108  Hawell: Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union at Staithes. 
Mr. M. B. Slater proposed a vote of condolence with the 
widow of the late Mr. Thomas Hick, an old and valued_ 
member, which was seconded by Mr. Roebuck and _ passed. 
The sectional reports were then given. 
Mr. Kenneth McLean reported for the Vertebrate Section 
that a large number of birds had been noted as observed. We 
omit the report, as Mr. McLean has drawn up a full account 
of the birds of the Staithes and Loftus district, which will 
be printed in this journal before very lon 
Mro- Te A. Lotthouse,6F Midillesbrouph, stated that the 
weather had been too dry for great success in shell-hunting, 
and that very few species had been obtained. 
Reporting for the Entomologists, Mr. William Hewett, of 
York, Secretary of the Section, stated that the weather had 
been most unfavourably dull, and that consequently very 
indifferent success had fallen to the lot of his section. 
The Botanists, for whom Mr. T. F. Ward, of Middlesbrough, 
reported, had been fairly successful; 129 plants were observed 
by himself and Mr. W. H. Thats, of which the following are 
the most noteworthy :— 
Cerastium glomeratum, Arctium maju 
Hypericum montanum. Helminthia nohialdes: 
Vicia sylvati Melampyrum pratense 
Pastinaca sativa Origanum vulgare 
Conium maculatum Calamintha officinalis 
Eupatorium cannabinum. Plantago coronopus 
Pulicaria dysenterica. Plantago maritima. 
Anthemis cotula. Epipactis latifolia. 
Senecio viscosus. Carex pendula 
Senecio erucifolius. 
Mr. M. B, Slater, F.L.S., of Malton, reported that a few 
excellent finds had been made in mosses and hepatics. Amongst 
those gathered on the Saturday by Mr. Barnes the most notice- _ 
able were :— 
Gymnostomum ten Orthotrichum stramineum. 
Dicranella schrcbel: var. lata. Orthotrichum leiocarpum. 
Seligeria recurvata. Tetrodontium brownianum. 
Campylostelium saxicola, Fissidens fontanus. 
Brachyodus des. Fissidens pusillus. 
Didymodon cylindricus. Eurhynchium teesdalii 
Trichostomum os -  Rhynchostegium depressum. 
Barbula spa adic Plagiothecium latebricola, in 
Ulsta crispa. fruit. 
Ulsta crispulum, - Amblystegium irrigttum 
The report on Fungi was given by Mr. Charles Groselanl 
of ‘Halifax, petit cates to the Botanical, See 
“Naturalist, 
