ir Papers. 



Diary.— Meetings of Societies. 



Oct. 1. Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — Fungus Show in Albert Hall, 

 Mechanics' Inbtitute, Leeds, at 2 p.m. Dinner at 5-30 

 p.m., in the Powolny's Rooms, Bond Street, Leeds. 

 „ 4. Liversedge Naturalists' Society. 

 ,, 4. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Cluh. 

 „ 5. Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical Society. 

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

 10. Huddersfield Naturalists' Society .— " British Birds," Mr. S. L. 

 Mosley, 8 p.m. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society.-— Paper by Mr. Rogers, 7-30 p.m. 

 York and District Naturalists' Field Club. 

 Dewsbury Naturalists' Society. 

 Manchester Cryptogamio Society, 7-30 p.m. 



North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. — Excursion to 



Sandbach and Brereton. Leader, Mr. Lynam. 

 Huddei'sfield Naturalists' Society. — "The Food of Game Birds," 



Mr. James Varley. 

 Bradford Naturalists' Society. — " Report of Vertebrate Section," 

 Mr. Firth. 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



TRA NSA C TIONS of the YORKSHIRE NA JURA LIS TS' 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. 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 Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. ; one on "Yorkshire Micro-lepidoptera 

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

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

 j.epoi't on Yorkshire Botany in 1877, by Dr. H. F. Pai'sons, F.G.S. 



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

 Birds of Yorkshii-e, 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"; palmers on Yorkshire Lepidoptera in 1878, by Mr. Porritt, F.L.S. : on 

 Yorkshire Ichneumonida', by Mr. S. D. Bairstow, 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 

 future 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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