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The Naturalist. 



0 VENDED Naturalists' Society. — Monthly meeting, June 24t}i, Mf^ 

 J. Spencer in the chair. — The following botanical specimens, amongst 

 others, were laid on the table '.-^Trientalis europcea, Polygala vulgaris, 

 Geum rivale, Luzula sylvatica, Pinguicula vulgaris, Rhinaiithus crista-galli, 

 Sanicula europcea, Myosotis palustris, Lactuea virosa, Lysimachia nemo- 

 rum, Geranium pratense, Polypodium phegoptei'is, &c. — Joseph Ogden", 

 Sec. 



Wakefield Naturalists' and Philosophical Society. — On June 

 6th this, society visited WooUey Edge, WooUey Hall Gardens, the Park 

 and district, accompanied by representatives from Hnddersfield and 

 Heckmondwike Naturalists' Societies, and Wakefield Paxton Society. A 

 fair number of specimens were collected in most departments, but none 

 of them new to the district, or indicating any new feature of distribution. 



Meeting, June 7th, the president (Mr. Joseph Wainwright, F.L.S.) in 

 the chair. — Mr, Spurling exhibited the following from Haw Park : — 

 Imagos : M. hastata, T. hiundularia, A. mendica, C. fluduosa, B. rJiom- 

 boidaria, and larva of 0. antiqua ; Mr. J. Toms, a quantity of 

 fossil ferns from the coal measures in the neighbourhood ; Mr. J. 

 W^ilcock, several species of coleoptera taken the preceding day at 

 WooUey ; the secretary, four species of beetles (alive), kindly forwarded 

 him by Mr. G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. , of Huddersfield, who had taken them 

 at Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, including Melosoma Tremulm, Fabr., 

 CJirysomela fastuosa. Lin. — E. B. W. 



Y.N.U. Ramble to Snaith. — The route taken by the coleopterists was 

 by way of the carrs to PoUington, where a few somewhat scarce northern 

 insects were taken (particularly in the Hydradephaga) out of a drain 

 across the fields. The umbriferous plants around Balne Pond were also 

 very productive ; four species of Phyllotreta and two species of Donacia, 

 with a number of others, were taken by sweeping. Among the stones 

 along the banks of the Knottingley and Goole canal, a few specimens of 

 Clivinia fossor ajid coUaris, with one specimen of Drypta dentata, Ross., 

 were amongst the Geodephaga taken there. Along Hagg-lane to Snaith 

 a number of good things turned up, including, at the latter place, CJiry- 

 somela fucata, Fabr., Coccinella l^-guttata, Linn. ; and at the former 

 Attellabus curculionoides, Gartrophyla polygoni, Linn., Cassida equestris^ 

 Fabr., and Pyrocroa serraticornis, Scop. In all, 69 species were taken 

 and two varieties. — E. B. Wrigglesworth. 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. — The third meeting for 1882 was 

 held at Scarborough on the 15th of July, for the investigation of the 

 shore and neighbourhood, and permission had been given by Lords 

 Downe and Londesborough to visit their respective estates. The following 

 parties were formed :— 1. Mr. Massee led a party to the rocks on the 

 north beach, where numerous species of algse were obtained. Had the 

 weather been propitious, this party was to have spent some portion of its 



