280 SCHOOL NATURAL HISTORY AT YORK. 
Lists of the less common insects obtained by the entomologists 
are given each year. Among these Af¢tagenus fellio, met with at the 
Marygate Baths, is cited asa first record for York ; Mezium sulcatum 
is also named, from the school itself and another locality in the city. 
There are reports for Conchology, General Zoology, and Micros- 
copy. A Vivarium is maintained in the Natural History room. 
Meteorology is well represented ; the success of this department is 
evidently owing in great part to the care and enthusiasm of Mr. J. E. 
Clark, B.A. The remarkable wénd-rush of March 8th, 1890, which 
passed through Bishopthorpe, Fulford, and Heslington, doing 
immense damage, has special mention. February 1891, is reported 
as, at York, an absolutely rainless month. 
Passing some sections by, we must notice that devoted to Botany 
as having engaged a goodly number of workers, with excellent 
results. During the year 1890 alone, one pupil collected exactly 600 
British species of plants; another in 1891 collected 400 species. 
The following notable botanical ‘finds,’ both made by Mr. B. B. 
LeTall, M.A., one of the masters of the school, marked the year 
1890; Lycopodium annotinum 1.., ‘within ten miles of York’ (the 
locality is not precisely given, but we know it to be in the East 
Riding)—an entirely new record for the whole county, and one 
extending the southern British limit of this Club-moss; and Hyfocheris 
glabra 1., near Allerthorpe Common, not only a first record for the 
East Riding, but also (see ‘North Yorkshire’ and ‘Flora of West 
Yorkshire’) the first unquestionable record for Yorkshire itself. 
Other good finds were Caucalis daucoides L., near Acomb, Serratula 
tinctoria \., in Skelton ood, Oa ern and Beech Fern at 
Buttercrambe Moor Wood, and Viola hirta L., in the unlikely home 
of a wood near Tilmire. Asperula odorata L., is named as ‘still 
growing at Hob Moor’; the locality is not mentioned in ‘ Flora of | 
West Yorkshire,’ nor any other nearer than Thorp Arch. Wood 
Anemones with dlue sepals, reported from Copmanthorpe in 1881, 
were again found there in 1891 
Much attention is paid to Phenology, especially in connection 
with wild and garden flowers, and for each year a good series of dates 
is given. Caltha palustris L., flowered on Tilmire from Oct. rith 
to Dec. 13th, in 1890. Ranunculus sceleratus L. (imperfect), was in 
bloom at Hob Moor on Feb. roth, 1891. It is stated that comparing 
1891 with the previous fourteen years, spring flowers were on an 
average a fortnight behind their usual time—with three exceptions- 
We have read these reports with pleasure, and heartily congratu- 
late masters and scholars on so well maintaining and extending the 
honourable traditions of the School. We bak 
Naturalist, 
