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productive entomological localities of Green Farm Wood and Sandal 

 Beat, for which permission had been most kindly granted by Capt. Brown, 

 Mr. Winter Cockill, and Mr. Councillor Brundell. Parties left Doncaster 

 station at 9.15 and 10.15 a.m. for those places, under the charge of 

 Messrs. George Tindall and M. H. Stiles. Other parties left at the same 

 hours, under the guidance of Mr. J. M. Kirk and Dr. J. Mitchell Wilson, 

 for Potteric Carrs ; and bodies of members explored othe|^i localities in an 

 independent manner, one taking the Gravel Drain and other dykes 

 •towards the borders of Lincolnshire, and others the old level of Hatfield 

 Chase. All these parties, as will be noticed, were designed for the 

 exploration of the districts lying east and north-east of the town. For 

 the geologists, however, these districts ofi"ered no special points of 

 interest, and a party was organized under the leadership of Mr. T. H. 

 Easterfield, for Balbey, Warmsworth and Conisborough. A-ll parties met 

 at tea at 4-30 p.m., at the Angel Hotel, and afterwards the business of 

 the sectional and general meetings was transacted at the Guildhall. At 

 the general meeting Mr. J. W. Davis, F.S.A., F.L.S., &c., one of the 

 vice-presidents, was voted into the chair. The minutes of the Thirsk 

 meeting, last year, were read by Mr. Wrigglesworth (who, in the absence 

 of Mr. Clarke, assisted Mr. Roebuck in discharging the duties of the 

 secretariate), and confirmed. The roll of the 38 societies in the Union 

 being called over, it was found that the following 20 were represented : — 

 Barnsley, Bradford (3), Dewsbury, Doncaster, Driffield, Elland-cum- 

 Greetland, Goole, Halifax, Huddersfield (2), Hull, Leeds (3), Ovenden, 

 Sheffield, Wakefield, and York St. Thomas. Of individual members the 

 attendance was about 60 or 70. Two new societies — the Bradford Micro- 

 scopical Society, 61 members, and Rotherham Naturalists' Society, 63 

 members — and three new members — Mr. R. W. Kendall of Selby, Mr. 

 P. W. Dawson of HuH, and Mr. H. S. Ward of Bradford, — were elected, 

 A vote of thanks was then proposed by Mr. C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., of 

 Huddersfield, and seconded by Mr. Thomas Lister of Barnsley, and 

 unanimously adopted, to Capt. Brown, Mr. Winter Cockill, Mr. Coan. 

 Brundell, Mr. Senior, Mr. Gibson, Mr. Dearden, and Messrs. Crawshaw 

 and Son, for permission to visit their respective estates or works, and to 

 the Doncaster Microscopical Society and its members for their co- 

 operation and assistance. The reports of the sections were then taken. 

 Mr. Thomas Lister of Barnsley, who had presided over the Vertebrate 

 Section, with Mr. Thomas Bunker of Goole acting for the secretary (in 

 the absence of both the sectional officers) stated that 17 summer migrants 

 and 28 resident birds had been noted, and also four mammals, no reptiles, 

 three amphibians, and four fishes. The migrant birds were — the white- 

 throat, sedge warbler, swift (numerous), swallow, martin, landrail, 

 whinchat, willow warbler, wood warbler, blackcap warbler, tree pipit 

 (numerous), chiflchaff', cuckoo (abundant), yellow or Ray's wagtail, 

 nightingale, and spotted flycatcher (seen by Mr. Bunker on the borders 

 of Hatfield Chase). The residents were the skylark, meadow pipit. 



