Diary.— Meetings of Societies. 



August 2. Bfink Holiday. Yorkr-hire Xaturalists' Union.— Excursion to 

 Marsden, near Hudderstield, the ^Moorlands of Soutli West 

 Yorkshire. Tea at Blake Lee. Marsden. at 4-30 p.m. Sections 

 at o-3a p.m. ; General Meeting at 6-15 p^. Leeds 

 Naturalists' Club, &c. A^ertehrate and Entomological Sections. 

 Liversedge Naturalists' Society. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' 

 Society. Bamsley Naturalists' Society.: Wakefield Natu- 

 ralists' Society, 

 „ 7. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. 



.. 10. Leeds Naturalists' Club, ^tc*— Botanical and Microscopical 

 Sections. 



.. 11. York and District Field Club. 

 .. 12. Dewsburv Naturalists' Society. 

 .. 13. Huddersfield Scientific Club.* 



14. Local Naturalists' Association. — Excursion to Hunger Hills, 



Thornhill Edge. Meeting at Working Men's Club, Dewsbury, 



at 6 p.m. 



19. Manchester Cryptogamic Society. 



., 17. Leeds Naturalist Club, &c. Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 



20. North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club.— Excursion to Alton 



and Oakamoor. Leader — Mr. C. L. Wragge. 

 .. 23. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. 



.. 24. Leeds Naturalist's Club, &c.— Vertebrate and Entomological 

 Sections. Barnsley Natiu'alist's Society. — Excursion to Lang- 

 sttt Moors. 



.. 30. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 

 .. 31 . Leeds Naturalist's Club, (Sec. — Botanical and Microscopical Sections. 

 Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 



^TTILL any Botanist meeting with Potamogetons or Ckaras during the ensuing 

 \ V season kindly send me fresh or dried specimens, especially if in fruit ? 

 I shall be very pleased to send rare Southern, South-eastern, or Eastern flowering 

 plants in exchange, either living or dried. 



(F. crkpu^, densus, hnd XJobfffonifoUns not wanted). — A. B., 107, High Street, 

 Croyden, Surrey. 



TRANSACTIONS of theYORKSHI RE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



PART I. FOR 1S77, contains the commencement of " The Birds of 

 Yorkshire," by Mr. "\V. E. Clarke ; of an " Annotated List of the Land and Fresh- 

 water Mollusca of Yorkshire," by Messrs. AVm. Nelson and J. W. Taylor ; a 

 complete list of Yorkshire Hymenoptera, with references to literature of that 

 order, by Mr. AV. Denison Eoebuck ; a paper on " Yorkshire Macro-lepidoptera 

 in 1877," by I\tr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. : one on "Yorkshire Micro-lepidoptera 

 in 1877," by"^Mr. Wm. Prest : papers by Mr. S. L. Mosley. on " Yorksliire Diptera," 

 and on the Yorkshire species of Hemiptera of the Family Psi/Uidaj ; and a 

 report on Yorkshire Botany in 1877. 



PARTS II. AND III. FOR 1S78 contain the continuations of IMi'. Clarke's 

 Birds of Yorkshu-e, and of Messrs. Nelson and Taylor's Land and Fresh-water 

 Mollusca of A'orkshire ; an elaborate report on Yorkshire Botany in 1878, by 

 Dr. Parsons ; the commencement of Dr. Parsons' " Moss-Flora of the East- 

 Elding ■' ; papers on Yorkshii'e Lepidoptera in 1878, by ^Ir. Porritt, F.L.S. ; on 

 Yorkshire Irhno'monida-, by S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S. ; and on Yorkshire 

 Hymenoptera, observed in 1878, by Mr. VT. Denison Eoebuck. 



PART IV. FOR 1879, in preparation.^ — Amongst papers in preparation fo^' 

 future parts is a Catologue of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, to be written by Messrs. 

 G. T. Ponitt, F.L.S., and W. Prest. 



The Traxsactioxs are supplied to subscribers of 5/- and upwards, annually 

 to the funds of tlie Lnion. Intending subscribers are invited to send their names 

 to either of the Secretaries. 



Geo. Beook, ter, F.L.S., Fernbrook, \ 



Edgerton, Huddersfield, 1.^^^^, 

 ' W. Denison Eoebuck, Sunny Bank, 1 ' 



Leeds. ' 



