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The Naturalist. 



The adder recorded on page 190 of the Naturalist was produced at the 

 meeting. — E. B. W. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — The fifth meeting was held at 

 Richmond on Bank Holiday Monday , the 1st of August. Owing to the 

 inaccessibility of the place for many societies, only those of Leeds and 

 Halifax were represented, about thirty members being present. Under 

 the guidance of Mr. E. B. Walton the secretary, W. D. Benson the vice- 

 president, of the Hichmond Club, Mr. James March, and others of the 

 members, the party walked down the north bank of the Swale to the 

 rains of Easby Abbey. A party of geologists, headed by Prof. Green, 

 drove to the locality in which the Woodocrinus is found, and to the 

 Gallow Fields, and other sections. Other places were also visited, 

 including the Temple Grounds. The meetings were held in the Museum 

 of the Richmond and North Hiding Naturalists' Club, which contains a 

 very nice series of collections and some interesting specimens, including 

 one of Banks' oarfish (Regalecus Banksii), which had been taken at 

 Seaton. The general meeting was presided over by the Rev. H. H. 

 Slater, B.A., F.Z. S., vice-president. The minutes having been taken as 

 read, votes of thanks were passed — to Dr. H. W. T. Ellis, of Crowle, and 

 Rev. A. E. Wright, president of the Richmond Naturalists' Club, for 

 becoming subscribers ; to Miss Barclay, of Richmond, for the donation of 

 £1 to the funds, and for various transactions and other donations to the 

 library. Similar votes to the local secretary (Mr. E. Bridges Walton), to 

 Mr. Smurthwaite for admission to his grounds, and to the Richmond 

 Club for the use of the room, were passed. The reports of sections were 

 then given. The chairman reported for the Vertebrate Section. The 

 Conchological Report was not given, in consequence of the absence of the 

 officers of the section. The Rev. M. S. Dunbar, M.A., of Leeds, 

 reported for the Entomological Section that none but common insects had 

 been obtained. Mr. Jno. Jackson, of Wetherby, in the absence of the 

 ofiicers of the Botanical Section, reported that although they (the 

 botanists) had not found anything particularly rare, they had seen a 

 profusion of good x^lants, and had enjoyed exceedingly the walk by the 

 banks of the Swale. The best plants seen were as follows : — Berberis 

 vulgaris, Saponaria ofl&cinalis, Silene inflata, ditto, var. puberula, Arenaria 

 serpyllifolia, ditto, var. leptoclados, Alsine verna, Malva moschata. 

 Geranium lucidum, G. sylvaticum, Prunus Padus, Pyrus aria, Sedum 

 acre, Saxifraga tridactylites, (Egopodium Podagraria, Myrrhis odorata, 

 Conium maculatum, Valeriana officinalis, Solidago virga-aurea, Vinca 

 minor, Linaria cymbalaria, Veronica montana, Salvia verbenaca, Symphy- 

 tum officinale, Echium vulgare. Daphne laureola. Allium oleraceum, 

 Carex sylvatica, C. remota, Melica uniflora. Horde um murinum, Asple- 

 nium trichomanes, A. ruta-muraria. and Polypodium vulgare. Mr. W. 

 Cheetham reported on the results of the Geological Section, which had 

 been very successful. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the 

 business. 



