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Chenopodium ruhrum. Methley. 



C. Bonus-Henricus. Ouzlewell Green, Lee Moor. 



Humulus Lu'pulus. Lofthouse gate, Rothwell Haigh. 



Epipactis latifolla. Ouzlewell Green. 



Hdbenaria viridis. Lofthouse. 



GalanthuB nivalis. Small wood near Thorp. 



Polypodium Dryopteris. Lofthouse, a very small bed. 



Blechnum spicant. Ardsley and Thorp woods. 



Opliioglossum vulgatum. Lofthouse, Abundant in pastures at Ouzlewell 

 Green, growing in beds like lettuce. The cows crop it off along with 

 the grass. The taste of the leaf is not unpleasant. 



Lofthouse, Wakefield. 



Richmond and North Riding Naturalists^ 

 Field Club — The monthly meeting of this 

 society was held on Tuesday, October 11th, 

 the President, Mr. Wood, F.G.S., in the 

 chair. The President exhibited a beautiful 

 series of trilohites from the Upper Silurian 

 rocks of Dudley. The state of preservation 

 of these remains was most wonderful, the 

 eyes of some species being quite perfect, 

 and as the eye is exactly the same as that 

 of the allied crustaceans that inhabit the 

 same zone in our present seas, it proves 

 that the light on oq;:- globe at the time of 

 this long past period was the same as now. 

 The President also exhibited a fine series of 

 fish teeth from the Carboniferous Lime- 

 stone quarries at the Gallow Fields, Rich- 

 mond ; the cast of an egg, and a large and 

 carefully made drawing of the extinct 

 monster the wingless bird of ITew Zealand 

 ^pyornis maximus and by the side of the 

 egg was placed one of the recent ostrich ; 

 the pigmy proportion of our largest bird's 



egg showing as about a twelfth of the bulk 

 of this mighty dweller in the forests of a 

 former world. This bird reached the height 

 of upwards of twelve feet. A boulder, 

 with ice scratches, enabled the President to 

 again explain the peculiar features of 

 our land during the glacial period. A 

 set of flint and stone implements from the 

 drift were laid on the table, together with 

 a fine set of plans of the Newton Cap col- 

 liery, which the members of the club, 

 through the kindness of their worthy Pre- 

 sident, lately visited. The above are for 

 the present in the museum, and are well 

 worthy of attention. The Secretary exhi- 

 bited a specimen of the northern stone 

 crab, Cancer horridus, taken at Redcar in 

 March last ; also a half groat of Henry 

 YII, found near the Mill Lane. Mr. W. 

 S, Robinson exhibited a large gold coin of 

 James I, together with a groat of Henry 

 YIII. Mr. R. Smith, of Richmond, was 

 elected a member of the club, after which 

 the proceedings terminated. The meeting 

 then adjourned to the second Tuesday in 

 November.— James Aspdin, Hon. Sec. 



