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(type, major, and minor), one, three, four, and five-banded— all at Gras- 

 sington. H . hortensis, fi\^e-banded, Grassington ; B. lapicida, very- 

 common at Grassington on the walls ; ditto, minor (?) ; H. rufescens 

 common — one contortion with spire much raised ; ditto alba, Gras- 

 sington^ on walls ; H. hispida common ; B. sericea and B. acideata, 

 Ilkley ; B . rotundata common everywhere ; B. rupestris on walls at 

 Grassington ; Bidimus ohscurus, Ilkley ; Pupa (?) Grassington ; Balea 

 perversa, Grassington Bridge, on walls ; Clausilia lammata, Ilkley ; C. 

 nigricans common ; ditto did^ia, Grassington ; Zna luhrica, var. luhri- 

 coides, Ilkley ; Succinea pntris, the Lythe at Grassington ; Limncea peregra, 

 Grassington ; Ancylus jiumatilis, ditch at Burnsall ; Cyclostorna elegans, 

 on a bank between Grassington and Burnsall, a few yards from the river 

 (dead shells) ; Helix cantiana and H. aspersa, common shells on the 

 sandstone — seem to be absent or rare. Mammals. — One- shrew Sorex 

 aranens, caught near Bolton ; one bat, not identified, caught at Hebden ; 

 hedgehog at Grass Wood. Plants. — Lathrcea scpiamaria in flower at 

 Bolton ; oxlip (Primula elatior) in flower at Barden. — George Roberts, 

 Lofthouse, May 18th, 1883. 



lii^podB of Sonelus. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — May 8th, Mr. T. Lister, president, 

 in the chair. In the Botanical and Entomological Sections not much of 

 importance was added to former reports. The list of spring migrants 

 nearly completed by the following dates : — Whinchat, reported near 

 Wakefield, April 2nd ; Bay's wagtail, 11th ; redstart, 18th ; nightjar, 

 16th ; sand martin (in flocks), 22nd ; sedge warbler, 28th ; grass-hopper 

 warbler, 30th ; sandpiper, 28th (partial migrant) ; stone-chat, 18th 

 (partial migrant) ; land-rail. May 1st (killed by telegraph wire) ; lesser 

 whitethroat, first heard May 7th. Several scaup ducks, a few wild geese, 

 coots, kingfishers, observed about the pools and streams. — Thomas 

 Lister. 



Beverley Field Naturalists' and Scientific Society. — The above 

 Society have held a most successful conversazione and exhibition in the 

 Norwood Rooms during the week ending 21st April, and we regret that 

 space will not permit of a lengthened account of it. The exhibits were 

 included under the following heads : — natural history, art and archaeology, 

 scientific apparatus, geology and microscopes. Several interesting lectures 

 were delivered during the week, including — on the Boulder Clay, by Rev. 



E. M. Cole ; on Coal Gas, by Mr. E. Bryan ; on the Chalk, by Rev. E. 

 M. Cole, and on the Wold -dwellers, by Dr. Stephenson. 



Fortnightly Meeting, 3rd May, the president, Mr. J. A. Ridgway, 



F. R.A.S., in the chair. The following presentations to the Society 

 were announced, and thanks voted to the donors :— Three pamph- 

 lets, on the White Chalk of Yorkshire," on ''the Red Chalk," 

 and '' the Origin and Formation of the Wold Dales," by the Rev. R. 



