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active workers, and the committee 

 earnestly urge tlie younger mem- 

 bers especially to cultivate a prac. 

 tical acquaintance with some branch 

 of science, so as to be able to add 

 to the general stock of information. 

 The Society has joined the West 

 Riding Consolidated Naturalists' 

 Society. The following were 

 elected office-bearers for the en- 

 suing year : — president, Mr. 

 Hunter'; vice-president, Mr. 

 Morris ; secretary, Br. Parsons ; 

 and five members of commit- 

 tee. It was decided to form 

 a library of works of reference. 

 After the meeting a soiree was 

 held, which was largely attended 

 by members and their friends. A 

 highly interesting lecture on " The 

 Theory of Evolution considered 

 from a geographical point of view," 

 was given by Dr. Kelburne King, 

 Mayor of Hull, and a number of 

 objects of interest were exhibited 

 by members and friends. — H, 

 Franklin Parsons, Hon. Sec. 



Hbckmondwike Naturalists' 

 Society. — Meeting 1st April, Mr. 

 J. M. Barber, vice-president, in the 

 chair. A few plants showing the 

 early flora of the district, were 

 exhibited by Mr. J. L. Adamson, 

 and named by the chairman, and 

 specimens of the three-spined 

 stickleback by Mr. R-obt. Smitli. A 

 paper was read by Mr. Margerison, 

 president of the Bradford Society, 

 on " The Ocean, our Natural Store- 

 house," which opened Avith a short 

 description of the anatomy of fishes 

 in general, and continued with their 

 early origin and fossil remains, and 

 stated that were a Royal Commis- 



sion to sit and enquire justly into 

 the present state of our fisheries, 

 it would confer more benefit to the 

 population at large than all the 

 Royal Commissions that will sit 

 during the present Parliament, as 

 the present cost of fish renders 

 it rather a luxury for the rich 

 than food for the masses. A short 

 history of. several fishes, describing 

 their habits, food, when in season, 

 and where caught, concluded the 

 paper. — J. Dearden, Hon. Sec. 



HUDDERSFIELD NaTURALISTS' So- 



oiETY. — Meeting April 3rd, the 

 president, Mr. G. T. Porritt, 

 F. L. S. , in the chair. Amongst the 

 specimens exhibited were a beauti- 

 ful example of Dodona from the 

 Crosland Moor quarries, by Mr. 

 Zilliken ; a collection of various 

 botanical specimens by Mr. A. 

 Spiegel ; a number of interesting 

 ornithological specimens from the 

 Falkland Islands, by Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk ; a nice series of Cymaio- 

 phora Jlavicornis, from Black Fir 

 Wood, by Mr. James Yarley, who 

 reported the species as having been 

 common this spring ; European 

 specimens of Chcerocampa Nerii, 

 Evlepia (jrammica, Lasiocampa, 

 ilicifolia, Notodohta hicolora and 

 Macrogaster arundinis, by Mr. S. 

 L. Moseley ; and specimens of 

 some species of Helix obtained 

 from amongst Egyptian corn by 

 Mr. Joseph Tindall. Mr. Walter 

 S. Rowntree reported having found 

 a nest of the long-tailed tit at 

 Woodsome the previous day. Mr. 

 James Varley stated that a field of 

 potatoes near his house, which had 

 been left in the ground from last 



