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The Natuealist, 



received the annual report of this 

 Club, and are pleased to find that 

 it still maintains its position as 

 probably one of the most flourishing 

 societies of the kind in the kingdom. 

 During the past season, eight ex- 

 cursions have taken place as follows : 

 On April 12th, to Doveridge and 

 Rocester ; May 20th, to Cannock 

 Chase ; June 19th, to Dovedale ; 

 July 17th, to Rooches, in conjunc- 

 tion with the Manchester Clubs ; 

 August 3rd, 4th, and 5th, to Llan- 

 beris ; August 20th, to Rowley 

 Hills, in conjunction with the 

 Dudley Geological Society ; Sep- 

 tember 21st, to Cloud Hill, Bride- 

 stones, and Gorstonstone ; and 

 October 19th, to Chester. The 

 Society numbers 325 members, with 

 a balance in hand of £55 4s. 8d. 

 The president is Mr. J. Ward, 

 r. G. S. , and the secretary, the Rev. 

 T. W. Daltry, M.A., F.L.S. 



OvBNDEN Naturalists' Society. 

 — The monthly meeting of this 

 Society was held on Saturday, in 

 the Society's meeting room, Queen's 

 Head Inn, lUingworth, Mr. T. 

 Robertshaw, president, in the chair. 

 A number of geological specimens 

 were exhibited and named by Mr. 

 J. Spencer : Cardiocarpons, or fossil 

 fruit stones ; Catamites cannceformis, 

 by Mr. T. Cockroft, from Ringby 

 quarries : Vlodendron major, and 

 microscopic sections of fossil wood ; 

 Stigmaria ficoides ; fossil spores, 

 (two species) by Mr. J. Binns ; 

 Trilohites, Dudley silurian lime- 

 ston, by Mr. S. Collins. Mr. Uttley 

 Hartley presented to the Society a 

 number of beautifuWossil ferns, in- 

 cluding Pecopteris and Neuropteris, 



from Barnsley coal strata. Mr. D. 

 Wilson exhibited a case of foreign 

 birds, containing a pair of mana- 

 kins, green-throated humming bird, 

 changeable-throated humming bird, 

 tanagers, roller, and a number of 

 others. Mr. T. Hirst exhibited the 

 short-eared owl, shot at Denholme 

 Wood, cock, shot at Ogden, and 

 Chinese golden pheasant. Mr. R. 

 Earnshaw exhibited a stormy petrel, 

 which was caught alive in Commer- 

 cial Road, Halifax, October 21st. 

 This is the third of these rare birds 

 which have been taken alive in the 

 parish of Halifax : one about a year 

 ago at Southowram, and another 

 about 41 years since, at the Market 

 Place bottom, HaUfax. It is very 

 rare to see one of these birds inland, 

 except in the breeding season, and 

 it is said that they are seen further 

 from land than any other bird. 

 That other rare bird, the knot, was 

 shot on Warley Moor in September, 

 and we believe this is the first record 

 of this bird in the parish of Halifax. 



Rasthick and Brighouse Bot- 

 anical AND Naturalists' Society. 

 — The monthly meeting was held 

 on Monday evening, Nov. 8th, at 

 Brighouse. The newly-elected 

 president, Mr. Edwin Whiteley, 

 occupied the chair. In opening the 

 meeting the chairman congratulated 

 the members upon the number of 

 specimens exhibited, and the evi- 

 dently increasing interest taken in 

 the proceedings of the Society, and 

 its endeavours to secure a good and 

 useful library of scientific works. 

 He trusted that the interest taken 

 in the study of natural history 

 would continue, and that next year 



