Reports of Societies. 



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341sT Meeting, July 8th.— Mr. Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc, showed 

 Hymenophyllum unilaterale, Bartramia fontanel, B. ithyphylla,, HooJceria 

 lucens, and Trientalis europcea from Ravensgill, Pateley Bridge. Birds' 

 eggs were exhibited by Mr. Walter Raine. Messrs. Tyers and A. Denny 

 showed a number of lepidoptera taken near Thorner, including Melanthia 

 albicillata, Thanaos Tages, Pamphila sylvanus, &c., and several insects 

 from Meanwood ; Mr. Smethurst, M. albicillata and M. tristata from 

 Wharn cliff ft Wood, and a number of other recent captures ; Mr. Henry 

 Marsh, insects from Grange, including Leucophasia sinapis, Lijccena 

 Salmacis, CcBuonympha Davus, Nem,oria viridata, Venila macnlata, 

 Cidaria corylata, Aspilates strigillaria, &c., also a number taken at Adel, 

 including Eupifhecia lariciata, E. plumheolata, E. pulchellata, and E. 

 mdgata. The Leeds Catalogue of Lepidoptera was then proceeded with 

 as far as the end of the geometers. 



342^0 Meeting, July 15th, the president in the chair. — Mr. E. 

 Thompson exhibited a copy of Baker's "Microscope made easy," dated 

 1742 ; Mr. W. B. Turner, F.C.S., showed polarised objects : — scales of 

 eel, lepidosteus, roach, and perch ; skin of grey mullet, mackerel, dog- 

 fish, sole, loach, trout, and bullhead ; Mr. F. Emsley, a collection of 

 fresh-water algse, desmids, diatoms, &c. , from Wortley, near Leeds, also 

 mounted slides of Daphnia and Hymenophyllum unilaterale ; Mr. James 

 Abbot, living shrimps and marine algae {Ulva and Enteromorpha) in 

 growth. The botanists of the Club held a meeting this evening, at which 

 they decided to form a Botanical Section, of which Mr. James Abbott 

 was elected president. He showed Astragalus hypoghttis, Carex arenaria, 

 Bordeum pratense, and other plants, all from Redcar ; Mr. J. R. Mur- 

 doch, some plants collected among the Breadalbane mountains, Perth- 

 shire, including Hymenophyllum Wilsoni, Cystopteris fragilis, and 

 Polypodium Phegopteris ; Hypnum splendois, H. triguetrum, H. cuspida- 

 tum, H. stellatum, H. uncinatum, Bartramia pomiformis — all in fruit, 

 and B. arcuata ; Cladonia rangiferina, C. Cervicornis, Parm^lia caperata, 

 Sticta pulmonacea, and Lecanora tartarea. — W. D. R. 



YoEKSHiE-E Naturalists' Union. — The fourth meeting for 1879 was 

 held at Hebden Bridge, and was devoted to an examination of the 

 Hebden and Crimsworth vaUeys. The weather was thoroughly unpro- 

 pitious, thus for once falsifying the luck by which the Union is nearly 

 invariably favoured by fine weather. The meetings were held at the 

 White Horse Hotel, Hebden Bridge. There was a very large number of 

 members, comprising over 100 representatives from 17 societies. The 

 chair was occupied by the Rev. W. Fowler, M.A., Liversedge, vice- 

 president. The list of new subscribers, to whom thanks were voted, 

 included Messrs. J. H. Rowntree and F. Bainbridge of Scarborough, 

 James Backhouse of York, Dr. W. Alexander, J. P., of Halifax, and Rev. 

 W. C. Hey of Guisborough. On the motion of Dr. Alexander, thanks 



