Reports of Societies. 



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llainfall for ^0fa^mba\ 





Height 



of 

 gauge 



Rain- 

 faU. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



heaviest 

 FalL 





above 



Days 







Fall. 





level. 







1878. 



1877. 





HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



214 



11 



30 '69 



* 29-99 



9 



0-36 



Wakefield ... (F. Hill) 



120 



t 













Leeds ... (H. Crowther) ... 



183 



510 



21 







12 



2-00 § 



Halifax...(F. G. S. Rawson) 



360 



3 '65 



13 



42-73 



56-69 







Bradford... (J. A. Douglas, 

 [F.M.S. 



415 



t 













Barnsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



2-30 



16 



24-47 



32-04 



24 



0-40 





853 



3-02 



19 



36-67 



46-51 



9 



0-70 



Wentworth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-81 



14 



2611 



37-12 



15 



0-67 



Goole ... (H. F. Parsons) ... 



25 



2-64 



20 



22-49 



24-70 



11 



0-56 § 



* This is the average to date for 12 years, 1866-77. t No Returns. 

 § This fell as snow. 



Baknsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Dec. 11th.— Mr. E. R.. 

 Kell, C.E., continued his series of papers on The Eggs of British Birds," 

 with plates and brief descriptions of the birds and their habits. That 

 useful family for destroying rats, mice, and other vermin, the owls, was 

 graphically described. The president (Mr. T. Lister), made a few obser- 

 vations of birds which, in-fekis extraordinary season, with a temperature on 

 a succession of nights ranging from 6 to 20 degrees below freezing point, 

 have afforded an unusual treat to field naturalists. On the 12th Mr. W. 

 Talbot noted the merganser, scaup-duck, pochard, immense flocks of 

 mallards, five snipe, many golden plovers ; three merlins on the 25th ; 

 white-fronted goose, 28th ; on the 30th November as many as eight king- 

 fishers, a great spotted woodpecker, and five male sparrow hawks. Mr. 

 J. Whitehead saw a wheatear at Mexborough so late as Nov. 17th ; my- 

 self and Mr. H. Parker have noted many wild ducks at Stainborough, &c. 

 Five herons flew north over Barnsley Dec. 8th. It is a hard time for the 

 small birds — the thrush, blackbird, storm-cock, fieldfare, and redwing 

 come about the houses for waste food, and even pied wagtails, titmice, 

 and chaffinches come to share with the sparrows and robins. The latter 

 sang Dec. 12th. — T. Lister. 



Boston Microscopical Society and Literary and Scientific Insti- 

 tution.— The above society has been formed by Messrs. F. W. Morris 

 and B. T. Storr, under the presidency of the Rev. G, E. Pattenden, 



