Repoets of 



splendid cases of butterflies, moths, 

 and beetles, together with male and 

 female specimens of the American 

 locust and grasshopper. Mr. G. L. 

 Lister named a number of shells, 

 stmongBt others Helix virgata, CocMi- 

 copa lubrica and Zonitescrystallinus. 

 Mr. A. Firth exhibited a large cala- 

 mite upwards of two feet long ; Mr. 

 E. Whiteley a very peculiar deposit 

 of oxide of iron in a piece of free 

 stone, which has a great resem- 

 blance to a sword blade. 



Meeting 10th April, the pre- 

 sident in the chair. A goodly 

 number of specimens in several 

 branches of natural history were 

 exhibited, in botany upwards of 70, 

 amongst them being Daphne lau- 

 reola, Chrysosplenium alternifolinm, 

 Ranunculus auricomus, and Nar- 

 cissus pse^ido-narcissus — all in bloom. 

 Mr. Henry Kershaw exhibited and 

 named a number of exotic ferns and 

 flowering plants ; Mr. G. L. Lister 

 some fresh-water shells ; Mr. W. 

 Kaye the eggs of the song thrush, 

 and a specimen of the poplar hawk 

 moth {Smerinthns poptdi) in the pupa 

 state. W. W. Turner, Hon. Sec. 



Stainland Naturalists' Society. 

 — April Meeting, the president, 

 Mr. J. E. Gar side, in the chair, 

 who exhibited red-throated grebe 

 and the American musk-rat. Mr. 

 C. C. Hanson exhibited eggs of 

 sedge warbler, redstart, house 

 martin, and blue titmouse. Papers 

 were read and discussed on animals 

 and birds. — C. C. Hanson. 



"Wakefield Naturalists' Soci- 

 ety. — Meeting April 14. — The sec- 

 retary produced the new microscope 



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purchased on behalf of the Society 

 from contributions subscribed for 

 the purpose. Mr. Sims exhibited 

 C. Flavicornis (taken in Haw 

 Park), C. ferrugata, P. pilosaria, 

 A. Pudihunda, T. rubricosa. Mr. 

 Talbot exhibited a white barn owl, 

 in good condition, full flesh, it 

 having had the two a,nterior claws 

 of the right foot cut ofl" ; they were 

 quite grown over, it having evi- 

 dently been trapped. He also 

 reported the wheatear as having 

 arrived in this neighbourhood on 

 the 4th of this month. — John 

 Spurlino, Secretary. 



West Ridino Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society. — The first 

 meeting and excursion of the season 

 took place on Easter Monday, the 

 I7th April. The excursion was to 

 the neighbourhood of Garforth, 

 near Leeds, on the Magnesian lime- 

 stone, and to Barwick-in-Elmete, 

 where the rector. Rev. C. A. Hope, 

 M.A., gave an interesting account 

 of the antiquities in the Church and 

 the Hall Tower Hill, a series of 

 ancient British earthworks sup- 

 posed to have been once occupied 

 by the celebrated Northumbrian 

 King Edwin, and near to v/hich he 

 stated that the battle of Winwaid 

 Field was fought in 655, when 

 Penda the Mercian was routed 

 and slain. Owing to the lateness 

 of the season and a wet morning, 

 the naturalists, although mustering 

 in great force, had but little sport, 

 and returned with but small bags 

 to Leeds. The meeting was held in 

 the Picture Gallery of the Mecha- 

 nics' Institute, Leeds, the president 

 (Mr. J. Wain Wright, F.L.S.) in 



