256 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT PENISTONE. 
Although the attendance was so small, individual members had 
journeyed from diverse localities and represented the following com- 
paratively large number of affiliated societies :—Barnsley, Wakefield, 
Bradford, Leeds, Leeds Co-operative, Huddersfield, and Ravens- 
thorpe Naturalists’ Societies, Goole, Bradford, Hull, and 
Halifax Scientific — Leeds Geological Association, and the 
sg aa Soc 
Messrs. W. a ee M.A., F.G.S., Leeds, and Jno. Gerrard, 
Rccketee moved the usual vote of Paani to the various land- 
owners for having granted permission for their estates to be explored, 
to the leaders of parties, and to the contributors to the excursion- 
programme. 
The reports of the sections were next received. 
In the absence of all the officers of the Vertebrate Section, the 
Chairman remarked that the only members attending the excursion 
besides himself were Messrs. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., Leeds, and 
John Gerrard, Manchester. 
Something more than the bad weather would be required to 
account for the remarkable scarcity of bird-life, and one could only 
come to the conclusion that the district is a very barren one. 
Mammals were seen, and the malonate is a complete list of the birds 
observed :— 
Missel Thrush. renga fac Yellow Bunting. 
Blackbird. Swallo Starling. 
Ring Ouzel. rg Kestrel. 
Willow Warbler. Sparrow. +tRed Grouse. 
ren. Chaffinch. +Sandpiper. 
Pied Wagtail. 
The dagger (+) denotes young birds seen. 
Mr. F. W. Fierke (Hull), one of the hon. secretaries of the 
Conchological Section, writes that Mr. Lionel E. Adams, B.A. 
(Penistone), and himself, were at Penistone Station on the arrival of 
e main party, about 10.30 a.m., but no other conchologist being 
among the number, they teoneeded by themselves to Scout Dam, 
which was the route set forth in the circular. As was stated by 
Mir, Adams, a more barren district could hardly have been selected 
for conchological investigation. vaguelaa grit, bing often giving 
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as conchology in a district of this description. The only terrestrial 
mollusca observed on the route were Arion ater, A. circumscriptus, 
imax agrestis, Vitrina pellucida, Hyalinia alliaria and 
rotundata, Still, despite the scarcity of molluscs in general, one of 
two species occur in Scout Dam which could not help but interest 
Naturalist, 
