Diary. —Meetings of Societies. 



May .S.Leeds Naturalists' Club, &c. — Microscopical and Botanical 

 Sections, 8 p.m. 

 3. LiA'c-rsedge Xatm^alists' Society. 



3. Bishop Auckland Xaturalists' Field Club. 



4. Wakefield Naturalists' Society.— Paper by Mr. J. L. Chaplin, 



r--lo p.m. " " - ' 



,, 0. Linnean Society of London. 8 p.m. 



7. Hudderstield-Xaturalists' Society. S p.m. 

 ,, 10. Leeds Xaturalists' Club, &c.— Entomological and Vertebrate 

 Sections. 



10. Bradford Xaturalists' Societv. — Paper by Mr. A. E. Benney, 

 7-3np.m. 



„ 11. York and District Xaturalists' Field Club. 

 ,, 13. Dewsbury Xaturalists' Society. 



,, 14. Yorkshire Xaturalists' Union. — Excursion to Sheffield, for the 

 Eivelin Yallev. Local Sec, Mr. J. C. Burrell, King Street, 

 Sheffield. 



„ 16. Manchester Cryptogamic Society, at Old To^vn Hall, King Street, 

 7-30 p m. 



„ 17. Leeds Xaturalists' Club, &c. — Microscopical and Botanical 

 Sections. 



„ 20. Xort.h Staffordshire Xaturalists' Field Club.— Excru^sion to Cloud 



Hill. Leader — Mr. Goss. 

 ,, 23. Huddersfield Xaturalists' Society. — Paper " The Ant," by 



G. P. Stather, 



,, 24. Linnean Society of London. — Anniversary Meeting. 3 p.m. 

 „ 24. Leeds Xatui-aiists' Club, Arc— Entomological and Yertebrate 

 Sections. 



.. 24. Bradford Xaturalists' Society. — Paper by Mr. B. Spencer. 



,, 30. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



„ 31. Leeds Xaturalists' Club, See. — Lecture " The Island of Eodrigues 

 and its Fauna, as tliev were and as they are," by H. H. 

 Slater. B.A., F.L.S.,' of Eipon, late XaturaHst to H. M, 

 Transit of Venus Expedition to Eodrigues, 1874. 



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TRA NSA C TlOm of the YORKSHIRE NA JURA LIS TS' UNION. 



PART I. FOE 1S7< . contains the commencement of "The Birds of Yorkshire," 

 by Mr. Y'. E. Clarke, M.B.O U. ; of an "Annotated List of the Land and Fresh- 

 water MoUusca of Yorkshire," by Messrs. AVm. Xelson and J. Y'. Taylor ; a 

 complete list of Yorkshire Hymenoptera, with references to literatm-e of that 

 order, by Mr. Y". Denison Eoebuck; a paper on " Yorkshire Macro-lepidoptera 

 in 1877," by I\ir. G. T. Torritt, F.L.S. ; one on "Yorkshire Micro-lepidoptera 

 inlS77," by 3Ir. Wm. Prest ; 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 1878 contain the continuations of Mr. Clarke's 

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

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

 Dr. Parsons ; the commencement of Dr. Parsons' ' ' Moss-Flora of the East- 

 Eiding " ; papers on Yorkshii'e Lepidoptera in 1878, by Mr. Porritt, F.L.S. ; on 

 Yorkshire Ichneumonidru, by 3Ir. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S. ; and on Yorkshu-e 

 Hymenoptera, obseryed in 1S78, by Jlr. "W. Denison Eoebuck. 



PART IV. FOR 1879, in preparation. — Amongst papers in preparation for 

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

 G. T. PoiTitt, F.L.S., and W. Prest. 



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