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the opportunity of again congratulating its talented and industrious 

 author on the care and labour he has already taken in producing this 

 lasting monument of his industry and zeal in moss-lore. The plates, six 

 in number, are even superior to those previously issued, and leave 

 nothing to be desired either in detail or execution. Amongst other 

 alterations in nomenclature on Wilson's Bry. Brit., we notice that 

 Dicranum virens, 1). polycar-pum, Cynodontium Brimtoni, and Ehahdo- 

 weissia fugax are referred to OncJiophorus, which also includes 0. Wahlen- 

 hergii and var. compactus, 0. strumifer, 0. gracilescens ( Cynodontium , 

 Sch. Syn. and 0. crispatus (Weissia denticulata, Sch. Syn.) ; whilst 

 Trichostomum glaucescens becomes Sodania ccesia (Vill. ) Lindberg. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting 14th Aug., the president, 

 Mr. T. Lister, in the chair. — The new list of British birds drawn up by 

 the Ornithologists' Union was laid on the table — the standard of nomen- 

 clature so much needed to be uniformly used. Letters from Mr. R. 

 Creighton confirmed his report of May 6 that the black redstart, waxwing, 

 and greenshank all occurred near Hemsworth. There are but one or two 

 instances of the black redstart in Yorkshire, and only one of its occurring 

 in May, which was in Cornwall ; it is chiefly a winter visitor in the south- 

 west of England. Three instances of the waxwing have occurred in the 

 Barnsley district within two years. The greenshank is equally rare. He 

 also records the black-headed gull, and sandpipers at Hemsworth dam ; 

 the latter breed there, also in the Dearne valley, and at Ingbirchworth 

 and Dunford reservoirs. In excursions to Langsett and Mickleden 

 moors to the Derbyshire border, increased numbers of ring-ouzels, twites, 

 or mountain linnets (young and old), were seen, also kestrel, plovers golden 

 and green, in abundance. Curlews are reported breeding on these moors. 

 Swifts, young and old, numerous near Monk Bretton Abbey — very rare 

 in Barnsley of late years. Mr. E. Hailstone reported on July 20th, a 

 tern over Walton Lake. Hawfinches and gold-crested wrens have bred 

 at Round Green ; goldfinches at Middle wood Hall, Darfield. — T. L. 



Bradford Naturalists' Society. — Meeting July 24th, Mr. J. W. 

 Carter, the president, in the chair, — Mr. lUingworth described a ramble 

 about Witherslack, and amongst the insects he exhibited were H. auro- 

 raria, E. russnla, L. Alexis, &c. He also exhibited a live young cuckoo 

 and the tit-lark's nest in which it was taken, on Baildon Moor. Mr. Soppitt 

 exhibited a number of parasitic fungi, among which was one growing on 

 Lactuca muralis, viz, Puccinea ruhigo-vera from Hawksworth, the bird's 

 nest fungus, and a smut on Bromns mollis. Among the insects exhibited 

 by the president were, one new to the district (P. dentatus), from 

 Shipley Glen, and T. tapetzella, a small moth, the larva of which feeds on 



