (4ulls were seen 

 all in immature jiUnuage. Of the Alcid(c a single Guillemot was the only 

 re|)re.sentative. Three Ducks {FiiUyniiiue) but too di.stant to be specifically 

 named. Of the fishes the Shark was determined as the common Tope 

 {Gidcns canis). This shark is common on our southern coasts, an<I has 

 been observed as far north as Berwick. It has been taken at Scarborough 



