Diary. —Meetings of Societies. 



August 1. Bai\k Holi-la v.— Yorkshire Xatiu'alists" Union.— Excursion to 

 Richmond, Local Secretary, Mr. E. Brydges Walton, 

 Kichmond. 

 2. Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 

 ,, 2. Livoi'sedg-e Naturalists' Society. 



2. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Cluh. 



3. "Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical Society. 

 ,. 10. York and District Naturalists' Field Club. 



12. Dewsbury Natui-alists' Society. 



15. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society.— Paper by Mr. J. Mackenzie. 



15. Manchester (.'ryptogamic Society. 



16. Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 



26. North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. — Excursion to 

 Llangollen. 

 „ 27. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. 



29. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 

 „ .30. Barnsley Naturalists' Society. 



TRANSACTIONS oftheYORKSHI RE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



PART I. FOR 1877, contains the commencement of "The Birds of Yorkshire," 

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

 water Mollusca of Yorkshire," by ^Messrs. "\Vm. Nelson and J. "\V. Taylor ; a 

 complete list of Yorkshire Hymenoptera, with references to literature of that 

 order, by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck ; a pai)er on " Yorkshire iMacro-lepidoptera 

 in 1877," by ^Ir. G. T. Porritt, ^\L.S. ; one on "Yorkshire Micro-lejiidoptera 

 in 1877,'" by Mr. Wm. Prest ; papers hy Mr. S. L. ]\Iosley. on " Yorkshii'e Diptera," 

 and on the Yorkshire species of Hemiptera of the Family Psi/IIidce ; and a 

 repoi-t on Yorksliire Botany in 1877, by Dr. H. F. Parsons, F.G.S. 



PARTS II. AND III. FOR 1S78 contain the continuations of Mr. Clarke's 

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

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

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

 Riding" ; papers on Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1878, by Mr. Porritt, F.L.S. ; on 

 Yorkshire IcJineumonidce, by ]Mr. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.S. ; and on Yorkshire 

 Hymenoptera, observed in 1878, by Mr. ^V. Denison Roebuck. 



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

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

 G. T. Pomtt, F.L.S., and AV. Prest. 



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 to the fimds of tlie Union. Intending subscribers are invited to send their names 

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