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correct in stating that the majority of the members are of the artisan 

 class. * * * Those amongst Britishers " who know the tastes 

 of some of the better class amongst our artisans in the great industrial 

 centres (of which Yorkshire is one) will be little surprised at finding 

 Naturalists so abundant among them ; to foreigners the fact must be a 

 matter for some little astonishment. It was a happy idea to unite these 

 Societies under a central governing body, and this latter, if wise, should 

 use its position for educational purposes on broad principles, by impressing 

 upon the members the necessity of recognising the fact that Yorkshire is 

 not Britain, and that Britain is only an island in the northern seas." — 

 (Vol. xiii., p. 143.) 



Mining Terms. — I am compiling for the English Dialect Society a 

 glossary of mining terms, and shall be much obliged to any one who will 

 help me by sending lists of terms actually in use in any district, or 

 references to works in which such terms may be found. — James Bhitten, 

 Natural History Museum, South Kensington, S.W. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting April 12th, Mr. R. A. 

 Kell in the chair. — A paper was read by Mr. George Griffiths, on 

 " Observations and Adventures in North Wales." Notwithstanding the 

 severe spring, several of our migrants from the south have been noted — 

 the chiff-chaff March 18th, the wheatear 25th, by J. H. Salter, Ackworth 

 School ; swallows seen April 11th by Mr. H. Garland of Woodhall, house 

 martin 17th, at Monk Bretton ; same day, swallows reported by Mr. 

 Hailstone, Walton Park ; cuckoo seen April 14th at Cudworth, black-cap 

 on the 14th. On April 4th Mr. Lister saw a carrion crow in the Dearne 

 valley ; the hooded crow is also reported from various parts. April 6th, 

 three flocks of golden plovers seen on Cockerham-road near the town ; 

 April 12th, the tree pipit heard, and lapwings observed in great numbers 

 in the Dearne valley. Mr. Salter saw the great-crested grebe and nine 

 pochards at Hiendley dam on March 26. — T. Lister. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society.— Meeting Mar. 29th, the president 

 (Mr. West) in the chair.— Mr. Foulds exhibited a fine specimen of the 

 great-crested grebe, taken at Shipley Glen. The president read an 

 instructive paper on Algse," describing the reproduction and classification 

 of these low forms of vegetation. 



Meeting April 12th, Mr. F. Richmond in the chair.— In the absence 

 of Mr. Jagger, Mr. West gave a lecture on ''Mosses," in which he 

 thoroughly described this group of plants, and showed by sketches on the 

 blackboard how to determine species not in fruit by their cell structure. 



