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days, and the other half on some other days, and that the annual meeting 

 should be held alternately upon Saturdays and Mondays, or some other 

 day which may afterwards be shown to be of greater advantage." It was 

 pointed out that the present practice of the Union was (at all events up 

 to last year inclusive) to hold half the excursions on Monday and half on 

 Saturday, and the chairman announced that the motion would come on 

 for discussion at the annual meeting at Selby, next March. The reports 

 of sections were then taken. Mr. Fowler reported on the plants, that, 

 owing to the lateness of the season, and the fact that the coal measures 

 (proverbially unproductive in plants) were the only strata visited, there 

 was but a poor display of specimens. The most noticeable were Chelidonium 

 majus, Bidens tripartita, Littorella lacustris, and Sagittaria sagittifolia. 

 Mr. H. T. Soppitt then mentioned that Haigh proved to be a very 

 productive place for fungi, of which he had collected the following : — 

 Agaricus (Amanita) vaginatus Bull, A. (A.) rubescens P., A. (Lepiota) 

 granulosus Batsch., A. (Clitocybe) laccatus Scop., A. ( Colly bia) macu- 

 latus A. & S., A. (C) tuberosus Bull, A. (Mycena) galericulatus Scop., 

 A. (Stropharia) semiglobatus Batsch., A. (S.) seruginosus Curt., A. 

 (Coprinus) radiatus Fr., A. (Panseolus) separatus L., A. (Galera) hyp- 

 norum Batsch., Marasmius peronatus Fr., Russula emetica Fr., R. 

 ochroleuca Fa., Lactarius rufus Fr., L. glyciosmus Fr., Paxillus involutus 

 Fr., Hygrophorus psittacinus Fr., Boletus calopus Fr., Polyporus versi- 

 color Fr., Dacrymyces stillatus Nees, Scleroderma vulgare Fr., Ly coper- 

 don gemmatum Fr., Spumaria alba D C, Sphserobolus stellatus Tode, 

 Ceuthospora phacidioides Grev., Puccinia hieracii, P. lapsani, ^cidium 

 tussilaginis Pers. , Coleosporium tussilaginis Lev. , Trichobasis suaveolens 

 Lev., T. rubigo-vera Lev., Melampsora betulina Desm., Pilobolus crystal- 

 linus Tode, Peziza calycina Sch., P. granulata Bull, Bulgaria inquinans 

 Fr., Ascobolus ciliatus Sch., Helotium aciculare, Fr., Sphoerotheca 

 pannosa Lev. , Erysiphe martii Link, Chsetomium elatum Kze, Corticium 

 sambuci P. For the Geological Section, Mr. Thomas Tate, F.G.S, 

 president of the section, reported as follows : — The district is situated 

 exclusively upon the middle coal measures, ranging from the Barnsley 

 coal seam, exposed south of Crigglestone station, up to the Havercroft 

 rock, capping Pyhill. The chief seams are the Beamshaw, or Stanley 

 Main, the Winter, or scale coal, and the Crofton seams, the latter seen 

 east of Walton station on the Great Northern railway. The Woolley 

 Edge rock makes a fine escarpment of coarse grit with quartz pebbles. As 

 it approaches Wakefield, which stands upon it, this rock assumes a fine- 

 grained flaggy structure. The Oaks rock also forms a prominent feature 

 in the landscape, as at Heath Common. It is also exposed in the 

 Agbrigg and Greenside quarries, and in numerous cuttings on the Midland 

 railway. These fresh-water sandstones contain much drifted vegetation, 

 usually fragmentary, so that good fossils could not be obtained^ 

 Specimens of estuarine, or fresh-water shells (Myalina modiolaris, 

 Anthracosia acuta, Anthracomya), from the coal shales, were exhibited. 



