[Owing to an unfortunate mistake several of the following reports of 'meetings 

 were unintentionally omitted from our last. — Eds. Nat. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Feb. 7th. — The annual 

 conversazione was a most successful gathering, terminating with the 

 address of the president (Dr. Lancaster). 



Meeting Mar. •14th, the president in the chair. — An able paper on the 

 history of Artificial Light was given by Mr. C . Hutchinson, the various 

 burners and their comparative illuminating power being exhibited. The 

 ornithological observations recorded are, that nearly all our resident 

 songsters have commenced their songs weeks earlier than usual. Jan. 11, 

 thrushes reported in song ; 14th, skylarks sang ; Feb. 9, chaffinches ; 

 21, yellow-hammers and green linnets sang. The robin, hedge-chanter 

 (or dunnock), mistletoe thrush, and blackbird have sung, less or more, all 

 the winter. Two short-eared owls — one at Tyers Hill and one near 

 Barnsley — were obtained Jan, 14th. Herons, kestrels, snipes, cole, 

 marsh, and great tits, starlings, and bullfinches recorded in various 

 places, and a few of the grey wagtail — a winter visitor. — Thos. Lister. — 

 Errata (March No.) — Great shrike at Horsforth" should have been 

 ''Keresforth." 



Beverley Field Naturalists' and Scientific Society. — Fortnightly 

 meeting at Norwood, on Thursday evening, the 16th February, the 

 Rev. E. J. Barry, vice-president, in the chair. A number of interesting 

 objects were exhibited. Mr. Cherry showed a fine specimen of the great 

 Northern diver Colymbus glacialis, shot in the Beck, on November 29th, 

 1881, and Mr. J. C. Swailes two hawfinches, Coccothraustes vulgaris, taken 

 in Beverley Westwood. Amongst the exhibits in the entomological 

 section were varieties of Smerintlins populi and Chelonia caja, brought by 

 Mr. Cherry, and a number of lepidoptera collected by Mr. McEnnes at 

 Beverley and Cheltenham, including Epione vespertaria and the marbled 

 white butterfly, taken at Hunsley, near Beverley, 24 years ago, but now 

 supposed to be extinct in the neighbourhood. Mr. McEnnes also showed 

 the male and female of the Japanese silkworm moth, the female measuring 

 6| inches across the wings. An extraordinary fasciated specimen of the 

 broad-leaved ash, Fraxinus Europceus latifolius was shown by Mr. Swailes. 

 Mr. Butterell exhibited Modiola modiolus, a large deep sea mussel, 

 measuring over six inches in length, dredged by Hull fishermen ofi" the 

 Yorkshire coast, together with male and female specimens of its parasite, 

 the pea-crab. Male and female specimens and young of Faludina vivipara 

 were also shown. 



Meeting held at Norwood, 2nd March, Mr. H. M. Ellis in the chair. — 

 An extremely interesting paper on the " Study of Geology " was read by 

 the president, Mr. J. A. Bidgway. A number of interesting geological 

 specimens were placed on the table by several of the members. 



