Bepods of ^Sociciics. 



Heckmondwike Naturalists' Society. — Meeting, January 26tli, 1884* 

 —The president fMr. J. A. Erskine Stuart) gave an interesting report on 

 the natural history of the month, exhibiting a variety of floral specimens, 

 wild and from the garden, forwarded by Dr. C. Stuart, of Clirinside, 

 Berwick. Reports of local ornithology and botany were also given by 

 the members ; amongst other records was that of a thrush's nest, con- 

 taining four eggs, having been found on Dec. 24th, 1883, at Overthorpe, 

 near Thornhill. The president afterwards read a paper on Diseases of 

 Plants." 



HuDDEESFiELD IsTaiuralists' Society. — Meeting, Feb. 16th, Mr. J. 

 Shaw in the chair, — Mr. T. W, Woodhead named a number of plants in 

 flower. Mr. Mosley stated that he had just returned from Rainworth 

 Lodge, in jS^ottinghamshire, where he had been staying, sketching var- 

 ieties of birds from the very rich collection of the owner, Mr. T. 

 Whitaker, F.L.S., for the purpose of publishing figures of them in his 

 work on ^'British Birds." He exhibited his sketch book, containing 

 over 70 figures, most of them exceedingly rich ; he also exhibited an egg 

 of the tufted duck, presented to him by Mr. Whitaker, and taken on the 

 ponds at Bain worth Lodge, the only place in Britain where this bird is 

 known regularly to breed. 



Maxchester Cryftogamic Society. — Dr. B. Carrington, F.R.S.E., 

 in the chair. — The hon. sec. exhibited Continental specimens (in fruit) of 

 Tortula pahidosa, a species of moss which has recently been added to the 

 British flora, barren specimens of the same having been found in Wales. 

 The Continental specimens have been gathered by Dr. J. B. Wood and 

 Professor W. P. Schimper, in Switzerland, 1872. Mr. W. H. Pearson 

 read a short paper on a collection of Hepatics from Norway and Sweden, 

 which had been sent to him by Prof. N. C. Kindberg, of Sweden ; 

 altogether, about 60 species, were enumerated, amongst the rarest being 

 Gymnomitvium coralloides, Scapania suhalpina, Jung. Kunzei, and J. 

 saxicola. Specimens were then distributed by Mr. Pearson ; he also 

 exhibited specimens of Scapania irrigua (new to Derbyshire), collected 

 at Kinder on November last, by Messrs. Whitehead and Holt. Mr. 

 Pearson brought before the the notice of the society Professor Masso- 

 lengo's recent work on the Uridinece Verenensis. Mr. Cash exhibited a 

 moss new to Europe, Fontinalis Ravani, which had been discovered in 

 1882, and sent to him by M. de Buysson, a French corresponding 

 member of the society. The moss appears to have a more delicate habit 

 than any British species of the genus. Mr. Stanley exhibited under 

 the microscopic, the spores and spore cases of Selaginella ; he also exhib- 

 ited a micro-photograph of Thomas Brittain, a former vice-president of 

 the society. Mr, George Burgess exhibited a number of fre&hly gathered | 

 mosses from Ingleton and Derbyshu'e. — T. Rogers, Hon. Sec. ' 



