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The Naturalist. 



^'arnfall fox |fitlg. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



ToTAii Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 

 Fall. 



Amount 

 of 



neaviest 

 FalL 





Days 









sea 

 level. 







1881. 



1880. 





HUDDERSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



2-48 



9 



15-21 



* 17-35 



26 



0-93 



Halifax... (F. G. S. Eawson) 



365 



4-02 



19 



23.66 



23-86 







Wakefield (E. B. Wriggles- 

 worth) 



100 



2-19 



11 



12-83 





31 



0-70 





250 

 90 

 350 



2-02 

 2-21 

 1-40 



11 

 10 

 12 



12-08 

 12-82 

 11-73 





5 



0-55 







5 



0-64 



Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



2-76t 



31 



0-46 



Ingbirchworth (do.) 



853 



3-79 



15 



19-30 



25-50 



31 



1-68 



Went WORTH Castle (do.)... 



520 



1-33 



12 



14-31 



20-39 



31 



0-31 



■GooLB ... (J. Harrison) ... 



25 



1-76 



11 



11-59 



16-58 



5 



0-40 



* This is the average to date for 15 years, 1866-80. f {sic) 



Slpxt |l0tcs anb Queries. 



Racomitrium heterostichum at Marsden. — On 6tli inst., I gathered a 

 tuft of this moss alongside Red Brook, Marsden, near Huddersfield, on 

 some rocky boulders. I believe this is the first time it has been 

 recorded for the Colne with Calder area, and certainly the first for this 

 portion of it. It was not in fruit, but the leaf structure is suflicient to 

 distinguish it ivom fasciculare and sudeticum, the only other species with 

 which it could be confounded in a barren state. — C. P. Hobkirk. 



Entomological Notes. — I have, this season, had the pleasure of 

 rearing, from eggs, several larvae of Acronycta alni ; they are now spinning 

 up, but their gradual developement has been of the greatest interest to 

 me. I have also a few larvse of the local Acidalia ochrata, from eggs sent 

 from Deal, by Mr. W. H. Tugwell ; these show signs of hibernating 

 whilst still very small. And I have also received a batch of eggs of the 

 Folkestone speciality, Lemiodes pulveralis, which hatched a few days ago. 

 To my cabinet I have added a series of Scoparia alpina, recently taken in 

 Scotland. And Mr. Fletcher informs me that a yellow form of Zygmia 

 meliloti has been taken this year in the New Forest. — Geo. T. Porritt. » 



Museum for Huddersfield. —We are glad to be able to announce 

 that the splendid collection of British Birds (295 cases), belonging to Mr. 

 Alfred Beaumont, have been purchased for £200, as the nucleus of a 



