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before the naturalists had completed their researches, and shortly after 

 that hour they adjourned to the Alexandra Hotel for tea. Subsequently 

 the sections met for the purpose of classifying the various specimens, and 

 afterwards the general meeting was held. Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S. 

 (Huddersfield), v.p. , presided, and the following societies were represented : 

 — Bradford Naturalists' Society, Bradford Scientific Association, Driffield 

 Naturalists' Society, Goole Naturalists' Society, Huddersfield Naturalists' 

 Society, Huddersfield Literary and Scientific Association, Huddersfield 

 Scientific Club, Hull Naturalists' Society, Leeds Conchological Society, 

 Leeds Geological Society, Leeds Naturalists' Field Club, Malton Natu- 

 ralists' Society, and Selby Naturalists' Society. Several new subscribers 

 were added to the Union, and a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. N. F. 

 Dobree, of Beverley, for his services as local secretary. — Mr. S. Jefierson 

 proposed a vote of thanks to H. S. Constable, Esq. , for his permission to 

 visit the Hornsea Mere estate. Mr. Dobree stated the result of the 

 investigations of the entomological department, remarking that the 

 section had little to report, owing to the early date of the meeting and the 

 inclemency of the spring. Of lepidoptera, diurni were not seen beyond 

 the commonest species ; of geometrse the most noteworthy were Acidalia 

 emarginata, Melanippe montanata, and Emmelesia decolorata, the latter 

 being new to Holderness. Mr. T. E. Holder, of Hull, the only coleopterist 

 present, reported coleoptera more abundant ; Athous liEemorrhoidalis, 

 Otiorhynchus picipes, Hister bimaculata, were taken, and also seven 

 species which have been submitted to Mr. Wrigglesworth to be 

 named, but whose report is not yet received. The day's doings in botany 

 were reported upon by Mr. F. Arnold Lees, F.L.S. Of phanerogams 

 eighty species had been observed in bloom, of which the following were 

 the most noteworthy : — Thalictrum flavum, Ranunculus circinnatus, 

 Cochlearia danica, &ilene maritima, Honkeneja peploides, Geranium 

 columhinnm, Hippuris vulgaris, Myriophyllum eu-spicatum, Ceratophylluni 

 aquaticum, Slum latifolium (border of Mere), Menyanthes trifoliata, 

 Convolvulus Soldanella, Hottonia palustris, Plantago Coronopus, Bumex 

 Hydrolapathum, Hydrocharis Morsus-ranse, Elodea canadensis, Orchis 

 Morio, 0. ustulata, O. incarnata ; Habenaria viridis, Carex arenaria 

 (sands by sea), Carex paludosa, C. riparia, Glyceria aquatica, and Elymus 

 arenarius. The eight of the foregoing placed in italics are " New County 

 Records," i.e. they are additions to the divisional distribution given in 

 " Topographical Botany," fiot having been published before for the vice- 

 county 61 — the south-east fifth of Yorkshire. The Elymus, the Slum, 

 and the 0. incarnata were only recently placed on record for the division 

 in the B. record Club Reports. In cryptogams little was done during 

 th'e day. One fern — Ophioglosum vulgatum — wojthy of mention, was 

 seen ; no mosses beyond the very commonest ; three kinds of common 

 corticolous lichens occur in some luxuriance on trees on the islands in 

 the Mere — Evernia, Ramalina, etc. ; and three micro-fungi were col- 

 lected : Puccinia segopodii, -^cidium rubellum and valerianacearum. 



