Eainfall for September. 



59 



ature. This locality is often either a little below the surface of the 

 ground, as with one or more of the onion flies, the carrot fly, cabbage-root 

 flies, and others, or amongst damp herbage, or on, or close to, the plants 

 at the ground level, as with the daddy-longlegs or the click beetle (from 

 whose eggs we are infested with the wireworm) ; and many others lay 

 similarly. 



(To he continued.) 





Height 



of 

 gauge 

 above 



sea 

 level. 



Rain- 

 fall. 



No. 



of 



Total Fall 

 TO Date. 



Date of 

 heaviest 



Amount 

 of 



Heaviest 

 FaU. 





Days 



1882. 



1881. 



a all. 



HUDDEKSFIELD (Dalton) ... 



(J. TT. Robson) 



Ft. 



350 



In. 

 1-64 



17 



24-68 



* 23-63 



30 



0-26 



HALrPAX...(F. G. S. Eawson) 



365 



1-86 



11 



35-94 



32-34 







Leeds ... (Alfred Denny)... 



183 



1-135 



17 



19-440 



tl7-912 



27 



0-480 



HOESFORTH ... (James Fox) 



350 



2-070 



19 



24-620 



+23-459 



27 



0-340 



Baenslet ... (T. Lister) ... 



350 



•71 



15 



22-01 



18-52 



27 



0-72 



Ingbiechwoeth (do.) 



853 



3-18 



16 



30-97 



28-30 



19 



0-72 



Wentwoeth Castle (do.)... 



520 



2-90 



15 



23-40 



21-56 



26 



0-59 



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



25 



1-49 



17 



22-51 



18-92 



1 



0-37 



Hull (Derringham) (Wm. 



Lawton) 



10 



1-43 



17 



16-169 



1 



19-72 



1 



0-37 



* Average to date for 16 years, 1866-81. f Average of 28 years, 1853-62 & 1865-82. 

 X Average of 13 years, 1870-82. 



Barnslby Naturalists' Society. — Meeting Oct. 10th, Mr. T. Lister 

 in the chair. — An interesting paper was read by Mr. Frankland on 

 " Early Reminiscences of Birds and their Eggs, among the Cleveland 

 Hills." The botanical section have added to their long list several 

 flowering plants, amongst them — Aug. 29, Epilobium angustifolium, 

 Bparganium simplex, Solanum nigrum ; Sept. 25, Cerastium aquaticum, 

 Sedum telephium, Nuphar lutea ; Sept. 7th, Reseda luteola ; 2Tth, Clematis 

 vitalba, Antirrhinum Orontium. Few insects have been observed, amongst 

 them being Nonagria fulva and Celcena Haivorthii — the first new to the 

 district. Amongst birds noted are, nightjar Aug. 21, whitethroat Sep. 5, 

 landrail 19th, male gold crest and landrail 22nd ; magpie, grey linnet, 

 and twite numerous at Ingbirch worth ; larks in song ; swallows and 

 martins in flocks at Stainborough Park ; straggling instances of swallows 

 in Cockshaw-road, near Barnsley, 28th ; martin Oct. 2nd ; swallows in 

 flock at Monkbretton Grange — the last seen by the chairman. Great 

 spotted woodpeckers, jays, and kingfishers noted near Barnsley. — T. L. 



