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Ti-iE Natuealist. 



Snieaton Crags, Wentbridge is situated on the edge of the coal measures, 

 at the foot of a range of low-wooded hills formed by the escarpment of 

 the magnesian limestone. At this point the little river Went cuts its way 

 from the west through the limestone range, in a narrow valley with steep 

 wooded and rocky sides. The slopes of this valley are the habitat of a 

 rich and characteristic limestone flora, including several species of con- 

 siderable rarity. The attention of the party was therefore chiefly given 

 to botany, with the following results : — Flowering plants, 184 sjjecies, 

 including Geranium columhinum, Hypericum moidmium, Astragalus 

 hypogloitis, Onohrychis safiva, Spiroia FiUpendula, Potentilla verna , 

 Asperula cynanchica, Inula conyza, Erigeron acris, Campanula glomerata, 

 Oplirys apifera, Epipactis latifolia, Sclerochloa rigida, Bromus erectus, and 

 Bracliypodium pinnatum. Ferns, 5. Mosses, 37, including Weissia 

 verMcillata, Tortida tortuosa and nitida, IHdymodon luridus, Encalypta 

 vulgaris, E. streptocarpa, Fissidens adiantoides, Anom,odon vitiodosus, 

 Isothecium myurum, and Hypmim riparvmn (fr.), crassinervium, molluscum, 

 Intescens, murale (fr.), and chrysophyllum. Hepaticse, 4, including Mado- 

 theca platyphylla, and Jungermannia Wilsoniana. Lichens, 7. Algae, 

 2: Fungi, 3, including Polyporus fraxineus and Dacymyces chrysocoma. 

 In other departments little was done, the mollusca seen included HeVm 

 lapicida Mid Bulimus ohscurus ; birds were remarkably scarce, the blue - 

 rock pigeon being the most noteworthy observed. Many nests of the 

 great wood ant were seen. Several sections of the magnesian limestone 

 were seen ; the rock, which is near the base' of the series, is a soft cream- 

 coloured limestone in thick beds, with sparry cavities, like that at Ponte- 

 fract, No fossils were found, — H, Frankliis Parsons, Sec, 



HuDDEKSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Cltjb, —Meeting July 13th, in the Museum, 

 South-street, Mr, G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., vice-president, in the chair, — ■ 

 Mr, James Yarley exhibited a large number of ferns and flowering 

 plants from Cleethorpes, Windermere, and other localities. Mr. George 

 Brook, the head of a rabbit shot near Stockton, having the lower teeth 

 protruded for towards two inches out of the mouth, and curved upwards 

 in the manner of tusks ; the upper ones were also much longer than 

 usual, and curved sideways : it seemed curious how the animal could 

 have taken its food and maintained such a healthy appearance. In 

 conchology, Mr. John Conacher, jun., shewed Anodonta cygnea, var. 

 incrassata, from ISTostell. the first record of its occurrence in the West 

 Hiding, and only the second Yorkshire specimen ; also Dreisscna poJy- 

 laorpha, which he found attached to the above shell. In lepidoptera the 

 chairman exhibited a series of Herminia tarsipennalis, reared from eggs ; 

 the specimen of Eupithcecia trisignata taken in the Nostell excursion of 

 the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union ; a variable series of Arctia mentliastri ; 

 black Amphydasis betularia, &c. ; also larvse of Chora glabraria, from the 

 New Forest. Mr. S. D. Bairstow, a box of various species taken during 

 theJast few weeks in North Wales, cliicily at Llanrwst, and including 



