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forget the place. No matter, if they are old their appropriateness never 

 can be. And this reminds me our journal has a column for " Notes and 

 Queries/' but I never see any queries ! I wish I did ; surely the contri- 

 butors form a staff able and willing at any rate to try and answer them. 

 I fear the questioning spirit, so strong in childhood, does not always, even 

 among naturalists, continue in manhood. Let us all seek, in the coming 

 spring of young life and the fruition of later summer, to arouse anew, in 

 ourselves and in others, our too-dormant enthusiasm for God as seen in 

 His works. — F. A. L. 



§l^porfs of S>omtm. 



Baristsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 5th, the president, Mr. 

 T. Lister, in the chair. Mr. A. Kell showed a sketch prepared by him of 

 the ground to be applied for from F. V. Wentworth, Esq. , for a museum. 

 Meanwhile until improved trade aids the scheme, rooms are to be applied 

 for to the Public Hall Company, for meetings and an exhibition. The 

 observations of birds since last meeting may be briefly stated. Jan. 24, 

 a water-rail obtained from a neighbouring pool ; scarce here, not seen for 

 many years. A velvet scoter was brought to Mr. Z. Schofield, a young 

 male bird of full size. Jan. 31, a few herons haunted Blacker Dam, 

 Silkstone. One was unfortunately shot by a keeper. Feb. 2, the great 

 speckled woodpecker noted. Feb. 7, Mr. Wemyss writes of the occur- 

 rence of the gold-crested wren, bramblings, bullfinches, chaffinches of 

 both sexes. Starlings, stormcocks, and redwings singing in chorus at 

 Cannon Hall, were also noted. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Jan. 22nd, the president 

 in the chair. — Some geological specimens were exhibited, amongst which 

 was a piece of limestone which was one mass of encrinital remains, &c. 

 It must have been in glacial drift, for it was found whilst excavating at 

 Manningham. Mr. Andrews was the exhibitor. Amongst the other 

 objects were : Blatta Ammicana, shown by Mr. Crowther, who had found 

 it in a case of imported grapes : P. pilosaria, taken on Jan. 17th, at 

 Shipley by Mr. Saville : and some American plants exhibited by Mr. 

 West. Mr. Jagger delivered a lecture on " Coral," setting forth the very 

 great influence that this polype exercises on the physical geography 

 of some parts of the world, as well as the record of time it had built up. 



Meeting, Feb. 5th, the president in the chair. — Objects exhibited : 

 by Mr. Crowther, a horse-shoe crab, found in a barrel of American 

 oysters ; Mr. Gee, Hyhernia leucophcearia, taken at Shipley Feb. 3rd ; Mr, 

 West, living specimens of Hydra viridis, the habits, &c., of which he 

 explained ; Mr. Jagger, all the British butterflies but L. acis, some 

 moths, and a large number of fossils, amongst which were the following : 

 Terebratula ohovata, Patella rugosay Fusus contrarius, Plagiostoma spi- 

 nosa, Holaster subglohosa, Bhynchonellatetrahedra, smd Spongia ramosa. — 

 Wm. West, Sec. 



