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male and female), and redwings are again reported by Mr. C. Wemyss, 

 Cannon Hall. As the redwing singing in England is doubted, we vouch 

 for it from personal experience. Feb. 11, blackbird, song noted ; 13th, 

 common wild geese, flying southward ; 17th, chaflBnch and blue tit, in 

 song ; 18th, wigeons on the Dearne; starlings, larks, peewits, &c., 

 passing ; 21st, a hawk as large as the rough-legged buzzard on the Dearne 

 Dec, 1876, has hovered about same place several days, species not yet 

 proved : many snipes seen. 23rd, eight common gulls flew over Bamsley 

 to west ; Mar. 15, yellowhammer in song ; 16th, robin's nest and 

 young. — T. Lister. 



Bradfokd Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb- 19th, the president 

 in the chair. — Mr. Firth reported having taken Anisopteryx oescularia, 

 on Feb. 17th. Mr. Lorimer shewed Byhernia rupicap7'aria, an insect 

 new to the district, taken in Shipley Glen ; H. leucophearia, and several 

 other moths were exhibited. Mr. West read a paper on the plants of 

 Bradford and district, to the end of Umhelliferce. The president 

 exhibited four of Johnson's maps, illustrating the structure and the parts 

 of plants. 



Meeting March 5th, Mr. Firth in the chair. — Many of the early 

 flowering wild plants were shown in flower, including Lathrcea sguamaria^ 

 Myrrhis odorata, Chyrosplenium oppositifolium, and C. alternifolium. 

 Cymatophora flavicovnis was shown, having been taken on March 2nd. 

 Mr. Spencer exhibited a pair of dippers {Turdus cinclus). Geological 

 specimens from the coal measures, and a stoat which had been shot at 

 Clapham, were shown by Mr. Hebblethwaite ; the stoat shewed the 

 transition from its winter to its summer coat. The secretary exhibited 

 forty specimens of British ranunculaceous plants. — W. West, Sec. 



Clayton-West Naturalists' Society. — Meeting March 2nd : Lecture 

 on Physiology and Health," bytheBev. C. T. Pratt, of Cawthorne. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — Meeting for exhibition of specimens and 

 conversation, Feb. 13th. — The specimens exhibited included Achatina 

 acicula (new to district) and a collection of palates of mollusca by the 

 Bev. B. D. Maxwell ; and fossils, geological slides, and rock specimens, 

 by various members. 



Meeting Feb. 27th. — The secretary announced that it had been 

 decided to take steps for the formation of a local museum as soon as 

 sufficient funds had been raised for the purchase of the necessary furniture. 

 Mr. Birks, as recorder for botany, read a paper on "The Flora of the 

 Goole district." The Goole district — the area within a radius of twenty 

 miles of Goole — presented a great diversity of natural features, and a 

 corresponding variety in the flora. Goole was situated on alluvial, 

 formerly marshy ground at the junction of the large tidal river near the 

 head of the Humber, but the border of the district reached eastwards to 

 the chalk of the Yorkshire wolds and the oolites and lias of the Lincoln- 

 shire hills, and westwards to the magnesian limestone range. The 



