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That these beauties are appreciated by 

 this Society is shown by the fact that abont 

 seventy members after enjoying a ramble 

 on the neighbouring moors assembled with 

 well filled vasculums, at the Greave, where 

 an excellent tea was provided, after doing 

 justice to which the ordinary business of 

 the Society was proceeded with, Mr. B. 

 Bradley, the president occupying the chair. 



The Hon. Sec. Mr. S. Teale read the 

 minutes of the last meeting, at which a 

 proposal was made that during next year, 

 the Society should publish a Fauna 

 and Flora of Huddersfield and the sur- 

 rounding district. This project was freely 

 discussed, the feeling in its favour being 

 unanimous. 



The botanical specimens laid on the 

 table were very numerous, there being no, 

 less than one hundred and thirty distinct 

 species, Peter Inchbald, Esq., of Storthes 

 Hall, first addressed the meeting on the 

 subject of the various plants exhibited 

 and was followed by Mr. W. Guthrie, and 

 Mr. John Armitage. The following are 

 some of the rarities exhibited : — 

 Actoea spicata (Liley Wood) 

 Lepidium Smithii, 

 Meconopis Cambricum 

 Spergula arvcnsis 

 Erodium cicutarium 



Impatiens fulva (near EUand W. Guthrie.) 



Genista tinctoria 

 Lotus corniculatus 

 Vicia Cracca 

 Trifolium procumhens 

 Geum rivale 

 Polemonium ccendeum 

 Myosotis palustris 

 M. sylvatica 

 Bcropliularia nodosa 

 Scutellaria galericulata 

 Lysimachia nemorum 

 L. vulgaris 

 Plantago media 

 Polygonum Bistorta 

 Pumex cristata 

 Juncus hufonius 

 Epipactus latifolia 



Tamus communis 

 Bryonia dioica 

 OpMoglossum vulgatum 

 Aspidium aculeatum 

 Galeopsis Ladanum 



Alfred Beaumont, Esq., exhibited two 

 very rare birds, one the Andiilusian Hemi- 

 pode, Hemipodius tachydromus, was recently 

 taken alive, at Fartown,near Huddersfield, 

 this is the second recorded capture of this 

 bird in England ; the other Wilson's 

 Petrel, Thalassidroma Wilsonii. Mr. 

 Beaumont's collection of British Birds 

 was a source of much gratification to the 

 members present, besides the above men- 

 tioned specimens he has recently added an 

 example of the Swallow Tailed Kite, Falco 

 furcatus, caught a few years ago, in the 

 woods of Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire. Mr. 

 Beaumont also exhibited a case of sixty 

 species of British Phryganidoe. 



Some rare Coleoptera were also exhibited 

 by Mr. W. H. Charlesworth. 



Botanical Society of Edinbuegh. 



xxix session — viii. meeting. 



The society met on Thursday, 8th June, 

 in the Histological Class-room at the Royal 

 Botanic Garden - Professor Balfour in the 

 chair. 



The following donations to the library 

 were laid on the table : — Plants Indigenous 

 to the colony of Yictoria, Australia, des- 

 cribed by Ferdinand Mueller, Ph.D., M.D., 

 &c. Lithographs from the Yictorian 

 Government : Fragmenta Phytograpliijjs 

 Australise, by Ferdinand Mueller, Ph.D., 

 M.D., &c., from the same ; Proceedings of 

 the Literary and Philosophical Society of 

 Liverpool, 1863-64, from the society. Cata- 

 logue of British Plants, including the 

 Flowering Plants, Ferns, and Characeee, to 

 which is appended a List of the Yarieties 

 of British Ferns, printed for the society, 

 and published by Messrs. A. & C. Black ; 

 Botanisk Eeise i valdersog de tilgrecndsende 

 egne, af Axel Blytt, from the Eoyal Uni- 

 versity of Norway ; Les Ajuga Pyramidalis 



