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Street, was presided over by the Rev. Wm. Fowler, M.A., of Liversedge. 

 Fifteen Societies were represented. The list of new subscribers included 

 Messrs. S. Mitchell, of Clitheroe, T. J. Foggitt, of Thirsk, John Emmett, 

 of Boston Spa, Charles Foster and H. IngTam, of Leeds. Votes of thanks 

 were passed — to JMr. Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, of Harrogate, the local 

 secretary; to Mr. John Yorke, of Pateley, for permission to visit his 

 grounds at Ravensgill and Guyscliffe ; to Capt. Williams, for accompanying 

 a party down the lead mines at Greenhow Hill ; and to Mr. Thomas 

 Thorpe, of Pateley, for his willing co-operation in general. The reports 

 of sections being called for, on behalf of the Conchological Section, Mr. 

 John Emmett reported that only two shells had been found. Messrs. 

 S. D. Bairstow and G. T. Porritt reported on behaK of the Entomo- 

 logical Section : — In consequence of the cold frosty weather no lepidoptera 

 had been noticed, and only a few species of coleoptera, hymenoptera, 

 and neuroptera. In the Botanical Section Dr. Parsons reported as 

 follows ; — The localities explored during the day were Harrogate, Knares- 

 "borough, Pateley Bridge, Pavensgill, Greenhow, Markington, Brimham 

 Rocks, &c. Owing to the extreme backwardness of the season, compara- 

 tively few flowering plants were seen. The Yasculares observed were 

 142, including Helleborus viridis (apparently native near Knaresborough,) 

 Stellaria nemorum, Pateley Bridge, Alsine verna and Saxifraga hyp- 

 noides, Greenhow ; Chrysosplenium alternifolium and Lactua muralis, 

 Pateley Bridge ; Vaccinium Yitis-Idasa and Y. oxycoccos, Brimham 

 rocks, Polypodium Dryopteris, P. Phegopteris, Hymenophylluni 

 unilaterale, and Lycopodium Selago, Pateley Bridge. Mosses, 80, 

 including Weissia cirrhata, Dicranum majus (fr.) Eucladium verticil- 

 latum (fr.), Racomitrium four species, Ulota intermedia (fr.), Bartramia 

 pomiformis, Physcomitrium pj-riforme, Bryum pallens (fr.), Mnium 

 serratum and M. stellare, Hookeria lucens (fr.), Anomodon viticulosus, 

 Plagiothecium undulatum (fr.), P. elegans (? P. Borrerianum), Hypnum 

 uncinatum (young fr.), H. steUare, Hylocomium brevirostre, and H. 

 loreum. The Hepaticse, 12, included Scapania undulata (fr.) and S. 

 nemorosa : Plagiochila asplenioides, Jungermannia albicans (fr.), J. in- 

 flata, and J. barbata ; Cal}'pogeia Trichomanes, and Lepidozia reptans. 

 The Lichens, 20, were mostly the ordinary species, with the exception of 

 Lecidea geographica on gritstone at Markington — a somewhat unusual 

 habitat. Among Algae Lemania fluviatilis, and among Fungi Agaricus 

 umbelliferus, Rhytisina acerinum, and Stegia ilicis were observed. A 

 list of fresh-water alg^ observed in the neighbourhood of Markington by 

 the Rev. J. S. Tute, was handed in to the Section. It contained 50 

 species. IMr. J. Spencer, of Halifax, gave the report of the Geological 

 Section, which had not been very successful in a Palseontological point 

 of view, but otherwise the geology of the district was deeply interesting. 

 They had gone over the four geological formations, viz., — the mountain 

 limestone, the lead mines of Pateley Bridge, the permian, mill-stone 

 grit, and Yoredale rocks of the neighbourhood of Harrogate, Knaresbro', 



