silia rugosa and vars. gracilior and 

 tumidula, Cochlicopa lubrica, and 

 var. lubricoides, viridula and ovata, 

 Achatina acicula, Carychium mini- 

 mum, Acme lineata. Mr. S. D. 

 Bairstow, of Huddersfield, named 

 and described the lepidoptera exhi- 

 bited in the larva and imago states, 

 but there was nothing specially 

 worthy of mention, Smerinthus 

 ocellatus being the best species 

 taken.. Mr. T. Lister, of Barnsley, 

 made some interesting remarks on 

 the birds which had been heard and 

 seen during the day. He observed 

 that nearly all the birds reported at 

 the Middlestown meeting had been 

 again reported at the Askern— some 

 of them in much greater numbers. 

 The house martin, scarce in some 

 parts this year, he had observed in 

 large numbers about Cudworth, 

 Brierly Manor, Kingston Hill, 

 South Kirkby, Elmsall, and Camp- 

 sall. The more common birds had 

 enlivened the lengthened ramble 

 with their songs and call-notes, but 

 on leaving the coal formation and 

 traversing the lower new red sand- 

 stone underlying the magnesian 

 limestone, the beds of gypsum, 

 red marl, the upper slaty limestone 

 and the new red sandstone, the 

 observations of birds, plants, and 

 shells were richer and more varied 

 in character. The birds reported 

 included : — Summer migrants — the 

 whitethroat, whinchat, sedge war- 

 bler, wood wren, chiffchafF, red- 

 start, garden warbler, black-cap, 

 lesser whitethroat, tree pipit, 

 cuckoo, Bay's, or yellow wagtail, 

 swallow, house and sand martins, 

 swift, landrail, and nightingale, 

 five or six pairs of which are 



UKALIST, 



reported between Barnsley and 

 Askern. The residents included — 

 corn bunting, common linnet, lesser 

 redpole, and most of the generally 

 comixion species. The geology of 

 the district was described by Mr. 

 H. F. Parsons, M.D., of Goole, 

 who exhibited several fossils col- 

 lected from the limestone quarries, 

 and a few of the recent fossil shells 

 found in the alluvial soil of the 

 locality. He also exhibited a 

 curious lizard and a common ringed 

 snake, captured during the day, 

 both of which he proved to be 

 harmless, whilst the adder or viper 

 (which he described) is a most dan- 

 gerous reptile. Mr. Washington 

 Teesdale, of Leeds, exhibited the 

 Field Naturalist's Microscope, an 

 invention of his own, more especi- 

 ally for dissecting purposes, and 

 now made for sale by the eminent 

 firm of Field and Son, of Birming- 

 ham. The instrument is furnished 

 with all the essential accessories of 

 condensers, and stage forceps, rack 

 motion, three object glasses, &c., 

 all of which are of the best possible 

 description. Mr. Teesdale also 

 spoke in high terms of the cheap 

 object glasses made by the firm of 

 Parker and Sons, of Birmingham. 

 Yotes of thanks were given to 

 F. B. Franks, Esq., of Campsall 

 Park, William Lee, Esq. , of Grove 

 Hall, and other gentlemen, for their 

 kind permission to the members of 

 the Society to visit and collect 

 specimens on their grounds. — ■ 

 J. M. Baeber. 



Erratum. — In June No., p. 166, 

 line 1, for " tinged " read 

 " ringed." 



B, BKOWN, PEINTEE, MARKBT-?LACE-COKNER, HUDDERSFIELD, 



