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leaders of parties for their assistance, and to the Sheffield Naturalists*" 

 Club for defraying the additional cost of publishing a four-page instead 

 of a one-page circular. The Sectional reports were then taken. In the 

 absence of the officers of the Conch ological section, Mr. W. Denison 

 Roebuck reported that very few shells had been obtained, the weather 

 and geological character of the locality being both unfavourable. For the 

 Entomological section Mr. E. B. Wrigglesworth (secretary) reported. 

 Of coleoptera there were 15 species, viz., Notiophilus biguttatus, Fabr. j 

 Loricera pilicornis, Fabr. ; Anchomenus prasinus, Thunb. ; A junceus, 

 Scop. ; Pterostichus vulgaris, Linn. ; P. striola, Fabr. ; GeotrupeS' 

 sylvaticus, Panz. ; G. mesoleiu?, Marsh. (Stercorarius of Sharp's 

 Catdlogue) ; Agriotes obscurus, Linn. ; Meloe violaceus, Marsh ; 

 Tachinus rufipes. De G. ; C onosoma pubescen.s, Gr. \ Philonthus politus, 

 Fabr. ; Othius fulvipennis. F, ; 0. punctipennis. Lac. Hymenoptera — 

 four species of ants, two of bees, and two ichneumons. In lepidoptera 

 one larva and two butterflies were obtained. The officers of the 

 Botanical section being absent, Mr. A. Carr of Sheffield enumerated 

 the mosses found (46), including Sphagnum pluraosum, S. con- 

 tortum, S. cynibifoli'.im, var. squarrosulum, Aulacoraniimi androgynura, 

 Fontinalis squamosa, Pterygophyllum lacens, Hyocomium flagellare, and 

 Plagiothecium sylvaticum. The most uncommon hepatics (i8) noted were 

 Asterella hemisphserica, Bazzania trilobata, Blepharozia ciliaris, Mylia 

 Taylori, Nardia emarginata, Aneura pinguis, and Aneura sinuata. No 

 lichens, fungi, nor algce were reported. Mr. Councillor F. Brittain, of 

 Sheffield, then followed, with interesting observations on the phanerogamic 

 plants noted, which included Cardamine amara, Hjqoericum elodes, Ulex 

 Ga'llii, Ornithopus perpusillus, Rubus affinis, R. rliamnifolius, R. leuco- 

 stachys, R. macrophyllus, var. umbrosus, R. diversifolius, Rosa mollisima, 

 R. tomentosa, T<)rilis nodosa, Crepis paludosa, Yaccinium oxycoccos, V, 

 Vitis-idsea, Mentha rubra, Scutellaria minor, Carex muricata, C. pendula^ 

 Polypodium Dryopteris, and Equisetum maximum, Mr. Brittain also 

 •gave some remarks on the flora of the district, and regretted the Union 

 had not chosen a more productive locality. Mr. B. Holgate, F.G.S., 

 of Leeds, secretary of the Geological section, reported. In the 

 •absence of the officers of the Vertebrate section, Mr. Thos. Lister of 

 Barnsley reported birds in the Rivelin Valley and the wooded glens of 

 Wyoming and PJbbleden : — Migrants — all of the swallow tribe, also, 

 the cuckoo, sand-piper, white-throat, willow and wocd warblers, tree- 

 pipit, redstart, sedge- warbler, whinchat, corn-crake, garden-warbler j 

 amongst the residents were magpie, missel thrush, blackbird, wren, 

 meadow pipit, pied wagtail, grey and green linnets, and lesser redpoll, 

 bullfinch, yellow and corn bunting, chaffinch, starling, ring-dove, marsh 

 tit— twenty residents. The curator reported the short-eared owl, May 

 12th, and the rough-legged buzzard, Sept. 1880. Mr. E. Howarth, 

 curator of the Sheffield Museum, followed, after which a vote of thanks 

 to the chairman concluded the proceedings. — W. D. R. 



