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Leeds, Mr. John Rookledge, F.R.M.S., of Easingwold, Mr. H. Jowitt, 

 of Bishop Thornton, and the Rev. Frederick Addison, of Thirsk. Mr. 



B. M. Smith, the secretary of the Ripon Naturalists' Club, proposed a 

 vote of thanks to Mr. Wm. Gregson for his services as local secretary, 

 and to Viscount Downe, Capt. Gallwey, and Messrs. B. T. Woodd and 



C. F. H. Bolckow, for permission to visit their respective estates. This was 

 seconded and carried. The reports of sections were then given, beginning 

 with the geological, for which Mr. Gregson reported that they had visited 

 the glacial beds in the gravel pits adjoining Thirsk Junction, and found 

 therein shap granite, encrinital limestone, several water- worn gryphese, 

 also Cristellaria rotulata, and Astarte striato-sulcata. The party then 

 drove to the western escarpment of the Hambleton hills, where they 

 investigated sections of the middle and lower oolites, and also some of the 

 upper liassic strata. The middle oolites are represented in the 

 face of the cliff by about 30 feet of Oxford clay, between 100 feet 

 of calcareous grits above, and the same thickness of Kelloway rock 

 below. They succeeded in finding several species of Belemnites, 

 Ammonites communis, A. Boulbiensis, Gryphea incurva, G. convoluta, 

 Grevillia erosa, Pleuromya granata, P. contracta, Leda galathea, 

 Rhynchonella plicatissima, Pecten substriatus, &c. Mr. W. Eagle 

 Clarke, secretary of the Vertebrate Section, reported that the only 

 observations in ornithology had been those made at Leckby Carr 

 by Mr. Robert Lee, who had seen thirteen common residents — the 

 starling, rook, jackdaw, magpie, goldcrest, wood pigeon, meadow pipit, 

 redbreast, yellow-hammer, common bunting, blue-tit, chaffinch, and lap- 

 wing. Of other vertebrata had been observed, both at Leckby Carr and 

 Pilmoor, the squirrel, weasel, water vole, toad, frog, and common or 

 smooth newt. In the absence of the officers of the Conch ological Section, 

 Mr. Wm. Denison Roebuck stated that shells had been collected by each 

 of the three parties out during the day, but that the total list was only a 

 meagre one. Mr. Soppitt and hin.solf, who had visited Pilmoor, Braf- 

 ferton Spring Wood, and the lanes north-west of Raskelf, had not been 

 as successful as they expected, having only found 16 species and varie- 

 ties, viz. : — Planorbis complanatus, P. corneus, P. contortus, Limnea 

 truncatuia, Arion ater and var. rufus, A. hortensis, Limax agrestis and 

 Mr. Butterell's newly-described var. niger ; Vitrina pellucida, Zonites 

 alliarius, Helix nemoralis, H. cantiana, H. hispida. Vertigo pygmsea, 

 and Cochlicopa lubrica. Mr, W. Foggitt obtained, at Leckby Carr, 

 specimens of Helix hortensis, H. cantiana, and H. hispida. Mr. Percy 

 Lund, of Ilkley, and some of the Eipon members, who had had the 

 advantage of collecting upon calcareous soil — the slopes of the oolitic 

 escarpments above Gormire Lake, — obtained Zonites cellarius. Helix 

 nemoralis, H. hortensis, H. arbustorum, H. cantiana, H. hispida, H. 

 rotundata, H. lapicida, Bulimus obscurus, Clausilia rugosa, and C. 

 laminata. In the absence of the officers of the Entomological Section, 

 there was no report given, but from statements made by various mem- 



