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Larentia salicata, from Shipley Glen, new to the district. Mr, H, Spencer 

 showed a hawfinch, from Ripon . 



Meeting June 13th, Mr. Firth in the chair, — ^Mr. Andrews exhibited 

 some home-made microphones, the working and use of which he explained. 

 Mr. Carter showed Selenia lunaria, new to the district. Mr. Crowther 

 showed some Lyrie fish and a hermit crab, from Morecambe. Mr. 

 Lambert showed Emmelesia affinitata, &c. Mr. Suthers showed Flatyp- 

 teryx falcula, Lomaspilia marginata, and Acidalia candidata. Mr. Firth 

 gave a very interesting paper on the migration of birds. — Wm. West, Sec. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — An excursion was made on May 16th, 

 jointly with the Selby Naturalists' Society, to Tickhill and Koche Abbey. 

 Meeting at Doncaster, the united party drove by Loversall and Wadsworth 

 to Tickhill, and thence through Sandbeck Park to Roche Abbey. At 

 Tickhill the remains were examined of the ancient Norman castle, built 

 on, and partly scarped out of, a mound of new red sandstone rock. The 

 ruins of Roche Abbey stand in a narrow but picturesque valley, with 

 rocky, wooded sides, formed of the lowest beds of the magnesian lime- 

 stone, which yield a fine white stone extensively quarried ; the bottom 

 of the valley cuts through the limestone to the coal measures. The woods 

 around Roche Abbey abound with Myosotis sylvatica, and Vinca minor 

 and other plants, possibly due to former cultivation, are found near. A 

 heavy shower of rain somewhat interfered with collecting, but 53 flowering 

 plants were recorded, the most noteworthy finds being Helleborus viridis, 

 Aquilegia vidgaris, Arabis hirsuta, Viola Reichenbachiana, Inula Conyza^ 

 Gentiana Amarella, Veronica montana, Daphne Laureola, and Scolopen- 

 drium vulgare ; 22 mosses were found, among them being Didymodon 

 rnbellus, Tortula rigidula, T. convoluta, and T. ambigua, Encalypta strepto- 

 carpa, Mnium rostratum. (f r. ), M. stellare, Thamnium alopecurum, Brachy- 

 thecium populeum ; 5 hepaticse, including Juyigermannia bicrenata (fr.), 

 Plagiochila asplenioides, and Madotheca platyphylla, and two or three 

 lichens and fungi ; 8pongilla Jiuviatilis, and a few other aquatic animals, 

 and some diatoms were found in the stream through the valley. — H. 

 FnANKLiN Parsons, Sec. 



Huddersfield Scientific Club. — Meeting June 14th, Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, president, in the chair. — Mr. C. P. Hobkirk showed Splachnum 

 sphcEvicum, from Wharmpton Moor, near Greenfield. Mr. John Conacher 

 a nice collection of plants from various localities in Scotland, gathered by 

 himself during the last two months ; also the very rare Limax tenellus, 

 found by himself in Forfarshire. Mr. S. D. Bairstow, a nice series of 

 Melanthia albicillata and Cidaria silaceata, from Bishop's Wood near 

 ^ Selby, a few days previously ; and recorded several specimens of Antidea 

 badiata, taken as imagos at the same time. He had never previously 

 known the species out so late. Mr. S. L.^Mosley, several specimens of a 

 black form of the larva of Abraxas grossulariata, very different from the 

 ordinary type : they were from Hartlepool, where a colony usually turned 



