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The Naturalist. 



been much confined to the house by ill health. Many are the pleasant 

 days which his friends will recollect enjoying in his company, at Haw 

 Park, and New Park Spring, and Woolley Edge, and many a pleasant 

 place beside ; and it will be long before his place is adequately filled. 



liainfnll fox |uite. 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 



Amount 

 of 



Heaviest 

 Fall. 





Days 



1882. 



1881. 



Fall. 



HuDDERSFiELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. W. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 



4-06 



22 



18-36 



* 14-35 



22 



1-10 



Halifax...(F. G. S. Eawson) 



355 



5-25 



17 



27-02 



19-64 







Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



3-325 



19 



13-635 



no -515 



22 



1-060 



HORSFOETH . . . (James Fox) 



350 



3-780 



23 



15-760 



J14-073 



22 



1-090 



Baensley ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



3-93 



20 



14-35 



10-77 



26 



0-66 



Ingbiechwoeth (do.) , ,, 



853 



4-78 



20 



20-79 



15-51 



. 22 



1-46 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



3-21 



20 



15-04 



12-98 



22 



0-85 



GooLE ... (J. Haeeison) ... 



25 



3-69 



17 



14-57 



9-83 



22 



0-70 



Hull (Derringham) {Wxa. 



Lawton) 



10 



3-34 



23 



13-14 



9-012 



9 



0-55 



* This is the avei^age to date for 16 years, 1866-81. 

 t Average of 28 years, 1853-62 and 1865-82. 

 J Average of 13 years, 1870-82. 



Bae,nslby Naturalists' Society. — At the meetings July 4th and 18th, 

 reports of the sectional meetings were read, also accounts of the local 

 excursions, with the various plants, insects, and birds observed. The 

 society has organised one excursion monthly ; the June one was to New 

 Park Spring and Dearne Valley, rich in warblers, including the nightin- 

 gale, and some plants not commonly distributed, as Paris quadrifolia, 

 Convallaria majalis, Nuphar lutea, and Hottonia palushis. It is many 

 years since the latter was found in the same valley, the railway workings 

 having disturbed it ; the other two have only been re-discovered of late 

 years. The ornithological observations were few, owing to Mr. Lister 

 having recently been in London and neighbourhood, where the summer 

 warblers were numerous. He counted eight nightingales within a small 

 fringe of Epping Forest, in one hour's ramble ; near Colchester, Hamp- 

 stead, Kew, and Chalford, they might be heard night and day. In 

 Wakefield district it has been heard in three distinct localities. Other 



