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exhibited eggs of three species of sea-birds. Mr. Soppitt reported a visit 

 to Windermere and Grange, where he found Cochharm anglica, Vicia 

 sativa, &c. ; he also described a visit to Goit Stock . Mr. Carter described 

 a visit to Grange, where he found Qeraniivm sanguineum, the rock rose, 

 common barberry, iSphayimm papillosum ^ S. acutifolium, &c. Mr, Bean- 

 land showed a number of plants from Goole, among which were Allium, 

 scorodoprasnm,, Carex vulpina, C. riparia, Comarum palustre, &c. Mr. 

 Spencer exhibited Ordiis Morio from Grange. Mr. West reported a visit 

 to Scawfell, where he observed Thalictrum minus, Trollius Europmis^ 

 tSaxifraga stellaris, Plantago lacustris, Salix herbacea, Carex rigida, &c. 

 Mr, Eastwood exhibited Saxifraga gramdata, &c. , from Holden Wood. 



Meeting, June I7th, 1884, Mr. Soppitt in the chair. — Mr. Carter 

 reported a ramble to Holden Wood, Mr. Bennett reported a visit to 

 Broughton Woods, Lines., where he found the lily of the valley abundant. 

 Mr. Soppitt exhibited, on behalf of Mr. Hebden, y^cidium convallartoi, 

 growing on the lily of the valley ; Mr. B. Spencer, a monstrous form of 

 Geum rivals, in which one flower, instead of stamens has another flower 

 growing from the centre, and a daisy, with small flowers growing out of 

 one large one ; Mr. Barraclough exhibited Cardamine pratensis with 

 twelve petals, and described a number of plants he had observed about 

 Bolton Woods ; Mr. Carter, Carabus glabratus, collected by Mr. West on 

 Helvellyn, C. violaceus, C. nitens, and EarpaUis proteus from Rombald's 

 Moor ; Mr. Terry, a number of moths from Witherslack ; L. marginata 

 and V. cambricaria from Holden Wood. Mr. B. Spencer read a paper on 

 "Plant Lore," in which he gave an account of the origin of the wearing 

 of flowers as emblems, &c.,— especially the rose, thistle, shamrock, and 

 leek, — in the British Isles, and the various flowers used as emblems by 

 other nations of Europe. Mr. Illingworth described a visit to Grange, 

 and exhibited a number of plants collected there, including Orcids 

 maculata, Osmunda regalis, &c. 



Hull Field Naturalists' Society. — On June 14th the third excur- 

 sion of this society took place, when upwards of sixty members and 

 friends proceeded by road and rail to Hornsea. The party assembled at 

 Hornsea Bridge Station, on arrival of the train leaving Hull at 2.5, and 

 after short preliminary addresses on the chief characteristics of the 

 locality and the species which miglit be expected to be found, three divi- 

 sions were formed for investigating different portions of the ground. The 

 geological party proceeded to the beach, and inspected the sections formed 

 by the washing away of the cliffs, observing in one place the remains of 

 an old lake basin. A number of striated and polished boulders rharacter- 

 istic of the boulder clay of the neighbourhood were also seen. The botan- 

 ical and zoological sections visited the neighbourhood of the Mere. The 

 botanists observed 157 species of plants, amongst the most interesting of 

 which may be named two orchids, O. ustrdata and 0. incaniaia and 

 the adder's tongue fern, Ophioglossum vulgatiim. The entomologists 

 met with moderate success, specimens of twelve species being taken. The 



