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The Naturalist. 



266th Meeting. October 16th, the president in the chair, — Paper 

 read, " Celestial Objects for Common Telescopes," illustrated by photo- 

 graphs shown by the lime-light, by Mr. John Garbutt. — Wm. Denison 

 Roebuck, Sec. 



MiRFiELD Naturalists' Society. — Meeting 13th October, the Rev. B, 

 Wilson in the chair. — A lecture was delivered by the Rev. W. Fowler, 

 M. A., entitled How Plants grow." The lecture was illustrated by very 

 interesting chemical experiments. This being the annual meeting, the 

 secretary read his report, wherein he said that the society numbered 38 

 members. The library consisted of 37 volumes. The financial statement 

 showed a balance in hand of £2 9s. 5d. The officers were elected. Rev. 

 B. Wilson being re-elected president, and Mr. Edwin Stoks, secretary. 



OvENDEN Naturalists' Societv. — Meeting Sept. 29th, Mr. T. Scott, 

 president, in the chair. Mr. Charles Sheard laid on the table a number 

 of specimens in botany (which were small on account of the lateness of 

 the season) ; Mr. T. Cockroft a goodly number of geological specimens, 

 including a splendid Lepidodendron. 



Stainland Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting at Burwood, 

 August 6th, Mr. Stott in the chair. — The following specimens were 

 exhibited : — By Mr. F. Lumb, king parrot, parroqnet, and flycatcher, 

 from Australia ; by Mr. B. Garside, a pair of waxbills, dragon-fly, and 

 ■eggs of black-headed bunting, red linnet, greater whitethroat and bull- 

 finch ; by Mr. J. Edwards, a collection of plants. 



Monthly Meeting, Sept. 3rd, Mr. J. E. Garside, president, in the 

 chair. — Specimens of the guillemot, puffin and young, were exhibited by 

 Mr. B. Garside, shot at Flambro' by Mr. J. Casson. There was a good 

 table of botanical specimens collected by Messrs. Edwards, Hanson, and 

 Oalvert at Castle-carr Moors, near Halifax. As Sir Henry Edwards and 

 party were passing the lower lake adjoining the Castle on Tuesday 

 evening, the 4th instant, a bevy of forty-five wild ducks rose from the 

 -water. The party killed fourteen on the spot, and ten others fell 

 vrounded into the lake, and were recovered by retrievers the following 

 day, as they were all more or less disabled. They were mostly black 

 scoters, with a yellow patch on the bill ; the rest were mallards, and it 

 was thought that there were a few divers amongst those that flew away 

 on the first discharge. 



Monthly Meeting, Oct. 1st, at Burwood, Mr. Hanson in the chair. — 

 Papers were read on the badger (one having been caught at Ripponden) 

 and other subjects, after which specimens were exhibited — by Mr. 

 13. Garside, barn owl, shot on Greetland Moor ; Mr. R. Calvert, 

 Colias Edusa ; Nartliecium ossifragum, Gentiana campestris, and G. Pneu- 

 monantJie, and other plants, were laid on the table. — C. 0. Hanson. 



West Riding Geological and Polytechnic Society. — The annual 

 meeting was held in Huddersfield, on 24th October, Col. Thos. Brooke^ 



