Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting October Ist. — The first 

 lecture of the series proposed to be given monthly was delivered by the 

 presidejit, Mr. T. Lister, on Spring Migrants." The observations of 

 birds up to the present date not yet reported in the Naturalist are : latest 

 record made to us of departing migrants are, Sept. 7, swift and young 

 whinchat, seen by Dr. Payne ; 15th, sand martin ; 24th, willow wren 

 noted, but IMr. Talbot reported this and sand-martin Oct. 7th ; Oct. 2nd, 

 the wheatear, seen by G. Scholey : 16th, swallows and martins yet seen 

 at Monk Bretton Abbey ; some pairs have had two or three broods. I 

 . heard the redstart sing so late as Sept. 13, a later date than I have known. 

 Of rarer birds seen were crossbills at Darfield, Sept. 10th ; a flock of 25 

 wild geese at Stainborough Park, on the 15th Sept. and some days after- 

 wards ; also Canada geese on the pools. Carrion crows, scarce here, 

 noted on the 21st and 28th ; 15 herons seen by Dr. Payne at Colwick, 

 and several by Mr. C. Wemyss, Cannon Hall Park. Oct. 3, fifty gulls 

 were seen flying to south-west ; 11th, one tern seen at Smithies Water 

 Works. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Oct. 1st, Mr. lUingworth 

 in the chair. — Several members gave descriptive accounts of their recent 

 natural history rambles. Mr. Carter showed H. protea and A. aprilma 

 from Hawksworth, also D. ccEruleocepliala from Goole ; he also shewed, 

 on behalf of IMr. Butterfield, N. Dahlii from Cottingley, and A. agatliina 

 from Harden Moor- — both new to the district record list ; Mr. West 

 Gnaplialium sylvaticum, Folypodium Bryopteris, and P. piliegopteris from 

 between Baildon and Meuston, some fronds of P. pliegopteHs measuring 

 24 inches with the stipes. 



Meeting, Oct. 15th, Mr. lUingworth in the chair. — Mr. Spence read a 

 paper on the spiracles of insects, profusely illustrated by microscopical 

 preparations diagrams and the blackboard. Mr. Carter shewed, .on behalf 

 of Messrs. E, P. P. and J. A. Butterfield, Orthosia lota and macilenta — 

 both new to the district record list ; Mr. Hop wood, Agrotis suffusa from 

 the Bradford district. — Wm. West, Sec, 



C-looLE Scientific Society. — The last excursion of the present year 

 was made Sept. 20th, to Haxey, in the Isle of Axholme. The main body 

 of the party left Goole by the 12-52 train, arriving at half-past two at 

 Haxey station, where they were met by the Pev. W. Fowler, who had 

 previously been over the ground about Laughton, Ferry Flash and 

 Owston, and by some other members who had gone by an earlier train to 

 Stainforth, and walked across Hatfield Moor and by Wroot to Haxey. 

 The party then walked to Haxey village, and thence to Skier's Flash and 

 " the tm-fery," a strip of unreclaimed wet, sandy, and peaty ground where 

 many interesting plants occur. Haxey itself, a large straggling village, is 

 situate on a low hill, standing out of the fenny plain like an island out of 



