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the level to which many of our entomologists attain. He identified him- 

 self very closely with the lepidopterous fauna of Ireland, for which he 

 did a great deal, as the lists which he published in the 3rd and 10th 

 volumes of the " Entomologists' Monthly Magazine " amply shew. 

 Whilst in Ireland too, he took and had captured for him, immense 

 numbers of the local Zygoena nuhigena, which he distributed most freely 

 and generously among the cabinets throughout Britain. The genus 

 Dianthoscia was also a great favourite with him, and he paid much 

 attention to it. He was a native of Leeds, but left the town at an early 

 age, and returned to it only after many years, when his reputation had 

 been made, and his fame won in other districts, so that he never had the 

 opportunity of doing much for the lepidopterous fauna of his native 

 county. At this time, Bishop's Wood and Sherwood Forest were frequen- 

 ted by him in his collecting expeditions, and he was still a hard worker, 

 and a capital correspondent, as we know from personal experience. The 

 last few years of his life were spent in the Isle of Man, and here he 

 was successful in obtaining its famous species, such as Sesia plilanthifor- 

 mis, DiantJmcia coesia, Polia nigrocincta, &c. Latterly, he fell into bad 

 health, but even when unable to collect himself, he employed the light- 

 house keeper to send him such species as flew to and were captured at the 

 lights ; and a number of these captures he kindly presented to us when 

 we called upon him last year. For sometime he was a Fellow of the 

 Linnean Society, having been elected on the 18th of J une, 1874. He 

 died at Douglas on the 2nd of May, this year, aged 65 years. 



;Eeporis of Sorielws. 



Barnsley Naturalists' Society. — Meeting May 13th, Mr. T. Lister 

 in the chair. — A full report of the spring migrants was read. The wheat- 

 ear and willow warbler both reported March 22nd, chiffchafl" 24th, a 

 second instance April 2nd, sand martin 4th, pair of swallows 7th, 8th, 

 and 9th, the latter did not come again for several days to their breeding 

 haunts. Willow warbler noted (2nd instance) 9th, another 10th, house 

 martin 11th and 14th, whitethroat llth, redstart 13th, cuckoo seen on 

 13th, had been reported singing on the 3rd ; yellow or Ray's wagtail and 

 tree pipit 18th, grasshopper warbler 21st, sedge warbler 24th, whinchat 

 25th, spotted flycatcher 27th, blackcap warbler 30th, wood warbler May 

 I 1st, night-jar 3rd, nightingale 5th, swift 4th, landrail 7th, garden warbler 

 and lesser whitethroat 9th. With the exceptional cases in March and 

 early April, the migrants have come pretty near the average time. A few 

 rarer residents and visitors have been noted— white sparrows near the 

 Oaks Colliery and L. and Y. Station, Barnsley ; gold-crested wrens in 

 Locke Park and other places April 5th ; green and great spotted wood- 

 peckers, Nottan Park, on the 5th ; kestrel, Dodworth-road, 18th, at 

 Silkstone 22nd ; nuthatch and spotted woodpecker, Defi'er Wood ; black- 

 headed gulls and flights af common gulls and wild geese, May 1st to 7th ; 

 sparrow hawks seen. — T. L. 



