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CiRC, No. 125. 



CONVEYANCES will .start from the Ship Hotel Yard, Rotherham, at 10-15 

 a.Di., reaching Maltl>y Woods about 11-30 a.m. Return fare 2'-. 



if^ It is earnestly requested that the members visiting the woods confine them- 

 selves to the rides, which are numerous and ample. 



GEOLOGY. - 



The late Mr. IT. D'Oyley Foote wrote on the occasion of the Union's last visit 

 that immediately above the Abbey is a quarry in tiie lower magaesian limestone, 

 iTiany old workings in which afford good sections. The stone has a very fine white 

 rmd crystalline appearance, and is rather soft in the lower beds. A fresh fracture of 

 it has a particular sparkling lustre like lump sugar, but soon loses this on exposure. 

 Along the brook from .Maltby to Roche Abbey good sections are to be seen, and at 

 Hooton Levitt Mill it cuts right through to the underlying coal measures. In the lower 

 magnesian limestone of this district, fossils are exceedingly scarce, and it is only in 

 some few localities that they occur. At Toe Lane, Laughton, Brookhouscand Carr 

 Quarries have been found Tcrehratnia clongnfa, Produftus horridus^ Alonotis sf-eluit- 

 caria, Bakerellia {eratopJiaga^ Pleitrotomaria antriim, Turbo^ and a fe\\' others. 



BOTANY.— 



Flowering; Plants.^Mr. II. Moore writes that the following plants are to be 

 seen in bloom in July, about Maltby Common and Woods, Roche Abbey and 

 I'^irbeck : — Clematis vihilba, CheJidoJiiuiii nny'ns, Ccrastiuiii arz'ense, Arenaria 

 irincyva^ Alsiiie. toniifolia^ Hj'periaiin. nioiitamun. Ononis spinosa^ Eitonynnis 

 eitropcnis, Aiithyllis vidneraria^ Astro oaiits ^ii^iycyphyllos, Onobrychis saliva^ 

 Potcriuin saiiguisorha^ Kudus f?iacrophy/liis, I\\ /eiicosiachys, J\. C(Tsius, Jxibes alpi- 

 'iiian, Hippuris vulgaris, MyriophylluNi spicaiiun, KpilobiuDi ajigtistijoliuiii^ 

 CaUitriche vcr/ialis, C'urau lutetiana, Scdiuji i-eplcMnn, Bupkitrnm lotundijoliuni^, 

 Pifnpinclla maoyia, /\'//crda;!//m satiz'uw, Galiuiu triiOiiic, Aspenda cynaiit/iira, 

 Si'nbiosn loln/iibaria^ Eut>atoriuiii canuabiiudii, Tiuihi conyza^ Giiaphallnni dioicuin, 

 Venecia eriK if oliits , Cardials eriophorus, Picris I/ierac/oides, Latuca innralis, Pyrola 

 Juinor, Coitunculiis niiniinus, Ligustrum viiigare, Chlora perfoliata^ Lithospeniiiiiii 

 officinale, luJiiHin viilgarc, Vcrbascuni ihafsus, Linaida clatine, Veronica iiiontana, 

 Antirrhimufi oroiitiii//i, Moitha sativa, Origanuin viilgare, Thymus cJiauKcdrys. 

 Cala/nintha cVuiopodiii})!, ITudiuIus lupnlus^ Ncottia nidiis-avis, OpJirys apijcra^ 

 O. niii-^cifcra, Ilaboiaria chioraiitlia, Gy)ii}iadc}iia coiiopsca. 



Mosses and Hepatics. — The following are recorded from Roche Abbey in 

 I-ees' West Riding Flora: JZncladiuni verticillatum, DitjicJiuni JlexicaiiJe, Barbida 

 ^'igidula, B. co)i7'olida, B. toriuosa, B. intcnncdia, Uloia iidermcdia, Orthotricuui . 

 ^^ffiuc', Bryiini pscudo triq-itetruvi, Jl/nium stellare, Phynchostegiiiin. teiielhi/n, 

 ddypinini chrysopJiylliini, Fridlania dilatata, Lejeunea serpyllifoiia, Porclla platy- 

 t-Iiylla^ jKngermania bici-enata. 



Lichens. ^No records. 



Fungi. — There are no records, and Mr. Charles Crossland will be glad to 

 s"eceive specimens for identification. 



Algas, — No records. 



Microscopic Life.--- Mr. H. ?^Ioore writes that the following have been taken 

 fi"om Laughton Pond, Roche Abbey, during this year, viz. \-~Melicerta ringcns, 

 ^'^teplianonceros dehorn ii, Oscis/cs crystaUiniis, FloscuJaria ornafa, CotJiiu nia i/iiber- 

 <^is, Stcntorpolyinorphos^ Ophrydinni sessile, Arcella aadeata, DiJJlugia proteifonnis. 

 Lor information respecting the Diatomacese of Roche Abbey reference may be 

 i^iade to Dr. Lees' ' Flora of West Yorkshire.' 



VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY.— The Vertebrate section will be repre- 

 sented by one of its Secretaries, Mr. Thomas Bunker, and by the President of the 

 Union, Mr. John Cordeaux, M.B.O.U. 



Mr. F. W. Dickinson writes the following :— 



Mammals.— The Fox is common in the woods, l)eing preserved ; the Water 

 "^'ole is plentiful ; the Squirrel, Dormouse, Stoat and Weasel are found in the 

 ^'oods. The (Greater Horseshoe Bat has occasionally been found in great numbers. 



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