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The Naturalist. 



species, one or two of which bear his name. We shall not soon forget the 

 pleasant chats we have had with him when looking over his neatly-set 

 collections, &c, — G. T. P. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. 

 —Meeting April 18th, Mr. E. 

 Margerison, president, in the chair. 

 Among the plants exhibited were 

 Primula elatior, Adoxa moschatel- 

 lina, Chrysosplenium alternifolium. 

 An interesting paper on " The deep 

 Sea," was read by the x^resident. 



Mebtijstg May 2nd, Mr, J. Firth, 

 vice-president, in the chair. — The 

 meeting was devoted to conversa- 

 tion and exhibition of specimens ; 

 the chairman suggested that notes of 

 observations should be made on the 

 birds found in the neighbourhood, 

 with the dates of arrival and de- 

 parture of the migrants, and it was 

 arranged that rambles should take 

 place during the season for this and 

 similar purposes. 



Meeting May 16th, the president 

 in the chair. — The lepidoptera 

 exhibited included Acherontia Atro- 

 pos, Tryphmna i7iterjecta, &c. 

 Amongst plants were Myrrhis odor- 

 ata, and Lathyrus macrorrhizus. 

 A paper on " The Earth's Crust " 

 was read by the president, in 

 which, after alluding to the 

 earliest formations of the earth's 

 crust, he described the different 

 strata of rocks, and their succession 

 in time. — J. W. W, Brook, Hon. 

 Sec. 



GooLE Scientific ^ ' Society. — 

 The first excursion of the season 



was made on Saturday, May 13th, 

 with the Selby Naturalists' Society, 

 to Conisborough. There was a fair 

 attendance from both Societies, and 

 the weather was all that could be 

 wished. The party drove from 

 Doncaster to Sprotborough, where 

 they were kindly shown over the 

 church, &c. , by the vicar, the Rev. 

 G. F. Surtees. The church con- 

 tains some interesting antiquities, 

 especially a stone sanctuary chair, 

 believed to be of pagan Saxon date. 

 The excursionists were also shown 

 through the grounds of Sprot- 

 borough Hall, and then walked 

 through the rocky woods which 

 border the lovely valley of the Don 

 to Conisborough, where the castle, 

 with its lofty and massive Norman 

 keep, was duly examined. On the 

 route many interesting plants were 

 gathered, including Taxus haccata, 

 Aquilegia vulgayis, and Convallaria 

 majalis (all native), Hellehorus viri- 

 dis (denizen), Lamium galeohdolon, 

 Lithospermum officinale, Orchis mas- 

 cula, Viola hirta, &c. At Warms- 

 worth many good sections of the 

 magnesian limestone were seen, and 

 at the brick-yards at Conisborough 

 the junction of that rock with the 

 coal measures was well exposed, 

 together with the upper beds of the 

 latter series : hardly .any fossils, 

 however, were found. 



H. F. Parsons, M.D., Sec. 



PIeckmondwike Naturalists' 

 Society. — Meeting 29th April, the 

 president, Mr. T. B. Oldfield, in the 

 chair, The specimens exhibite^^ 



