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Petty : Cuinherland Birds, lyoy. 



hcterophvlluSy and Lycopus europceiis \ and just outside Leeds, on 

 A del Moor near the Reformatory, Chrysantheimim segetum. 



The conchological party was led by the Leeds Conchological 

 Club, represented by Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F.L. S., and its 

 secretary, Mr. F. Booth, and investigated Bramley Fall Wood, 

 the well-known habitat of Hyalinia excavata. The weather, so 

 favourable for the garden party, w^as by reason of dryness 

 inimical to conchological work, but nevertheless the shell was 

 found, and a colony of fine examples oi Atwji ater var. pliimbea, 

 with one A. siibfuscus. 



The o-eological party started from Meanwood tram terminus, 

 and was led by the Rev. W. Lower Carter, M.A., F.G.S. In 

 Monkbridge Road was seen a curious section of Canister beds, 

 overlain by great numbers of blocks of Canister, ver)^ angular 

 and of various sizes, and laying in various directions. These 

 may be due to glacial action, though they have only been 

 broken off from the underlying beds. The sections exposed in 

 Messrs. Rowley & Co. 's Canister quarries were examined. 

 Here numbers of erect tree trunks, often in very good condition, 

 are found from time to time, a fine specim.en having just been 

 taken to the surface. Specimens of Sti'gmaria were very 

 common. The chief interest of this section lies in the bed of 

 clay, full of stones of local origin, overlying the Canister beds. 

 This clay is considered to be of glacial origin, but its real cause 

 and significance have given rise to much discussion among-st 

 local geologists. An eminent geologist present said that this 

 section and the Balby boulder clay afi^orded the two great 

 puzzles in the glacial geology of Yorkshire. The Canister beds 

 are traversed by a small thrust-fault, which was finely seen in 

 parts of the quarry. 



Cumberland Birds, 1707. — On 8th July, 1707, Bishop 

 Nicolson was at Cardornock, near Bowness-on-Solway, and 

 writes in his diary under that date : — ' Amongst the sea fowl the 

 most remarkable were the Larus maximus ex albo et nigro 

 varius ; and the Pica marina, with a young one, which run 

 (prodigiously fast) on the edge of the tide.' The first bird is 

 Larus marinus L. (the Creat Black-backed Cull), and the second 

 the Oyster-catcher [Hcematopus ostralegiis L.). Trans. Cumb. 

 and Westm. Antiq. and Archseol. Soc, Vol. 4, N.S., 1904, p. 5. 

 I have to thank Mr. T. H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., for kindly con- 

 firming the naming-. — S. L. Petty, Ulverston, 6th June 1904. 



Naturalist, 



