NOTES — COLEOPTERA AND BOTANY. 



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Grimshaw and W. C. Scott as Honorary Assistant Secretaries, each 

 of whom has taken charge of a definite branch of work which would 

 otherwise have fallen as of old upon the Honorary Secretaries. 



The Presidency of the Union for 1888 has been offered to 

 and accepted by a well-known Yorkshire geologist, intimately 

 connected with the district in which the present annual meeting is 

 being held, and in Mr. Wilfrid H. Hudleston, M.A., F.R.S., who is 

 one of the Secretaries of the Geological Society of London and an 

 Editor of the Geological Magazine, and whose monographic papers 

 on the palaeontology of the Oolitic Rocks of Yorkshire are so well- 

 known, we have a worthy successor in the series of distinguished 

 Yorkshiremen who have for the past ten years presided over the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union. 



In conclusion, the Executive have to express a regret, which will 

 be unanimously shared by the members, that Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey 

 could not honour the Union by accepting the ofiice of President for 

 the customary second year. They have also to express gratification 

 at the success which has, under Sir Ralph's presidency, attended the 

 proceedings of the Union during the past year. 



NOTE— COLEOPTERA. 



Quedius longicornis at Hartlepool. — I have recently had some beetles 

 returned from my friend Mr. W. (j, Ijlatch, of Birmingham, to whom I had sent 

 them to name, and amongst others of less note I was pleased to observe three 

 specimens of the rare species Qziedius Io77gicor)iis Kr. , which were captured on 

 our sandhills during last summer. This is new to the Northumberland and Durham 

 list, not appearing in Bold's Coleoptera of the two counties, and is a valuable 

 addition. — ^J. Gardner, 8, Friar Terrace, Hartlepool, 20th March, 1888. 



NOTE— BOTANY. 



Some Ingleton Plants.— I send the names of a few of the plants we used to 

 find in the neighbourhood of Ingleton fifteen or twenty years ago. It will be very 

 interesting to me to hear whether they are still to be found. 



In the ' Helks,' the large wood below the Thornton Falls, Convallaria inajalis 

 was abundant, Polygonatuni itniltijlorufii rather uncommon, while the 'find' was 

 the Daphne niezereiuji ; though I am not aware of any other place in the North of 

 England where it is said to be really wild, I think it was so here. 



On some rocks above Thornton Force a root oi Aspleniiim gernianicuvi has been 

 found. 



In King's Dale on the side of Gragreth was a solitary clump of Epilobuim 

 hirsuhim, and Aspidiinn lonchitis has been found on the neighbouring rocks, though 

 very uncommon. 



On the way to the Ingleton Falls I have found Pinquicula vulgaris. Primula 

 farinosa, Trollijis etii-opams, Polypodiuni dryopteris, and P. phegopleris. 



Ophrys muscifera has been met with between, I think, the two rivers. 



On an old wall between Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale the Ceicrach ojiiitiarnni 

 used to grow. — R. E. Lp:ach, M.A., St. Mary's Cottage, Bcccles, Suffolk, March 

 9th, 1888. 



April 1888. 



