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the Salmon Fisheries of Scotland. His early death will be regretted by 

 a large circle of his Natural History friends, to whom his genial good 

 humour had endeared him. 



liamfall fox ^obmhtx. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 



of 



heaviest 

 FaU. 





Days 







Fall. 





sea 

 level. 







1880. 



1879. 





HUDDEKSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



3-24 



15 



34-88 



* 29-75 



13&14 



•60 -60 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Rawson) 



360 



5-99 



17 



42-10 



38-79 







Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



1-89 



11 



35-19 



26-44 



15 17 24 



•31 



InGBIRCH WORTH (do.) 



853 









34-83 







Wentworth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-27 



12 



35-02 



28-82 



24 



•42 



GooLE ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



1-75 



13 



29-64 



22-48 



17 



•58 



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



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Dec. 21st, Mr. T. Lister 

 in the chair. — A few observations were made on birds, the most rare 

 noted being the hoopoe, on Nov. 17th, obtained at Crofton ; only one 

 had been previously recorded, brought some years ago from Womb well 

 Wood. The common buzzard was noted by Mr. Creighton on the same 

 date, also on Dec. 12th. On the 30th, a white, or barn, owl was caught 

 on a low tree, asleep, near Stainborough Park, where these and other 

 birds are protected ; a pair of magpies noted in Mr. T. Ormerod's plant- 

 ations, Brighouse, many others by Mr. A. Drury, Tankersley Rectory, 

 and by another observer about Wortley ; flocks and fieldfares, redwings 

 and missel-thrush there, and about Cudworth. Another young puffin 

 taken near Wortley. The bird-preserver who received both birds, 

 believes it came inland with the one captured Nov. 2nd, and made its 

 way down the Don a day or two after. In Walton Park a flock of twelve 

 wigeons, gold-crests, immense flocks of green linnets, starlings, &c., 

 were noted. The keeper observed a merlin and a rough-legged buzzard 

 about the lake. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — The sixth annual meeting was 

 held on 7th December, when the usual annual report was presented, 

 which gave a resume of the society's proceedings during the year, and 

 showed the society to be in a healthy and prosperous condition. Numerous 

 papers on Natural History have been read, and at alternate meetings 

 special facilities have been given for the exhibition of specimens, when 

 many plants and insects new to the district record list have been laid on 

 the table. After the reading of the report Mr. F. Richmond thanked 



