NOTES AND NEWS, 



Entomology. — Mr. F. N. Dobree, Beverley, president (re-elected) ; Z\Iessrs. 

 G. C. Dennis (re-elected) and S. Walker, both of York, secretaries. 



Botany. — Mr. F. Arnold Lees, Heckmondwike, president ; Mr. P. F. Lee, 

 Dewsbury, and B. Slater, Malton, secretaries (both re-elected). 



Geology. — Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., Wetwang, president ; Messrs. S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., Leeds, and S. Chadwick, Malton, secretaries (all re- 

 elected). 



Micro-Zoology and Botany.— Dr. H. C. Sorby, F.R.S., Sheffield, president; 

 Mr. J. Kirk, Doncaster, secretary (both re-elected). 



Afterwards tea was served in the Wesleyan School-room in 

 Wellington Road, and at 7 p.m. the Annual Public Meeting of 

 the Members and Associates was held in the Industrial Hall, when 

 there was a very large attendance. The chair was taken by the 

 president, Dr. Dallinger, who, after the annual report had been 

 read and the excursion programme announced for the benefit 

 of the members generally, delivered the annual address. He took 

 for his subject, ' My latest Lenses, and their most recent Work,' and 

 the lecture was illustrated by a large number of lantern-sHdes. 

 During the delivery of the address the chair was occupied by Mr. 

 C. P. Hobkirk, F.L.S., president of the Dewsbury Naturalists' 

 Society. A vote to the president was adopted on the motion of 

 Dr. Sorby, seconded by the Mayor of Dewsbury (Mr. Aid. T. B. 

 Fox) ; and afterwards a similar compliment to Mr. Hobkirk and 

 the Dewsbury Society, on the proposition of Dr. Dallinger and the 

 Rev. W. Fowler. 



In connection with the visit of the Union to Dewsbury, the 

 local society had organized an excellent conversazione, which 

 engaged the attention of the members and friends for the remainder 

 of the evening. This included a grand display of more than fifty 

 microscopes, numerous stereoscopes, collections of agates, plants, 

 shells, minerals, coins, birds' eggs, photographs, etc. Among tlie 

 more special exhibits. Dr. Sorby showed a series of his own drawings 

 of river and coast scenery in East Anglia, and a fine series of some 

 of the most exquisite drawings of lepidopterous larvae by the late 

 William Buckler, which are to be published by tlie Ray Society. 



NOTES AND NEWS, 



We are very pleased to see the evidence of scientific vigour in Thirsk, as 

 evidenced firstly by the successful establishment of the Thirsk and District 

 Naturalists' Field Club, which held its first annual meeting on the 4th of April, 

 and secondly by the appearance of The Falcon, a well-\\ ritten and eminently useful 

 monthly periodical of local information of all kinds. We note that local natural 

 history and the proceedings of the natural history societies in the North Riding of 

 Yorkshire occupy a fair share of the attention of the conductor of The Falioii, 

 which thoroughly deserves appreciation and success. 



May 1887. 



