OBITUARY. 117 



If all the work of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is as 

 satisfactorily tabulated as Mr. Porritt's portion, recently issued, it 

 can no longer be said that local societies produce no results. 



Transactions of the Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. Part 1. 

 This little pamphlet contains the Annual Keport for 1883, 

 and a Catalogue of the Lepidoptera of the Huddersfield District ; 

 the Macro-lepidoptera by Mr. S. L. Mosley, and the Micro- 

 lepidoptera by Mr. Porritt. All this is of course incorporated 

 in the York County List above referred to, so needs no further 

 notice. By the Report we find there are 109 members; 

 but, if we are to judge by the library-circulation, not half are too 

 actively engaged in any branch of Natural History ; for there ap- 

 pear to have been but 31 readers, who had out 190 volumes. 

 The botanists appear to have been the most active section, but 

 are closely followed by the entomologists as exhibitors at the 



meetings. 



Seventh Annual Report of the Lancashire and Cheshire 



Entomological Society. 

 This is the Keport for the past year, — 1883, — and contains 

 also the President's Address to the Society. In the latter it is 

 suggested that the Club should follow the example of the York- 

 shire Union of Societies, and publish a similar list of the 

 Lepidoptera of the Liverpool district. As the Society bears the 

 name of two counties, it seems to us most desirable that the work 

 should be extended to Lancashire and Cheshire. If some com- 

 petent person could be found to edit such a compilation, it would 

 be most useful to present and future lepidopterists. Assistance 

 would be most willingly given by those who at present collect in 

 those counties, as well as by many who have in past times 

 explored their insect fauna. Cannot the President undertake the 

 work, if it has not already been commenced ? 



J. T. C. 



OBITUAKY. 



Sir Sidney Smith Saunders, Knt., C.M.G., died at his resi- 

 dence, Gatestone, Central Hill, Upper Norwood, S.E., on the 15th 

 April, aged seventy-four. It is with great regret we make this 

 announcement; only at the April meeting of the Entomological 



