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vulgaris (fr.) and E. streptocarpa ; Grimmia apocarpa, Zygodon viridissi- 

 mus, Bryum capillare (fr.) Fissidens adiantoides (fr.) Leskea polycarpa (ir.) 

 Anomodon viticulosus, Hypnumlutescens, H. striatum, B. tenellum (fr.) M. 

 murale (fr.) R. rusciforme, H. denticulatum (fr.) H. molluscum, and H. 

 chrysophyllum. The Hepaticse found were Plagiochila asplenioides, 

 Jungermannia hicuspidata, Lophocolea hidentata, Madotheca platyphylla, 

 Fegatella conica, and Marchantia polymorpha. About 18 lichens 

 were found, including Placodium candicans and murorum, Squamaria 

 saxicola, Pannaria nigra, Verrucaria rupestris and nigrescens, Collema 

 melcenum, &c. ; and seven fungi, including Agaricus suh-halteatus, 

 Morchella esculenta, and JEcidium violce. In the absence of the officers of 

 the Geological Section, Mr. Sorby, F.R.S., presided at the sectional 

 meeting, and Mr. C. H. Bothamlcy, of the Yorkshire College, Leeds, 

 acted as secretary. Some well-preserved fossils from a block of magnesian 

 limestone in Went Yale were exhibited, also some specimens showing a 

 peculiar appearance produced by two surfaces of magnesian limestone 

 dovetailing very irregularly into one another. It was mentioned that in 

 the Knottingley and Swinton railway cutting there might be seen good 

 sections of the coal measures with several faults. Magnesian limestone 

 was the only rock visible in Went Vale. Mr. Thomas Lister, Barnsley, 

 secretary of the Vertebrate Section, reported 23 resident birds observed 

 by different members during the excursions ; there were also observed of 

 swimming birds the common and herring gull. Of spring migrants 12 were 

 observed ; of those not hitherto reported by him this season were the 

 common whitethroat, lesser whitethroat, blackcap and grasshopper warbler. 

 Next to the willow warbler, the most numerous was the chiff-chaff ; it 

 was remarked by Mr. Lister, and also by Mr. Grassham of Leeds, that 

 never in their varied experience had they noted so often this little 

 warbler's two-fold call. Of other vertebrate animals reported, there were 

 the water vole, water shrew, and squirrel (a young one of the latter being 

 placed alive on the table), the pike, and the eel. On the motion of Mr. 

 Arthur R. Kell, C.E., Barnsley, seconded by Mr. James Fogg, Wake- 

 field, and after a discussion, in which Mr. C. H. Bothamley (who read a 

 memorandum of the views entertained by the Leeds Naturalists' Club, 

 on the subject), the secretary, Mr. Porritt, Mr. E. E. Prince, of Leeds, 

 Mr. Lister, and Mr. W. Cash, F.G.S., of Halifax, took part, it was 

 resolved that a combined exhibition of natural history objects and 

 scientific apparatus be held in Leeds during the week of the annual 

 meeting (since fixed for January, 1879). Messrs. H. C. Sorby, Geo. 

 Brook, ter., C. P. Hobkirk, and T. Lister were then requested to join in 

 the invitation to the British Association to meet in Sheffield in 1879. 

 At the suggestion of the president it was agreed to consider at the next 

 meeting the desirability of appointing a Publication Committee. Dr. 

 Parsons informed the meeting that a Natural History Society is now 

 forming at Hull, whereupon it was resolved that they be invited to join in 

 the meeting at Brough. — W. Denison Roebuck, Sec. 



