Diary.— Meetings of Societies. 



Sept. 6. Liversedge Naturalists' Society. 



6. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Club. 



7. "Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical Society. 

 7. Entomological Society of London, 7-30 p.m. 

 9. Dewsbury Naturalists' Society. 



12. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. — " Snowfields," Mr. J. B. 

 Crossley, 8 p.m. 



13. Bradford Naturalists' Society.— Microsopical Evening, Mr. W. 

 West, 7-30 p.m. 



■„ 14. York and District Naturalists' Field Club. 



19. Manchester Cryptogamic Society, 7-30 p.m. 



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

 Dale Abbey. Local Secretary, Rev. T. W. Daltry, M.A., 

 F.L.S. 



24. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. — "Reptiles," Mr. G. P. Stather. 

 26. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 

 26. Bradford Naturalists' Society. — "Geological Time," Mr. W. 

 Jagger. 



TRA NSA CTIONS of the YORKSHIRE NA JURA LIS TS' UNION. 



PART I. FOR 1S77 contains the commencement of "The Birds of Yorkshire," 

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

 water MoUusca of Yorkshire," by Messrs. Wm. Nelson and J. W. Taylor ; a 

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

 order, by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck; a paper on " Yorkshire Macro-lepidoptera 

 in 1877," by IVIr, G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. ; one on "Yorkshire Micro-leiudoptera 

 in 1877," by Mr. Wm. Prest ; papers by Mr. S. L. Mosley, on " Yorkshne Diptera," 

 and on the Yorkshire species of Hemiptera of the Family Psyllidce ; and a 

 report on Yorkshire Botany in 1877, by Dr. H. F. Parsons, F.G.S. 



PARTS II. AND III. FOR 1878 contain the continuations of Mr. Clarke's 

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

 Mollusca of Yorkshire ; an elaborate rej^ort 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 Ichneumonidce, by Mr. S. D. Bau'stow, F.L.S. ; and on Yorkshire 

 Hymenoptera, observed in 1878, by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck. 



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

 futm-e parts is a Catalogue of Yorkshire Lepidoptera, to be written by Messrs. 

 G. T. Porritt, F.L.S., and W. Prest. 



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