Reports of Societies. 61 



Rainfall for S^ptembr. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Aiuount 

 of 



heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1880. 



1879. 



Fall. 



Htjddeesfield (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Eobson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 4-38 



16 



25-31 



* 23-61 



12 



0-90 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



360 



4-60 



16 



30-27 



34-50 







Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



4-83 



16 



26-60 



26-13 



14& 15 



0-78 



Ingbikchwokth (do.) 



853 



5-27 



15 



32-27 



30-47 



12 



1-03 



"Wentwokth Castle (do.)... 



520 



4-65 



13 



25-74 



25-96 



15 



0-79 



GOOLE ... (J. Haeeison) ... 



25 



4-40 



11 



22-91 



20-00 



15 



1-31 



* This is the average to date for 14 years, 1866-79. 



§l^^oriB of Socielus. 



Bahnsley Natuealists' Society. — At the meeting Oct. 12th (Mr. T. 

 Lister in the chair), several communications, verbal and by letter, were 

 made, chiefly on birds. The following observations of birds have been 

 made : — Sept. 6, three or four kestrels hovering over New Lodge and 

 fields ; 18th. seventeen wild geese flew over Barnsley to Worsborough, 

 and a landrail was also seen ; 19th, starlings heard first time this 

 autumn ; immense flocks, old and young mingled, seen in their favourite 

 haunts. 24th, curlews passing overhead by night : 26th, as many as 

 twenty-one magpies seen by Mr. W. Barrowclough (secretary), over 

 Stainborough woods, also a kestrel. 26th, first hooded crow reported by 

 Mr. E. Hailstone, Walton Hall ; a brace of woodcocks obtained by 

 Mr. H. Garland, Woodhall. 28th, landrail noted. Oct. 2, redwings in 

 flocks ; bramblings seen at Nostell ; grey wagtail reported by Mr. W. 

 Talbot — the last two winter visitors from west and north Yorkshire. The 

 fieldfare is the only migrant from Norway yet unreported. On the 10th, 

 upwards of 100 long-tailed titmice reported by Mr. R. Creighton between 

 Kirby and Hemsworth ; also gulls {L. tridactylus) on the 16th. 18th, 

 five wild ducks, a heron, coots and moorhens observed by Mr. Lister at 

 Walton Hall lake. A locust (one of the two captured at Cockerham, near 

 the town), and a weevil (one of the boring beetles), were exhibited, and 

 papers read from the British Association Meeting by the president, who 

 took part. Mr. G. Bose reported two long-eared bats {Plecotus auritus), 

 I brought out of the New Rocks mine, and one of the same kind was seen 

 it Hockley. — T. Lister. 



HuDDERSFiELD SCIENTIFIC Club. — Octobcr meeting, Mr. S. L. Mosley, 

 Dresident, in the chair. — Mr. C. P. Hobkirk showed Campylopus intro- 

 lexus, recently gathered by himself in Jersey ; also a long series of mossea 



