Diary.— Meetings of Societies. 



Jan. 3. Barnsley Naturalists' Society.— Annual Meeting, 8-] 5 p.m. 

 „ 3. Liversedge Naturalists' Society. 

 „ 3. Bishop Auckland Naturalists' Field Club. 



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

 „ 4. Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical Society. 

 „ 11. York and District Naturalists' Field Club. 

 „ 13. Dewsbury Naturalists' Society. 

 - „ 16. Huddersfield Literary and Scientific Society. — Microscopic Soiree, 

 8 p.m. 



„ 16. Manchester Cryptogamic Society, 7-30 p.m. 



,. 16. Leeds Geological Association. — " Astromyelon and its Allies." — Mr. 



J. spencer, of Halifax, 8 p m. 

 ,, 19. Linnean Society of London, 8 p.m. 



„ 20. North Staffordshire Naturalists' Field Club. — Meeting at Hanley, 



Local Secretary, Mr. A. Smith. 

 ,, 30. Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Annual Conversazione. — Lecture on 



" Volcanoes," Mr. li. Gascoyne, F.G.S. 

 ,, 30. Leeds Geological Association. 

 „ 31. Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society. 



TRANSACTIONS oftheYORKSHI RE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



PART I. FOB 1S77 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. \Y. 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. Brest ; papers by Mr. S. L. Mosley, on "Yorkshire Uiptera,' 

 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 

 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 Ichneumonidce, hj Mr. S. D. Bairstow, F.L.IS. ; and on Yorkshire 

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



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Treating of the Odours, Dances, Colours, and Music of Insects, 

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