Reports of Societies. 



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Ellaistd-cctm-Greetland Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Aug. 4th, 

 the president in the chair. There was a good collection of plants, named 

 by Mr. C. C. Hanson, amongst which were the following : — Lycopus 

 europcens, Stachijs sylvatica, Silene inflata, Scutellaria galericulata, Stellaria 

 uliginosa, and a Carex. Mr. F. Lumb showed eggs of snipe and willow 

 wren. — W. H. Stott. 



GooLE Scientific Society. — Excursion June 14th, to Bronghton 

 Woods. — These woods are four miles from Appleby station, down the old 

 Roman road called Ermine-street, and lie on the eastern slope of the ridge 

 of oolite which forms the second of the three ranges of the Lincolnshire 

 hills. A quarry of cornbrash containing Rhynchonella spinosa, and other 

 characteristic fossils, was examined near Appleby station ; and in the 

 quarry of inferior oolite named Read's Quarry, near Broughton, many 

 good fossils were found. The flora of the neighbourhood is chiefly 

 composed of dry limestone species, but some notable exceptions were met 

 with during the day in the occurrence of one or two somewhat rare 

 northern and southern species. The lateness of the season made the list 

 of flowering plants less than might have been expected, but 170 species 

 were seen, the most noteworthy being Viola Jiirta, Silene nocUflora, 

 Astragalus hypoglottis, Anemone Pulsatilla, Hippocrepis comosa, Spircea 

 filipendula, Inula Conyza, Lactuca muralis, Campanula Trachelium, 

 Echium vulgare, Ruhus saxatilis, Ophrys muscifera. These woods are 

 especially famous for the abundance of the lily of the valley {Convallaria 

 majalis), which covers the ground for many acres, and generally blooms 

 freely. Twenty-three mosses were seen, also some lichens and fungi. 

 Moths and butterflies were abundant, but collectors were absent, and few 

 captures were made. The nightingale was heard during the walk down 

 Ermine-street, and 30 other birds were noted by Mr. A. Kell of Barnsley, 

 and the Society's recorders, among them being the blackheaded gull (at 

 Frodingham Warren), sand martin, wood warbler, blackcap warbler, 

 gold-crested wren (nest and seven eggs), yellow-hammer, chaflnnch, marsh 

 tit, jay, whinchat, ringdove, &c. — Thomas Birks, Jun., Sec. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Meeting August 8th, Mr. S. L. 

 Mosley, vice-president, in the chair, — The chairman showed a pair of a 

 beautiful variety of Ardia menthastri, taken by himseK at WharncUffe ; 

 also, on behaK of Mr. S. D. Bairstow, the following neuroptera ; — Agrion 

 minium, Calopteryx splendens (three forms), Cordulegaster annulatus, 

 Libellula quadrimaculata, and L. depressa. Mr. G. T. Porritt showed 

 Nephopteryx angustella, bred from larva sent to him from near London ; 

 and the larva of Notodonta chaonia, collected by himself at Edlington 

 Wood, near Doncaster, the previous Monday. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, 

 mosses as follows : — Gymnostomum commutatum, found by Dr. Wood in 

 North Wales, and recently detected as such by Mr. John Whitehead. 

 This is the only European locality. Also Tortula mucronata in fruit, 

 from Mickleham, in Surrey, sent by Dr. Braithwaite. 



