FORTY-THIRD ANNUAL REPORT, FOR I904. I3 



Secretaries — W. Hewett, York ; A, Whitaker, Barnsley. 

 Representative on Executive — W. Hewett. 

 Representatives on Committee of Suggestions — G. T. Porritt 

 and W. Hewett. 



ConcholOg'ical Section. — Mr. J. E. Crowther reports : 

 With the exception of the Dent Excursion, all the fixed meetings 

 have been officially represented, and where favourable conditions 

 existed good work has been done. The meeting at Scarborough 

 for Harwood Dale was well attended, and was fairly successful, 

 37 species being noted, only 3 of these being aquatics. Some 

 notable omissions were Helix virgata and H. pnlchella, both of 

 which ought to occur, and H. lamellata, for which special, but 

 unsuccessful, search was made on the clumps of Lnznla, which 

 seems to be their favourite habitat in the Scarborough district. 

 Perhaps the dry weather prevailing at the time had something to 

 do with their absence. In connection with this, the Rev. W. C. 

 Hey (" Naturalist," July, page 207) writes that on the 13th June 

 he took several live examples of this species in that district, not 

 on Luzula, but in the habitat usually given for this species — 

 dead holly leaves. Another notable feature was the extreme 

 abundance of Velletia lacmtris in a pond near the Mill Inn. 

 The Hebden Bridge meeting was also fairly successful, 11 

 species new to the district were found, one of which, Arion minimus, 

 though tolerably common, had not, owing to want of identifica- 

 tion, been before recorded for the Halifax parish. 



Owing to the very dry weather, and the short time at the 

 disposal of the members, the excursion to Spurn and Kilnsea 

 was not a very successful one, conchologically ; the most 

 interesting items being the finding of Helix liortiusis, a 

 new record for Kilnsea, and the extreme abundance of H. 

 nemomlis and H. aspersa, after a thunderstorm, where previously 

 not a single specimen was to be seen. 



The results of the very successful meeting at Buckden, with 

 material contributed by the I^ev. Trevor Basil Woodd, B.A., 

 have been published in the form of " A List of the Mollusca of 

 Langstrothdale " (" Naturalist," October, page 293), by Mr. W. 

 Denison Roebuck, F.L.S. At Dent no systematic search for 

 mollusca was attempted, but Mr. J. A. Hargreaves reported 

 noting 21 species, all of which, with the addition of 16 more, 

 were found on the occasion of the Union's last visit to that place 

 on May 20th to 22nd, 1899. 



On the 12th of June, Mr. Thos. Castle, of Heck-mondwike, 

 found Palniestriua jenkiusi very plentiful in the river Spen at 

 Hunsworth Wood, near Cleckheaton. 



During the year Mr. J. W. Taylor has issued Part X. of his 



