Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting, May 11th, the president, 

 Mr. T. Lister, in the chair. — Arrangements were made for the Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union excursion on June 12th to Barnsley, and the fine 

 woods and parks surrounding it. The dates of spring migrants are 

 nearly filled up, excepting the pied flycatcher. Of all we have noted, 

 most are remarkably early, after an unusually severe season. The 

 additional records are : — house-martin, April 11, goat-sucker, April 19, 

 redstart, April 18, grasshopper-warbler, April 18, wliitethroat, April 23, 

 nightingale, April 26, sedge-warbler, April 25, lesser whitetliroat, April 

 29, garden-warbler, April 30, wood-warbler, April 29, black-cap, May 1, 

 sandpiper. May 1, swift. May 14. Of insects observed since last meeting, 

 are, Eupethecia pusillata, Odonoptera bidentata. A new locality was 

 given by the botanists for Paris qnadrifolia, more abundant in the lime- 

 stone than in the coal formation. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 6th, the president in 

 the chair, — A paper on ^' Additions to the list of local lepidoptera" was 

 contributed by Mr. Carter. The paper showed that during the past year 

 nineteen species of insects, not previously recorded, had been added to 

 the list. 



Meeting, March 2nd, Mr. West, vice-president, in the chair, — Mr. 

 FauU read an interesting paper on " Scale Mosses," which he illustrated 

 by a number of excellent coloured diagrams. Mr. Wardman exhibited 

 G. vaccina, H. progemaria, P. pilosaria, also a beautiful dark variety of 

 the latter, all from this district. Mr. West showed some of his recent 

 collectings, including Thuidium ahietinum, from Kirk Deighton ; and the 

 following plants from Malham, Fontinalis gracilis, Bryum roseum, Brachy- 

 thecium rivulare, Ulota intermedia, Gym.nostomum rupestre, Mnium 

 subglohosum, Hylocomium squarrosum (fr.), Eurhynchium piliferum, 

 Hypnum falcatum var. virescens, Polytrichum strictum, Zygodon 

 viridissima, Bartramia calcarea, Barhula recurvifolia Schimp., Cylindro- 

 thecium concinnum, Funaria calcarea (fr,), Trichostomum mutahile, Mado- 

 theca platyphylla, Chiloscyphus p)olyantlius, Endocarpon miniatum, Graphis 

 scripta, Solorina saccata, Zonotrichia calcarea, and Calothrix rairabilis. 



Meeting, March 16th, Mr. West, vice-president, in the chair, — A 

 number of botanical and entomological specimens were exhibited, among 

 the latter being a rare variety of H. leucophearia from Shipley Glen, shown 

 by Mr. Hodgson. Mr. West gave a short lecture on Lichens," which 

 was illustrated by a number of specimens. 



Meeting, April 6th, the president in the chair. — Mr. Spencer showed 

 a specimen of White's thrush, Tnrdus Whitei, shot in Australia. Mr. 

 Hodgson showed C. fiavicornis, an almost black P. pilosaria, A. hetularia 



