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birds not included in last report. On April 20th, the wryneck is reported 

 by Mr. Hailstone^ at Walton Hall. Tliis migrant has been seldom noted 

 in this district. May 9th, the swift ; 6th, black-cap warbler ; 14th, 

 garden warbler, wood warbler, nightingale, spotted flycatcher. Mr. 

 Parkin wrote, last week in May, that a nightingale was nearer to Barnsley 

 than recorded of late years. On May 11th, Mr. Creighton wrote 

 reporting the wax -wing in a garden at Hemsworth, and the black redstart 

 in front of Hemsworth Hall ; the black-headed gull, sparrow hawks,, 

 kestrels, and jays. The lesser tern was found dead in a field near Peni- 

 stone. The ringed dotterel and curlew have occurred on the pools near 

 the moors this spring. The sandpipers are breeding there, and in the 

 Dearne valley. — T. Lister. 



Beverley Field Naturalists' and Scientific Society. — The 

 ordinary meeting, 18th May, the president, Mr. J. A. Ridgway, in the 

 chair. — After some discussion it was decided to hold field meetings every 

 Wednesday evening, for the exploration of the immediate neighbourhood 

 of the town, in addition to the ordinary meetings of the society, and a 

 number of afternoon excursions are also to be organised. A letter was 

 read from Thos. Bainton, Esq. , of Arram Hall, reporting the arrival of 

 the pied flycatcher on May 7th, and a number of interesting botanical 

 specimens were shown by Mr. J. J. Marshall, amongst which were 

 Hottoniu palustris, Geum rivah, Luzula campestris, Valeriana dioica, 

 Ra^nmculus auricomus, Bunium Jlexuosum, and others. Mr. Butterell 

 exhibited a series of Unio pictorum, and U. tumidus from the river Hull, 

 the edible snail Helix pomatia, and also specimens of the snail-slug Tes- 

 tacella haliotidea found in Beverley, and probably the first time it has 

 been recorded for Yorkshire. 



Huddersfield Naturalists' Society. — Meeting June 18th, Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, F.L.S,, in the chair, — The chairman exhibited a new British 

 moss, Brymn gemmiparum, discovered in Breconshire by Rev. Augustin 

 Ley, and hitherto found only in the extreme south of Europe. A large 

 collection of local grasses was exhibited by Mr. A. Clarke, who had 

 adopted a new system of naming. It consisted in having the London 

 Catalogue No., the natural order, the Linnsean class, and the name, 

 neatly written upon a card and laid upon the table along with the 

 specimen. This system was considered by all present to be a great 

 improvement upon the old one of simply calling out the names. Mr. 

 Mosley exhibited a series of Meliphora alveariella, a species very destruc- 

 tive to the combs of the honey bee. He also showed samples of injured 

 comb, with cocoons of the moth. Mr. Simeon Kaye read a paper on 

 " The Medical Properties of Plants. "~S. L. M. 



Manchester Cryptogamic Society. — Mr, W. H. Pearson in the 

 chair. — Mr. W, Stanley exhibited specimens of Cephalozia fluitans from 

 Staleybrushes, being a new locality for this hepatic, and Discelium nudum 

 from the neighbourhood of Mottram. Mr. Pearson exhibited and 



