Reports of Societies. 



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mile from the town, by an old observer. It was missing after a few days, 

 supposed to have shifted because of so many disturbers. Mr. J. Goodyear 

 exhibited Colias Edusa, taken in June. The circular for the proposed 

 museum or grounds given by F. V. Wentworth, Esq., was approved. 

 The president gave an account of the excursion to Nostell, and the 

 meeting at Wakefield. He reported 24 species of resident birds, amongst 

 which were the carrion crow chased by lapwings, the jackdaw, rooks, 

 wood pigeon, three species of linnet, missel thrush, song thrush, black- 

 bird, yellow hammer, chaffinch, meadow pipit, pied wagtail, starling, 

 skylark, great, blue, and marsh tits, robin, wren, dunnock, and tree 

 sparrow. Of summer migrants, 17 species : the common and lesser 

 whitethroat, swallow, swift, house and sand martin, tree pipit, garden 

 warbler, black-cap, wood and willow warbler, chiifchaff, whinchat, 

 sedge warbler, redstart, cuckoo, and Ray's wagtail. Of other animals, 

 only the shrew and newt were noticed. The reports of flowers, insects, 

 shells, and mineral beds were detailed to the meeting. 



Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Club. — Monthly meeting, 3rd 

 July, the president, Mr. Joseph DufF, M.P.S., presiding. — A letter was 

 read from Mr. R. Calvert announcing the capture during the month of 

 June of several specimens of Colias Edusa at Walsingham, and on the 

 Flatts Farm, near Bishop Auckland . Addresses in reference to the field 

 day in Weardale were delivered by the president and Mr. J. P. Soutter. 

 Another member reported that a Roman grave had been found during 

 some draining operations at Crofts Gate, Walsingham ; it contained a 

 skeleton, which, however, crumbled away on being exposed to the 

 atmosphere. — Thos. Watt, Hon. Sec. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting July 10th, the president 

 in the chair. The evening was devoted to conversation and exhibition of 

 specimens ; amongst them were Habenaria chlmxmtha, Gercmium pyre- 

 naicum, G. phceum, Sagittaria sagittifolia, Lithospermum offichtale, 

 GSnanthe crocata, Ortiithopus perpusillus, &c. Entomology : Hadena 

 tlialasina, Ghelonia plantaginis, Anarta myrtilli, Scodiona belgiaria, 

 Amphydasis hetulmia (black var.)— H. T. S. 



Bury Natural History Society. — Monthly meeting, July 3rd, the 

 president, Mr. R. H. Alcock, F.L.S., in the chair. — Mr. Waddington 

 gave a very interesting discourse on the microscope ; Mr. Alcock exhibited 

 Lysimachia thyrsiflora, a new plant in this district ; Mr. G. Greenhalgli, 

 Jasione montana, Silene injiata, and Valeriana officinalis ; Mr. Kaye, a 

 mounted specimen of the common snipe (Scolopax gallinago) and the motli 

 Dgilephila limata, taken at Peacock Hall, near Gigg, being the second 

 of that species known to be taken in this neighbourhood ; and Mr. Hall, 

 Hadena glauca, taken in Birtle — a new insect in this neighbourhood. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — Excursion to Wentbridge, July 7th. — 

 The party drove from Knottingley to Wentbridge by way of DarringtoUj 

 and then walked down the picturesque valley called Brockerdale as far as 



