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found in tlie district, including a reversed specimen of CocJilicopa tridens 

 and a Helix caniiana, with tlie spire very much raised. The beetles were 

 Badister bipustulatus, Pterostichus striola, P. niger, P. madidus, P. 

 cupreus, Rhagium bifasciatum, Helophorus aquaticus, Agabus uliginosus, 

 Hydroporus 12-pustulatus, Acilius sulcatus, Amara communis, Geotrupes 

 stercorarius, Meloe violacea, Nebria brevicolUs, Phytonomus punctatus. 

 Mr. William Prest, of York, president of the Entomological Section, 

 reported that nothing worthy of note had been taken. He exhibited, 

 along with Mr. Dennis, a remarkable sheet of web, some 10ft. long and 

 5ft. wide, from a chocolate store in York, made by T. albipunctella, and the 

 specimen of Pieris cratoegi, taken in Bradford, was also shown by its 

 captor ; Mr. Thos. Lister, a specimen Choerocampa Nerii, taken at 

 Hemel-Hempstead, in the garden of Capt. Daly, late of Monk Bretton. 

 Dr. H. Franklin Parsons^ of Goole, secretary of the Botanical Section, 

 recorded 135 flowering plants and ferns, the most noteworthy being 

 Helleborus viridis, Actsea spicata, Cochlearia ofiicinalis, Yiola hirta, 

 Saponaria officinalis, Cerastium arvense, Rhamnus catharticus, E-osa 

 rubiginosa, Bryonia dioica, Pimpinella magna. Campanula latifolia. 

 Primula caulescens (Oxlip), Paris quadrifolia, Convallaria majalis, 

 Colchicum autumnale, and Equisetum maximum. A good number of 

 mosses, lichens, and fungi were collected, but the time at the disposal of 

 the section was not sufficient to allow them to be examined, and they 

 were referred for microscopic examination to members of the committee. 

 On the Geological Section being called upon for a report, Mr. Wm. 

 Denison Boebuck, of Leeds, secretary of the Union, stated that having 

 heard from Mr. Joseph Tindall that neither he nor Mr. James Spencer 

 of Halifax could be present, the management of the section had devolved 

 upon the general officers ; and that Mr. Edward Brooke, F.G.S., of 

 Huddersfield, had been chosen president, and Mr. H. B. Moiser, F.G.S.,' 

 of York, secretary of the section. There was no further report, nor any 

 observations made upon the geology of the district. Mr. Thos. Lister, 

 of Barnsley, secretary of the Vertebrate Section, reported, during the 

 day's excursion — Spring migrants : wood wren, chifi'-chaff, whitethroat, 

 sedge warbler, redstart, swallow, house martin, sand martin, swift, tree 

 pipit, corn crake ; Besident birds : blackbird with eggs, thrush, missel 

 thrush, lesser redpole with eggs, starling with young, built in the great 

 oak at Cowthorpe, great, blue, and long-tailed tits, chaffinch, wood 

 pigeon, meadow pipit, yellowhammer, grey wagtail, and pied wagtail. — 

 A vote of thanks to the subscribers to the Union, of which the secretary 

 read a list, was then proposed by Mr. Henry Crossley, of Wetherby, who 

 took this opportunity of welcoming the Union to his native tov> n. Votes 

 of thanks to Dr. J. S. Wesley, the local secretary, to whom much of the 

 success of the day was due ; to Mr. John Emmett, of Boston Spa, for 

 exhibiting his collections of shells of the neighbourhood ; to Mr. Jones, 

 gardener at Bibston Park ; and to the chairman, concluded the 

 proceedings. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sec. 



