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respective estates, to the guides, Messrs. W. Greaves, S. C. 
Moore, S. Fielding, A. Newell, and J. H. Greenwood, to the 
Governors and Principal of the Secondary School, to the 
Hebden Bridge Literary and Scientific Society, and to Mr. 
Edward B. Gibson for making the local arrangements, was 
unanimously adopted on the motion of Dr. Woodhead, seconded 
by: Mr: WW. EL, Burnell: 
The collections of the late Mr. James Needham were placed 
on exhibition by the local society.—W. E. L. W. 
The following sectional reports are to hand :— 
VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.—Mr. Walter Greaves, writes :— 
The necessary impetus for a strict investigation was lacking, 
because to all the vertebrate zoologists taking part the fauna 
was intimately known. Only a small number of birds, and 
one mammal were noticed. In Middle Dene wood a too 
precocious Sparrow Hawk, with down still on its head, was 
caught, and the other most noteworthy find was a Redpoll’s nest, 
still with eggs, ina bush not more than four feet off the ground. 
The less common of other birds seen or heard were Redstart, 
Spotted Flycatcher, Grey Wagtail, Dipper and Sandpiper. 
CoNCHOLOGY.—The Conchological Section was represented 
by Mr. Greevz Fysher, who found in Peckett Wood Avion ater 
type, adult, and vars. nigrescens and luteopallescens juv.; A. 
subfuscus var. rufofusca, Agriolimax agrestis var. reticulata, 
Hyalinia alliaria, Pyramidula rotundata, Helix hortensis var. 
lutea 12345, Cochlicopa lubrica, Limnea peregra, L. truncatula, 
and an undetermined Pisidium. 
BryoLocy.—Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., reports :—The 
moss flora is typical of a gritstone clough. Tetraphis pellucida, 
Ceratodon purpureus, Dicranella heteromalla, Campylopus 
flexuosus, Webera nutans, Mnium hornum, Plagiothecium 
elegans, are the conspicuous species on peat and rock of the 
drier slopes ; wet rocks in the rivulets are clothed with Mnium 
punctatum, Eurhynchium rusciforme, Conocephalum conicum, 
Pellia epiphylla, Chiloscyphus polyanthus and Scapania un- 
dulata; swampy areas near the river have a marsh flora 
indicated by Sphagnum sp., Fissidens adiantoides, Hypnum 
cuspidatum, Hypnum stramineum, etc. Recent heavy rains 
had left the rupestral mosses in beautiful condition ; special 
- note was made of great sheets of Barbula cylindrica limng the 
roadside walls, showing colour and texture to perfection. 
Some interesting Dicranoids were gathered in Midgehole 
Wood. Opinion differed as to whether they were forms of 
Campylopus flexuosus or of a Dicranum. A study of the leaf 
sections showed that all had the nerve characters of Campy- 
lopus. Some tufts were almost devoid of tomentum, and 
consisted largely of the well-known deciduous flagelliform 
1915 Sept. 1. 
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