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The Naturalist. 



deep yellow alluvial sand. Holme Churcli stands on the summit of an 

 isolated hill 150 feet high, which is composed of the new red, or Keuper 

 marls, capped with a bed of gravel which consists entirely of rolled frag- 

 ments of carboniferous sandstone and grit, local rocks being absent. At 

 the base of the hill, on a low ridge stretching away eastwards, is a pit in 

 which the gravel, unlike that on the summit of the hill, is largely made 

 up of the indin-ated green marls of the Keuper. It is strongly current- 

 bedded, the beds dipping at a high angle to the south. East of Holme, 

 near the Market Weighton canal, are some extensive woods of Scotch fir 

 (native ?) growing on a heathy surface of wet alluvial sand. In these woods 

 mosses and lichens grow in a luxuriance rarely attained, as mentioned in 

 a note in the Naturalist for June, 1878. The best finds of the day were 

 Hypnum ScJireberi (in fruit), and Cetraria Islandica, usually an arctic and 

 alpine lichen, but found by Dr. Lees in Lincolnshire, in situations 

 similar to the present {Naturalist, Feb., 1878). The timber in Holme 

 Park is very fine, and the trunks are draped with mosses and lichens in a 

 way which we do not see in the West Riding. The flora of Holme, 

 though yielding no veiy great rarities, is rich in species, owing to the 

 variety of soil and situation. Upwards of 220 flowering plants were 

 observed during the day, including Sisymbrium Sophia, Salvia Verbenaca, 

 lAnaria minor, and Viburnum Lantana (in plantations). There are in 

 the neighbourhood of Holme, some remains of ancient ironworks and of 

 a Roman pottery, from which fragments of earthenware, and of old slag, 

 were obtained by some of the party. — H. Feanklin Parsons, Sec. 



HuDDERsriELD SCIENTIFIC Club. -^Meeting 12th July, Mr. G. T. 

 Porritt, president, in the chair. — Mr. C. P. Hobkirk exhibited Uromyces 

 intnisa on Alchemilla vulgaris, from Saddleworth district ; the president 

 Coleophora vibricilla and Pteraphorus rhododactylus, found by himself at 

 Chattenden, in Kent, in June ; Mr. S. L. Mosley, a fine mottled 

 variety of Satyrus J anira and S. hyperanthus, in which the spots on the 

 upper side of the wings were more than usually distinct, both bred from 

 Hartlepool. Mr. Conacher announced that on a more careful examina- 

 tion of the shells exhibited at the previous meeting as Limax tenellus, he 

 found that some of the specimens given under the above name were really 

 Arion fiavus, a still rarer species, and that the locality was Ayrshire, and 

 not Forfarshire, as recorded. Mr. Geo. Brook ter. showed under the 

 microscope living specimens of Cyclops quadricornis and young, Alcyonella 

 fumjosa, and a large colony of Vorticellce, also the following plants from 

 Waterville, County Kerry :—Babenaria viridis, Comarmn palustre, Erio- 

 phorvm vaginatwm, Cotyledon umbilicus, &c. Mr. Herbert Goss, F.L.S., 

 &c., presented to the Club a copy of his Insect Fauna of the Tertiary 

 Period," for which a unanimous vote of thanks was passed. Rev. G. C. B. 

 Madden read a most interesting and practical paper on Bees, and Bee- 

 keeping," illustrated with various examples of apparatus, and detailed 

 the habits of the msects as observed by himself, and his own experience 



