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exhibited^ amongst which were some fine specimens of Aporrhaisj 

 Cyprcea, Mivrex, and Cymba. Specimens of the following land shells 

 were exhibited by Mr. G. Lister : — Bulimus acutus. B. montana, B. ohscu- 

 rus, Clausilia hiplicata, C. Rolphii, 0. perversa, G. laminata, Azeca tridens, 

 Zua sub-cylindrica. — Botany : A number of plants and mosses were laid 

 upon the table^ which had been received per train from Mr. J. Sykes, 

 Blackpool, and had been gathered by him in that locality ; amongst them 

 were the following in bloom : — Myosotis palustris, Fumaria offiomalis, 

 Geranium molle, Viola lutea, Euphorbia Paralias, Fedia olitoria, Salix 

 repens. The following local plants in bloom were exhibited by several 

 members : — Pedicidaris vidgaris, Fedia olitoria, Melica uniflora, Banun- 

 culus hulbosus, Heracleum Sphondylium, &c. — Geology : Mr. G. Lister 

 exhibited a jaw of a carboniferous fish recently found by him in the Low 

 Moor coal measures. — A. Clarke, Sec. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — An excursion was made on May 5th to 

 Brough and Welton Dale. About half-a-mile north of Brough Station, 

 by the side of the road to South Cave, a quarry of inferior oolite was 

 examined, in which fossils were plentiful ; the following were the princi- 

 pal species found : — Bhynchonella spinosa, very abundant, and with the 

 hair-like spines well preserved, Terebratula spinosa, Pecten demissus, and 

 another species resembling P. anmdatus, Lima duplicata, and L. gigantea 

 (1 small form), a large Pinna, perhaps P. mitis, and Modiola. (?) Close by 

 was a gravel pit, in which a gravel composed of angular fragments of local 

 rocks, in beds with a strong dip to the east, was seen to rest unconform- 

 ably on horizontal strata of sand and laminated clay. At a higher level ^ 

 towards EUoughton, was seen a drift gravel composed of rounded pebbles 

 of carboniferous sandstone and millstone grit, resembling that found at 

 about the same level at Heck. The party then proceeded to Welton 

 Dale. This is a picturesquely wooded valley winding up among the 

 Wolds ; the upper part, like so many valleys in chalk districts, is without 

 a trace of water ; but lower down in a dark woody dell are a number of 

 fine springs of pure deep blue pellucid water ; these springs are seen to 

 issue from the point where the base of the white chalk rests on a bed of 

 red chalk, like that at Speeton. Owing to the backwardness of the 

 season, not many plants were in flower : the dry, cold weather, too, was 

 unfavourable for finding moUusks and cryptogamic plants, but the result 

 of the afternoon's work in these departments was as follows : — MoUusca : 

 18 species, including Helix virgata, H. ericetorum, H. pidchella, Zonites 

 nitidulus, Clausilia biplicata, G. laminata, Vitrina pellucida (plentiful), 

 Zua lubrica, Bulimus obscurus, and Ancylus fluviatilis. Flowering plants, 

 84 'species, including Helianthemum vidgare, Viola hirta, Gerastium 

 arvense, Spergidaria rubra, Prunus Padus, Poterium, Sanguisorba, Ribes 

 rubrum, Saxifraga granidata, Silaus pratensis. Viburnum Lantana, Scabiosa 

 Golumbaria, Garlina vulgaris, Lamiumincisum, Sbiid Listeraovata. Mosses 

 and hepatic86, 35 species, among them being Anacalypta lanceolata (fr.), 



