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autumnalis, Polygonum amphzbium, Lotus major, and Lonicera 

 caprifolium. None of these are of particular scarcity. A few 

 birds of interest were noticed; amongst these the Wheatear 

 (Saxicola csnanthe), the Heron (Ardea cinerea), and on the lake 

 at Bolam the Bald Coot (Fulica atra). 



Thirty -five in all sat down to dinner, which was provided 

 at the hotel at Gallowshill ; afterwards five new members were 

 elected. Mr. Thompson exhibited four eggs of the Tree Pipit 

 (Anthus arboreus), and an egg of the Cuckoo (Cuculus caronus), 

 taken at Winlatom Gallowshill is but a short walk from the 

 Meldon Station, where the party again took train for Newcastle. 



It is to be regretted that the arrangements of the railway 

 companies do not permit a longer day for country excursions in 

 districts lying as near home as the one visited. With more time 

 the circuit might have been considerably extended without en- 

 tailing unusual fatigue. 



The Fieth Field Meeting was held at Helmsley and Gilling 

 on the 12th and 13th September. The early rule of the Club, 

 under which Field Meetings were confined to the counties of 

 Northumberland and Durham, has been somewhat relaxed of 

 recent years, and it is now usual to extend one of the summer 

 excursions beyond our own borders, granting some corresponding 

 indulgence as to time\ It is not that localities nearer home haye 

 ceased to delight and instruct, or that it is for a moment supposed 

 that the Natural History of the two counties has been exhausted 

 by our pilgrimages, but, following mother nature in her objec- 

 tion to hard lines of demarcation, we are tempted now and then 

 to wander just a little further afield as access to fresh localities 

 becomes easy by the opening out of new travelling routes. 



The two-day excursion of last season was devoted to the por- 

 tion of North Yorkshire lying directly east of Thirsk, — in other 

 words, to the Hambleton Hills and a part of Kyedale. The pro- 

 gramme lacked nothing in attractiveness, and it was probably want 

 of faith in the weather that alone prevented a large attendance. 

 As it was, about twenty members travelling by the morning train 

 from the north arrived at Thirsk a little before eleven o'clock, 



