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Bombus Harrisellus^ taken by Mr. J. W. Shaw of Wakefield. In other 

 groups were noticed the ''cleg" (Hsematopota pluvialis), the scorpion 

 fly (Panorpa communis), &c. Mr. G. Brook, ter. (Huddersfield) had 

 taken several species of Collembola. For the Botanical Section Dr. 

 Parsons reported : The localities explored were Hambleton, Bishop's 

 Wood, Morton Bog, Monk Fryston, Biggin, &c. The nature of the soil 

 varied in these several places between sand, clay, limestone, and peat, 

 and the flora represented corresponding variations. Few special rarities 

 were found, the flora being the ordinary one of a lowland district ; never- 

 theless, owing to the comparative richness in flowering plants of such 

 regions, the number of species observed was fully as great as at any 

 previous meeting. Three hundred kinds were noted, the following being 

 the more noteworthy : — Clematis Vitalba (denizen), Monk Fryston ; 

 Genista anglica, Morton Bog ; Malva moschata, Biggin ; Hubus incurvatus, 

 Morton Bog ; R. hystrix, P. carpinifolius, and R. corylifolius, Hamble- 

 ton ; Erigeron acris, Micklefield ; Leontodon hirtus. Biggin ; Picris 

 hieracioides. Biggin and Micklefield ; Gentiana Pneumonanthe, Morton 

 Bog : Linaria minor. Monk Fryston, Chenopodium rubrum, Hambleton ; 

 Zannichellia pedicellata, Monk Fryston (not given for M. W. Yorks. in 

 Top. Bot. ) ; Potamogeton densus, and Sagittaria sagittifolia, Selby Dam ; 

 Brachypodium pinnatum, Hambleton (by roadside, rare ofi" limestone) ; 

 and Sedum Telephium (denizen), Hambleton. About 23 mosses and a few 

 other cryptogams were noticed, mostly the very common lowland species. 

 The fungi included Polyporus hispidus and Boestelia lacerata. On 

 behalf of the Geological Section Dr. Parsons stated that Hambleton stood 

 on the new red sandstane, which rock was well shown in a section at 

 Hambleton Haugh as a soft red sandstone strongly bedded, without 

 fossils. On the southern slope of Hambleton Haugh was a gravel mainly 

 composed of rounded fragments of carboniferous sandstone and grit ; on 

 the northern slope of Brayton Barf a few large boulders were scattered 

 about, one of which appeared to be basalt. Of the alluvial strata which 

 surrounded this island of trias and covered the greater part of the area of 

 the district, the most important member was a thick bed of laminated 

 clay, in some places on the surface, in others capped with a thin layer of 

 sand or warp. At Monk Fryston, three miles to the west, the magnesian 

 limestone came to the surface. In a quarry by the railway a quarter of a 

 mile south of Milford Junction, a few fossils had been seen on the 

 weathered surface of the beds, mostly a small species of Axinus, and 

 some spines, probably 05" some moUuscan shell. In the same c^uarry was 

 a fault, recently exposed in a new road cutting, and not marked in the 

 Geological Survey map : the magnesian limestone being elevated into 

 juxtaposition with the new red sandstone. Near some calcareous springs 

 at Monk Fryston was a patch of boggy ground full of semi-fossil shells of 

 existing species. —In Vertebrate Zoology the repr>rt was given by Mr. E. 

 Hunter, F.C.S., president of the section, and Mr. P. Richardson, both 

 of Goole. — Wm. Denison Roebuck, Sec. 



