N.B.— The Authors alone are responsible for the contents of their Papers. 



" XeC TEMERE NEC TIMIDE." 



[PBICE FOURPENCE, POST PRES.] 



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JOUENAL OF THE YOEKSHIRE ^NATURALISTS' UNIOX, 

 GEREB&L FIELD GLUB SECORD. 



NEW SERIES 



Edited by Chas. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., and G. T. Porritt, F.L.S. 



No. XCIII. APRIL, 1883. VOL. VIII. 



CONTENTS. 



Page. 



Original Articles, &c. : — 



On the Present State of our Knowledge of the Geography of British 



Plants.— J^. Gilbert Baker, F.E.S., d-c. ... ... 129 



Notes, &c. :— 



Otters in Halifax Parish ... 135 



Bird-Xotes from Newton Kyme, near Tadcaster ... ... 136 



Notices of Books ... ... 136 



EAINFALL FOR FEBRUAKr ... ... ... 137 i 



Eeports of Societies : — 



Bamsley Natvtralists' Society 137 



Beverley Field Natxualists' and Scientific Society 137 



Malton Naturalists'- Society 138 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society 138 



St. Thomas's Field Naturalists' Society, York 138 



Lancashire and Cheshire Entomological Society • ... 139 



Yorkshire Naturalists' Union.— Selby 139 



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