Beports of Societies. 123 





Height 

 of 



gHUsre 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Eain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Dai'is. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 ot 



neaviest 

 FaU. 







1881. 



1880. 



Fall. 



HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) 

 [o . >v . noDson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



0-28 



7 



0-28 



* 2-89 



26 



•11 



xlALIFAX. ..(r, <jr. o. Ixawsoilj 



OOU 



U CO 



1 A 

 iU 



0-35 



0-49 







Wakefield (E. B. "Wriggles- 

 worth) 



100 



0 34 



9 







26&29 



•08 



Stanley (do.) 



250 



0-32 



11 







26 



•09 



Barxsley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



0-38 



11 



0-38 



1-08 



26 



•09 





853 



0-43 



11 



0-43 



119 



25 



•09 



Wektworth Castle (do.)... 



520 



0-37 



8 



0-37 



1-39 



12 



•10 



Goole ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



0-86 



11 



0-86 



0-20 



20 



•29 



* This is the average to date for 15 years, 1866-80. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 1st, Mr. J. Hutchinson 

 (vice-president) in the chair. — Mr, Rowland Gascoigne, FG.S., read an 

 interesting paper on the continuous coal beds from Leeds by Barnsley to 

 Nottingham. 



Meeting, Feb. 15th, Mr. T. Kell, president in the chair.— Mr. C. 

 Bellamy, hon- sec, read a paper on the " Development Theory." Mr. 

 W. E. Brady, read the entomological report for last season, an extract 

 from which will be given in the transactions to be published quarterly. 



Bird Notes, Jan. and Feb. — Jan 16th, bullfinches, seen by me near 

 Barnsley, reported in abundance in gardens and hedges around. Black- 

 birds and thrushes returning in small numbers, both reported in song at 

 rare intervals. The black-headed bunting, ytllow-hammer and redpolls 

 observed. 27th. — A kingfisher seen flying over the canal to the Dearne, 

 another in Cudworth Brook, and one in Barnsley. 28th. — Heard starlings 

 sing in chorus, on garden trees close to the town, reported in great 

 numbers as well as fieldfares and red-wings, about Cudworth, Walton, 

 and other villages ; also great flocks of ring-doves, rooks, and daws. 

 Feb. 1st. — Saw at a bird-stufier's in the town, a kingflsher which had 

 been frozen to a bough on the Dearne, lived three days ; a pied black- 

 bird found starved near Stainlorough, lived a day or two ; a fieldfare 

 also starved ; a golden plover, and piebald pheasant ; he had also a 

 sparrow-hawk and a short and long-eared owl, several bramblings, and 



