Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting May 9th, Mr. T. Lister 

 in the chair. — The botanical section exhibited a good number of plants, 

 the result of local excursions. Some excursions were interesting in bot- 

 anical, geological, and ornithological results. At Royston a large granitic 

 boulder, described in Prof. Green's paper, and a drift-bed at New Lodge, 

 on the Wakefield-road, were inspected. The ornithological report gives 

 account of several birds, and further notices of spring migrants, the list 

 of which is nearly completed. The exceptionally early dates of the 

 swallow and cuckoo seen and heard March 19th — one of the hot days — 

 by Mr. T. Dymond and his men at Burnt wood Hail (not Brimham, as 

 stated in the May Naturalist), are confirmed by many witnesses. They 

 have appeared at Barnsley from the 1st to the middle of April in great 

 numbers : the average date of the swallow is April 10, cuckoo 14th. Up 

 to the first week in May we have reports of all the migrants : April 16th, 

 redstarts, nesting ; I7th, whitethroat and tree pipit ; 19th, landrail. 

 Burntwood — 22nd, grasshopper warbler ; 23rd, martin ; 16th, yellow' 

 wagtail ; 25th, whinchat and sedge-warbler ; 27th, blackcap ; 28th, lesser 

 whitethroat ; May 1st, grey flycatcher, pied flycatcher, garden warbler, 

 wood warbler, nightingale ; 3rd, nightjar ; 13th, swift. — T. L. 



Beverley Field Naturalists' and Scientific Society. — Twelfth 

 meeting, April 27 th. — A resolution expressing regret at the loss sustained 

 by the scientific world in the death of Mr. Charles Darwin, was carried 

 unanimously. The Rev. W. Smith exhibited a number of micro slides 

 of sections, cuticles, &c., illustrating plant life. * 



Thirteenth Meeting, May 11th, the president, Mr. J. A. Ridgway, 

 in the chair. — The Rev. E. J. Barry exhibited twenty-three specimens 

 from the families of the Lithosidce, Chelo7udoe, and Bomhycidce, one speci-^ 

 men being a pale variety of the male Odonesiis potatoria. Mr. H. M. Ellis- 

 showed some enormous fossil bivalves from the oolite, and some interest- 

 ing fossils from boulders at the top of the chalk pits of the Queensgate 

 Whiting Co., were also brought by the Rev. E. J. Barry. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting March 21st. — Mr. 

 Richmond read a paper on " Inland Waters and Water Plants. " He 

 dwelt chiefly on artificial waters and the way they might be beautified, 

 shewing that in many cases they were made to look very unnatural, 

 chiefly from the want of vegetable life on the margins. 



Meeting April 4th. — The greater part of the evening was devoted to 

 the exhibition of microscopical objects. 



Meeting April 18th. — Mr. West read a paper on the Natural Order^ 

 Compositae." Minutely describing this group, he stated that a tenth part 

 of all flowering plants belonged to this group, which contains above 1000 

 genera and 10,000 species ; 152 of these species occur in Britain under 44 

 genera, 1367 species occur in Europe under 157 genera, ancl 481 specie^ 

 occur in the United States under 112 genera."^ 



* The above reports arrived too late for May No. Unless in hand before the 

 18th of the month, we cannot guarantee insertion, — Eds, Nat, 



