Diary.— Meetings of Societies. 



September 1. Wakefield Naturalists' Society. 



4. Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — ^Excursion to Market Weighton. 

 Local Secretary : W. N. Chessman, The Crescent, Selby. 



7. Liversedge Naturalists' Society. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' 

 Field Club. Leeds Naturalists Club, &c. — Lecture on 

 " The G-eneral Anatomy of Insects," by John Stubbins, 

 F.L.S., &c., of HaHfax. 



8. York and District Naturalist Field Club. 



9. Dewsbury Naturalists' Society. 



10. Huddersfield Scientific Club. 



11. Local Naturalists' Association. — Excursion to Hartshead. 

 Local Secretary ; James Rothery, Millbridge, Liversedge. 



14. Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. — ^Entomological and Vertebrate 

 Sections. 



18. North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. — Excursion to 

 Cat-and-Fiddle. Leader : Mr. Kirkby. 



20. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. Manchester Cryptogamic 

 Society. 



21. Leeds Naturalist's Club, fcc. — Eotanical and Microscopical 

 Sections. 



27. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



28. Leeds Naturalist's Club, Sec. — Vertebrate and Entomological 

 Sections. 



OME Bird-skins to sell, (including some rare British ones), the duplicates of 

 a private collector. For a list with prices, apply to Mr. Thomas Hoberts, 

 Castle Meadow, Norwich. 



7RA NSA CTIONS of the YORKSHIRE NA JURA LIS TS' UNION. 



, PART I. FOR 1877, contains the commencement of "The Birds of Yorkshire," 

 y Mr. W. E. Clarke, M.B.O.U. ; 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 

 .^prder, by IVIr. W. Denison Roebuck; a paj)er on " Yorkshire Macro-lepidoi)tera 

 in 1877," by Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. ; one on "Yorkshire Micro-lepidoptera 

 -jinl877," by Mr. Wm. Brest ; papers by Mr. S. L. Mosley, on "Yorkshire Diptera," 

 'and on the Yorkshire species of Hemiptera of the Family Psyllidce ; and a 

 report on Yorkshire Botany in 1877, by Dr. H. F. Parsons, F.G.S. 



PARTS II. AND III. FOR i6T<9 contain the continuations of Mr. Clarke's 

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

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

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

 Riding" papers on Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1878, by Mr. Porritt, F.L.S. ; on 

 Yxtrkshire Ichnenmonidre, by Mr. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S. ; and on Yorkshire 

 Hymenoptera, observed in 1878, by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck. 



PART IV. FOR 1S79, in preparation.— Amongst papers in preparation for 

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

 G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., and AY. Prest. 



The Transactions are supplied ' to subscribers of 5/- and upwards annupJlY 

 to the funds of the Union. Intending subscribei's are invited to send their name^ 

 to either of the Secretaries, 



Geo. Brook, ter, F.L.S., Fernbrook, 



^Y. Denison Roebuck, Sunny Bank, 

 Leeds, 



