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Belemnites acutus, Cardinia crassissima, and other species, Pecten cequalis 

 and P. demissus, Taneredia ferrea, Pholadomya amhigua, Lima gigantea, 

 and L. duplicata. But little was attempted in the way of botany, the 

 geological attractions proving most powerful to a party from a neigh- 

 bourhood so unfossiliferous as that of Goole. The following plants, 

 however, were observed : — Sisymhrkmi Sophia, Ornithopus perpusillus, 

 Trifolium arvense, Scleranthus annuus, Anchusa arvensis, Echium vulgare, 

 Chenopodium album yax.viride Agrostis Spica-Venti, and Holcus mollis, 

 Chara vulgaris. The liverwort M.archantia polymorpha was found, 

 bearing male and female receptacles on the same plant. In a rill in one 

 of the pits grew two beautiful algae, Draparnaldia glomerata and Choet- 

 ophora endivicefolia with exquisitely branched miscroscopic filaments. 

 Several specimens of an uncommon fungus Lentinus tigrinus were found 

 growing on the railway sleepers. The north of Lincolnshire, although 

 but Httle worked hitherto, affords a fine field for the botanist, no fewer 

 than 79 species hitherto unrecorded for the county having been sent by 

 Mr. Fowler to the Botanical Record Club last year. It was decided that 

 the next excursion should be held on Aug. 26th, to Drewton Vale and 

 Newbald, via Brough. — H. Franklin Parsons, M.D., Sec. 



Heckmondwike Naturalists' Society. Monthly Meeting 22nd July, 

 the president, Mr. T. B. Oldfield, in the chair, who exhibited some 

 geological specimens from Coley Quarry, and a yellow-ringed snake from 

 South America. There were also a few plants exhibited, and the evening 

 was spent in discussion and conversation. The following works were 

 added to the library, viz : — " Antiquity of Man," and " Principles of 

 Geology," by Sir Charles Lyell : and " Geology for Students," by Prof, 

 Green. 



HuDDERSFiELD Naturalists' SOCIETY. — Meeting July 24th, the 

 president, Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., in the chair. — Mr. Joseph Tindall 

 exhibited the following chalk fossils, from the neighbourhood of Brid- 

 lington : Spongia capitata, S. plana, and S. ventriculites ; also a peculiar 

 green-stained flint from Flamborough Head ; and stalactite and stalagmite 

 from a new cave discovered by his brother Edward Tindall. In botany, 

 Mr, Henry M'Kenzie exhibited Blechnum boreale, having both male and 

 female leaves on one frond, from Harden Clough ; and the following 

 from Airedale : — Polystichum lobatum, Asplenium Adiantum-nigrum, 

 Polypodium Dryopteris, Aspidium dilatata var. cristata, Aspidium spinu- 

 losum, &c. Mr. J. R. Dore showed Ophioglossum vulgatum from Whitley. 

 In lepidoptera, the president showed larvae of Cheimatobia brumata, C. 

 horeata, and Ebidea crocealis, preserved and sent to him by Lord 

 Walsingham. Mr. George Brook, imagos of lodis vernaria, Clostera 

 curtula, Cucullia asteris, larvae of Diphthera Orion, and preserved larvae 

 of Plusia chrysitis, &c. Mr. H. M'Kenzie exhibited a splendid example 



