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in the vicinity, though in gradually lessening numbers. Ring Ouzels 

 and Wheatears were fairly abundant; whilst the low countr)' in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Sedbergh produced a quantity of birds 

 of the commoner kinds, including all three Wagtails, Dipper, etc., etc. 

 Though the Whinchat was plentiful, we looked in vain for its cousin 

 the Stonechat, which, though fairly common on the coast a little 

 further to the north, appears to be scarce round Sedbergh, but 

 abundant again in Wensleydale. The total number of species noted 

 during the day was 35, of which only nine were summer migrants. 



The report of the Conchological Section was prepared by Mr. 

 Baker Hudson. The section had met with numerous species of 

 land shells among the mountain limestone strata of the Dovecote 

 Gill, including Zonites fulvus, Azeca tridens, Helix rupestris. Vertigo 

 pygmcea, etc. The full list, which has not yet been completed, will 

 be given in the October number. 



No report was forthcoming for the Entomological and Micro- 

 Zoological and Micro-Botanical Sections, from the absence of 

 workers. 



For the Botanical Section the report was furnished by its 

 President, Mr. F. Arnold Lees, as follows : — 



At the meeting after tea, press of time prevented a full enumera- 

 tion of the floral notabilities of a district peculiarly rich in a 

 botanical sense, because of the great diversity of surface and soil, 

 augmented by the proximity of the main Lune stream (drainirg 

 a wide mountainous area beyond Yorkshire boundaries), in the 

 valley of which species normally foreign to (unlikely to occur 

 naturally in) the district are to be found — originally brought into it 

 by water-flow, or it might be deposited by glaciers, -with the 

 boulders, the main Lune valley being one of their routes, — but now, 

 and for long (since the first record for Meu?ji here dates back to 

 Parkinson and Merrett's time, 1640-66), however they came, quite 

 at home in an environment altogether acceptable to their needs. 

 Botanico-geographically — geologically also — this strip of West York- 

 shire, drained by a river the head waters of which originate on 

 Barrowdale and Shap Fells, is a part of the Westmorland 'Lake 

 country,' so that here, if anywhere, one would expect, on the banks 

 and rocks of the main stream, to find species which occur higher 

 up in the catchment area. Some, indeed, such as Galium boreale, 

 Sedum angliciivi, Circc^a alpi?ia, Hieraciujii urnhellatum and H. 

 crocatum have already been found : whilst others, such as Hieraciiivi 

 pallidum, Polyg07ium vitipanim, Equisetum variegatum^ etc., will 

 doubtless reward a closer critical investigation in the future. Thus, 

 not a few of the botanists present made acquaintance with species 



Sept. 1887. 



