Keports of Societies. 



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WAKBriELD Naturalists' So- 

 ciety. — Monthly Meeting May 4th, 

 J. Wain Wright, Esq.,' F.L.S., in 

 the chair. — Mr. Walshaw exhibit- 

 ed a potato ball from the Bath 

 oolite, found in a block of stone in 

 building Christ Church, Thornes. 

 Mr. Talbot : two male lesser red- 

 poles. We wish to draw the 

 attention of our botanical friends 

 that there were no specimens in 

 that department, and will be glad 

 to hear from them. — J. Spurling, 

 Hon. Sec. 



York and District Field 

 Naturalists' Society. — The usual 

 monthly meeting of this Society 

 was held on Wednesday evening. 

 May 10th, Mr. C. D. Wolstenholme 

 in the chair. — Mr. Simmons exhib- 

 ited larvae, very finely preserved, 

 of Setina irrorella, Noctua xantho- 

 gmpha, and Mania typica, also 

 Lohophora lohulata, and Citcullia 

 absinthii ; the chairman (Mr. Wol- 

 stenholme), eggs of Schintz's sand- 

 piper {Tringa Schintzii ) and Tem- 

 minck's stint {Tringa Temminchii ) ; 

 Mr. T. W. Wilson, Erythroxylon 

 coco, a plant from South America ; 

 Mr. Webster the following plants : 

 Alyssum calycinmn, and several 

 forms of Viola tricolor ; Mr. Hel- 

 strip, a fine pair of wrynecks ( Yimx 

 torquilla), also eggs of the same ; 

 Mr. Wm. Chapman, several fossils 

 out of boulder clay from the east 

 coast ; the secretary (Mr. Prest), 

 a series of Eupithcecia albipunctata, 

 also several black forms of that 

 species, bred from larvse taken at 

 Bishop's Wood, Cawood, and a fine 

 series of Tceniocampa leucographa 

 from South Wales, and Scotosia 

 certata, bred this season. 



The West Riding Consolidated 

 Naturalists' Society, — The second 

 excursion of the season took place 

 on Saturday afternoon, the 6th 

 May. There t\ras a large muster of 

 members from the various local 

 societies, and the district selected 

 for investigation was Coxley Valley, 

 a highly picturesque and most in- 

 teresting hunting-ground. Tea was 

 served in the Church Scliool-room, 

 at Middlestown, the members being 

 Vt^aited upon by the ladies connected 

 with the Naturalists' Society of 

 that place. At 5 o'clock, the meet- 

 ing was held in the same room, the 

 president, Mr. Joseph Wainwright, 

 F.L.S., in the chair. The Selby 

 Naturalists' Society and the 

 Huddersfield Literary and Scientific 

 Society were unanimously admitted 

 into the Union. The usual reports 

 upon the collections made during 

 the day were then read. Mr. 

 Thomas Lister, of Barnsley. gave an 

 account of the birds observed dur- 

 ing the day, and also of the dates 

 of arrival of the spring migrants in 

 South Yorkshire. Mr. W. Talbot 

 did the same for the Lower Calder 

 Valley. The birds observed by 

 him were the summer visitors — the 

 redstart, whinchat, grasshopper 

 warbler, sedge warbler, blackcap, 

 garden warbler, whitethroat, lesser 

 whitethroat, wood warbler, willow 

 warbler, chiff-chafi", tree pipit, Ray's 

 wagtail, cuckoo, swallow, martin, 

 and sand martin ; of resident birds, 

 — the missel thrush, song thrush, 

 blackbird, hedge accentor, red- 

 breast, greater tit, blue tit, marsh 

 tit, long-tailed tit, pied wagtail, 

 meadow pipit, skylark, bunting, 

 blackheaded bunting, yellow bun- 



