Eeports of 



Pocklington, F. R. M. S. , vice-presi- 

 dent in the chair. Mr. W. Nelson 

 read a paper on ^' The desirability 

 of our forming local collections," 

 which gave rise to a good discussion, 

 most of the speakers seeming to 

 coincide with Mr. Nelson's views. 



212th Meeting, May 30th, Mr. 

 Samuel Jefferson, F.C.S., presi- 

 dent, in the chair. Mr. Fredk. 

 Greenwood, Curator of the Leeds 

 Medical School, exhibited a splen- 

 didly executed series of dissections 

 of the common black slug. He also 

 showed Orchis ustulata in flower, 

 from Wetherby. Mr. Henry Crow- 

 ther, of the Philosophical Museum, 

 exhibited a large dog-fish (Scyllhim 

 canicula, also its egg-pouch ; the 

 nest of a tree-wasp ; and the nest 

 of the long-tailed tit. Mr. W. H. 

 Hay showed the eggs of the wren 

 and willow wren from Scarcroft. 

 Mr. Chas. H. Bothamley exhibited 

 Rhynchonella tetrahedra and Car- 

 (Jium truncaium from the middle 

 Lias, and specimens of the Permian 

 limestone from Pontefract, showing 

 the cavities and enclosed crystals. 

 Under the microscope the president 

 showed various Rotifers alive, Bra- 

 chionus, Hydatince, and Rotifer vul- 

 garis). Fossils, plants, and insects, 

 were shown by Mr. R. Milestone, 

 C. Smethurst, and S. Scholefield. 



213th Meeting, June 13th, the 

 president in the chair. Mr. Thomas 

 Hick, B. A. , B. Sc. , gave a paper on 

 " Protococcus pluvicdis,^^ illustrated 

 by living examples. Mr. Chas* 

 Smethurst showed larvae of Thecla 

 quercus and Orgyia gonostigma, 

 and a plant which Mr. F. Arnold 

 Lees, F. L. S. , named Rumex alpiniis, 



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Monks' Rhubarb, naturalized near 

 Cookridge Hall, near Leeds. — 

 W. D. R. 



LiVERSEDGE NaTURALISTS' SO- 

 CIETY. — Monthly meeting June 

 13th, the president, the Rev. W. 

 Fowler, in the chair. — Some un- 

 usually large Catamites from exca- 

 vations for cellars at Li versed ge 

 Hall were exhibited by Mr. Ro- 

 thery, and several plants were laid 

 on the table, the most interesting 

 ones being Orchis Morio, from 

 Whitley, Cardamine amara, from 

 Heath, near Wakefield, and Fuma- 

 ria claviculata, Luzida midtiflora, 

 and Empel/nim nigrum,, from Brim- 

 ham rocks, near Pateley Bridge. 

 The president made some remarks 

 on the disintegration of rocks by 

 the atmosphere, frost, and rain, 

 illustrating them by the exhibition 

 in the microscope of a piece of old 

 stained glass, which (through long 

 exposure to the above agencies) had 

 undergone "denudation," and 

 become almost a model of the 

 strata in certain parts of England. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Society. 

 —Monthly meeting May 27th, Mr. 

 R. Earnshaw, Y.P., in the 'chair. 

 Amongst the botanical specimens 

 collected by Messrs. C. Sheard, R. 

 Earnshaw, T. Scott, and W. 

 Townsend, were Botrychium luna- 

 ria, Ophioglossnm vulgatnm, Poly- 

 podium Bryopteris, Poly gala vidgaris 

 Pedicidaris sylvatica, Orchis mas- 

 cnla, Veronica montana, Lychnis 

 diurna, Pimpinella saxifraga, also 

 a number of botanical specimens 

 sent from Lincolnshire by the 

 president, Mr. T. Robertshaw, who 



