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taken to fill in the contour-lines, Prof. Green and Mr. H. H. Howell 

 (of the Geological Survey) assisting with the geological portion. The 

 number of subscribers was re^Dorted as having increased from 104 to 164- 

 It was pointed out that the minimum subscription was fixed as low as 

 2s. 6d. , in order to ensure a wide circulation for the Transactions, and to 

 place them within reach of every purse. The balance-sheet showed an 

 income of £68 14s. 9d., and an expenditure of £47 9s. lid. The amount 

 of cash available for the publication of the reports for 1878 was £14, in 

 addition to which £20 was owing for subscriptions. The reports and 

 balance-sheet having been adopted, the excursions were fixed as follows : 

 Easter Monday, April 14th, Ingleton ; May 10th, Harrogate ; Whit 

 Monday, J une 2nd, York for Askham Bog ; Saturday, J uly 1 9th, Heb- 

 den Bridge ; Monday, Aug. 4th, Doncaster ; Saturday, Sept. 6th, Selby 

 for Biccall Common. The annual meeting to be held at Huddersfield on 

 the I7th of January, 1880. All the" officers were re-elected, viz. , Mr. H. 

 Clifton Sorby, F.R.S., &c., Sheffield, president ; Messrs. Geo. Brook, 

 ter., F.L.S., Huddersfield, and Wm. Denison Roebuck, Leeds, secre- 

 taries ; and Messrs. A. Crebbin of Bradford, and C. W. Richardson of 

 Wakefield, auditors. The sections reported their officers as follows : — 

 Vertebrate Section ; Mr. T. Lister, Barnsley, president, and Mr. W. E. 

 Clarke, Leeds, secretary. Conchological Section : Mr. John Conacher, 

 Huddersfield, president, and Mr. Joseph Wilcock, Wakefield, secretary. 

 Entomological Section : Mr. Wm. Brest of York, president, and Mr. S. 

 D. Bairstow, of Huddersfield, secretary. (It was decided to publish a 

 list of the lepidoptera of the county, as known up to the present time, 

 which Messrs. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., of Huddersfield, and Wm. Brest of 

 York, were appointed to compile.) Botanical Section : Rev. Wm. Fowler, 

 M.A., Liversedge, president : Dr. H. Fraukhn Parsons, F.G.S., Goole, 

 and Mr. William West, Bradford, secretaries. Geological Section : Prof. 

 A. H. Green, M.A., F.G.S., Leeds, president, and Mr. James Spencer of 

 Halifax, secretary. On the motion of the president, seconded by Mr. 

 W. E. Clarke, a vote of thanks to the committee of the Leeds Mechanics' 

 Institute for the use of their building, at a merely nominal charge, for the 

 holding of an exhibition, was carried unanimously. The meeting then 

 adjourned to the Albert Hall, where the president delivered the annual 

 address, which was of unusual value and very great interest. The latter 

 portion gave an account of Mr. Sorby's own researches into the colouring 

 matters of animals and plants — a subject which is peculiarly his own. A 

 vote of thanks was accorded to Mr. Sorby for his address, and his services 

 in the chair, on the motion of Mr. Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, seconded 

 by Mr. E. W. Chatwdn. In connection with this annual meeting, a very 

 extensive exhibition of natural history specimens and scientific apparatus 

 was organised and held within the Mechanics' Institute from the 10th to 

 the 17th January. This exhibition is the subject of a series of special 

 articles, which will appear in future numbers of the Naturalist. — Wm. 

 Denison Roebuck, Sec. 



