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and sedge-warbler. Thirty-six residents, comprising most of the thrush 

 bunting, and linnet families known to Yorkshire (except the winter 

 visitors), were noted, and comprised the missel and song thrush, black- 

 bird, green and grey linnet, lesser redpoll, magpie, daw, ringdove, 

 stockdove, yellow, blackheaded and corn buntings, great tit, marsh tit, 

 blue tit, chaffinch, bullfinch, starling, meadow pipit, pied wagtail, wren, 

 great-spotted woodpecker, kingfisher, tree sparrow, skylark, lapwing, 

 moorhen, coot, Canadian goose, &c. The Conchological Section was not 

 represented, though the shells collected by other members included 

 unusually fine examples of Succinea putris taken at Storr Mill. Messrs. 

 G. T. Porritt and John Harrison reported, for Entomological Section, 

 that the lepidopterists had done tolerably well, Messrs. W. Brady, C. W. 

 Richardson, W. Berry, and others having taken about 24 species. Nearly 

 all the collecting was done in New Park Spring Woods, and Melanippe 

 hastata was found there in abundance, with Asthena sylvata, Melanthia 

 albicillata, a very dark form of Cidaria russata, Tephrosia biundularia, 

 &c., &c. Mr. John Harrison reported that M. hastata and A. sylvata 

 were also both very common at Edlington Wood, near Selby, this year. 

 Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., reported, for the Botanical Section, that 159 

 vascular plants had been seen, the following being the best : — Ranunculus 

 Lenormandi, Spergularia rubra, Rosa moUisima, R. arvensis. Campanula 

 latifolia, Lamium Galeobdolon, Alopecurus agrestis, and Orchis Morio ; 

 fifteen mosses, including Aulacomnion androgynum and Brachythecium 

 plumosum ; six hepaticae, amongst them being Chiloscyphus polyanthus, 

 Jungermannia bicuspidata, and Calypogeia trichomanes ; four species of 

 fungi — Stereum hirsutum, Hypholoma fascicularis, Stropharia semi- 

 orbicularis, and Sphseria acuta ; three common lichens, and 18 algae, 

 including Gomphonema constrictum, Meridion circulare, Melosira 

 varians, (Edogonium vesicatum, and Mougeottia genuflexa. No botanist 

 accompanied the Dearne Valley party, hence possibly the paucity of 

 plants. Mr. Jas. Spencer reported for the Geological Section as follows : 

 Bamsley is situated on the middle coal-measures, and yields the usual 

 coal-measure fossils — Stigmaria, Sigillaria, Lepipodendra, Calamites, 

 Sternbergia, Dadoxylon, Asterophyllites, Pecopteris, Neuropteris, &c., 

 together with Anthracosia, Spirorbis, and fish-scales and teeth. The 

 museum of the Barnsley Naturalists' Society contains a good series of the 

 above genera ; also a splendid specimen of the rare fossil Limulus, or 

 king-crab, and a very fine specimen of the sandstone cast of a Lepido- 

 dendron, which is about 5ft. in length, dividing into two branches about 

 the middle. The main stem is about 1ft., and the branches about 6in. 

 in diameter. It is one of the forms commonly called Kjiorria taxina, 

 but Prof. Williamson (our president) has shown that Knorria taxina is 

 only one of the difi"erent states of preservation in which the Lepidodendron 

 occurs, being a Lepidodendron divested of its outer cortical layer. 



B. BROWN, PRINTEE, MARKET PLACE CORNER, HUDDERSFIELD. 



