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by the same law every minute g"ully, cave, or watercourse can 

 be accounted for in tiie same way. 



The g-eological history of East Yorkshire, in common with 

 that of any other district, is one of extreme interest, and to 

 understand that history aright one must examine the various 

 documents in the field. 



Emerson has truly said : — ' Everything in nature is engaged 

 in writing its own history; the planet and the pebble are attended 

 by their shadows, the rolling rock leaves its furrows on the 

 mountain-side, the river its channel in the soil, the animal its 

 bones in the stratum, the fern and the leaf inscribe their modest 

 epitaphs on the coal, the falling drop sculptures its story on the 

 sand and on the stone — not a footstep on the snow or on the 

 ground, but traces in characters more or less enduring the record 

 of its progress.' 



To anyone in need of a hobby let me recommend geology. 

 There is always some new fact to learn, some new problem 



to solve. , „, . ^ , ^ 



' 1 here is not lost 



One of earth's charms ; upon her bosom yet, 

 After the flight of untold centuries, 

 The freshness of her far-beginning lies, 

 And yet shall live.' 



ORTHOPTBRA, 

 Panchlora exoleta at Huddersfieid. — On the i8th March 

 a specimen of this pale green Cockroach was captured in our 

 wholesale market and given to me. — W. E. L. Wattam, 

 Newsome. 







FUNGI. 



New Yorkshire Fungi. — I have to record two additions to 

 the list of Yorkshire fungi. These are Sordaria [Philocoprd) 

 pusilla Mont, and S. (Philocopra) plewspora Wint. Both species 

 were found on rabbit droppings collected in Ecclesall Wood, 

 Sheffield, in the spring of 1903. For the identification of the 

 former species I am indebted to Dr. C. B. Plowright, and 

 I understand from him that it is a Belgian species and has 

 not previously been recorded from this country. The latter has 

 only recently been found in this country, being described and 

 iigured in Messrs. Massee and Salmon's paper on ' Coprophilous 

 Fungi' in the ' Annals of Botany,' June 1901. — Thos. Gibb, 

 Wirksworth, April 1905. 



1905 May I. 



