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The Naturalist. 



eral business of the Society had 

 been transacted, the plants were 

 named and commented upon. 

 Owing to the very wet weather, 

 only 40 specimens were procured, 

 35 of them being in bloom. One 

 of the members, however, had been 

 at Sherburn, and had gathered 

 several plants peculiar to that 

 neighbourhood. He reported that 

 in the church-yard there, the 

 deadly nightshade, Atropa Bella- 

 donna, was growing quite abun- 

 dantly, and he produced that 

 plant, along with others, at the 

 meeting. — E. Stoks, Secretary. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Society. 

 — The monthly meeting of this 

 Society was held on Saturday, 

 July 31st, in the Society's meeting- 

 room, Mr. T. Robertshaw, the 

 President, in the chair. Mr. J. 

 Tindall, of Huddersfield, read a 

 very interesting paper on " The 

 Limestone Formation and its be- 

 longings," which was listened to 

 with very great interest. A num- 

 ber of botanical specimens, collected 

 by Messrs. C. Sheard, J. Downs, 

 and J. Ogden, were laid on the 

 table, and named by Mr. D. Wil- 

 son and Mr. R. Earnshaw, which 

 were as follows : — Sagittaria sagitti- 

 folia, Sanguisorha officinalis, Sta- 

 chys Betonica, suid palustris, Bidens 

 tripartita, Poterium Sanguisorha, 

 Circma lutetiana, C. alpina, Gera- 

 nium phcEum, &c., 4sc. — Mr. T. 

 Hirst exhibited a number of very 

 rare birds, including a pair of 

 greenshanks, pair of spotted wood- 

 peckers, pair red-headed wood- 

 peckers, pair green-throated hum- 

 ming birds, red-throated Oriole 



blue creeper, Cupreous cuckoo, 

 and one peregrine falcon. — Mr. T. 

 Cockroft exhibited an albino spar- 

 row, with pink eyes, taken in Mr. 

 Horner's brewery, Shaw Lane, 

 July 3, having been bred there. — 

 Mr. E,. Earnshaw exhibited a 

 number of birds' eggs, including 

 heron, oyster-catcher, guillemot, 

 jay, turtle dove, nut-hatch, wry- 

 neck, lesser redpole, great tit- 

 mouse, common sandpiper, stone- 

 chat, greater whitethroat, swallow, 

 bullfinch, and heron gull. — Mr. 

 S. Collins exhibited larvae of 

 Eriogaster lanestris and a dragon- 

 fly. A number of geological speci- 

 mens were exhibited (which had 

 been found during the day) by 

 Messrs. J. Binns, J. Spencer, T. 

 Cockroft, and T. Robertshaw. Du- 

 ring the month the members have 

 had one of their rambles for the 

 season, the place selected being 

 that portion of Airedale between 

 Keighley and Steeton. The mem- 

 bers were taken in conveyances 

 from Ovenden to Keighley, and on 

 arriving there they were invited to 

 the house of Mr. J. Calvert, to 

 look at his collection of birds 

 and lepidoptera. The party were 

 also invited to the house of Mr. 

 J. Milner, to inspect his collec- 

 tion of moths and beetles, which 

 was also a very good and interesting 

 collection. On leaving Keighley, 

 they went by Skipton Road to 

 Hawcliffe, a beautiful place on the 

 west side of Skipton Road. From 

 the top of the clilf they had a fine 

 view of the surrounding country, 

 whence they went to Steeton, and 

 afterwards by the river-side to 

 Keighley, arriving about six o'clock 



