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The Naturalist. 



■were voted to the local secretary, Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., of Hud- 



dersfield ; also to Mr. Lipscombe for permission to ramble through the 

 woods. Messrs. Thomas Lister of Barnsley, and George Brook, ter., 

 F.L.S., of Huddersfield, were chosen to represent the Union, along with 

 Mr. Hobkirk, at the British Association Meeting at Sheffield. Before 

 taking the reports of Sections the chairman, in a few appropriate and 

 well-chosen words, referred to the loss which the Union had sustained by 

 the removal from Yorkshire of Dr. Parsons, who had accepted a position 

 under the Local Government Board in London. On considering in what 

 manner the great services he has rendered to the Union should be 

 recognised, the suggestions offered were allowed to stand over for further 

 consideration. The reports of Sections were then taken. Mr. William 

 West, Bradford, secretary of the Botanical Section, reported that a fair 

 number of plants had been seen, considering that the botanists had to 

 alternately shelter and botanise under cover )f an umbrella. 189 vascular 

 plants had been observed, the rarest of which were Lathrsea squamaria, 

 Paris quadrif olia, (Enanthe crocata, and Iris Pseud-acorus, from Ludden- 

 den Dene ; Scutellaria minor from Midgeley Moor ; Melica nutans, 

 Crepis paludosa, Corydalis claviculata, Pubus suberectus, Jasione 

 montana, Carex remota, C. pilulifera, Vaccinium Oxycoccos, Polypodium 

 Dryopteris, and P. Phegopteris, from the Hebden valley. About fifty 

 mosses were observed, including Neckera crispa, Fontinalis squmaosa, 

 Atrichum crispum, Dicranella squarrosa, Dicranum fuscescens, D. 

 majus, Bartramia pomiformis, Leptobryum pyriforme, and Hyocomium 

 flagellare. Eleven species of lichens were observed, including Sphsero- 

 phoron coralloides, Cetraria aculeata, and Peltigera canina (fr.) ; and ten 

 hepaticae, including Jimgermannia barbata. Six species of fuDgi were all 

 that were noticed, including Uredo Potentillarum on Alchemilla vulgaris. 

 Prof. A. H. Green, M.A., F.G.S., president of the Geological Section, 

 was present during the day, but was compelled to leave before the 

 meeting. Mr. Spencer, the secretary, read the report. Want of time 

 prevented the giving of further reports, which however would otherwise 

 have been given as follows : — by Mr. W. E. Clarke, Leeds, secretary of 

 the Vertebrate Section ; and by Mr. S. D. Bairstow, secretary of the 

 Entomological Section^ including the following beetles reported by Mr. 

 E. B. Wrigglesworth, of Wakefield : — Telephorus abdominalis, Timarcha 

 coriaria, Otiorhynchus picipes, O. atro-apterus, Phyllobius alneti, P. 

 viridicollis, and Barynotus moereus. — W. D. P. 



[N. B. — We much regret that, owing to the late date in the month when 

 this meeting was held, and consequently the late period at which some 

 of the reports of the Sections reached us, we have been compelled to 

 either curtail or altogether omit them. Some of the local Societies' 

 reports, on account of late arrival, we have also been obliged to treat 

 in the same manner. — Eds. Nat.] 



