BOTANY. — The Botanical Section will be officially represented. 
Mosses and Hepatics. — The Yorkshire Bryological Committee will be 
officially represented by by Mr. C. A. Cheetham. 
Mr. R. Barnes writes : — The district to be investigated offers many advantages 
to the bryologist, and will be found well worth exploring, and especially so in re- 
gard to species preferring a sandstone or clay formation. Any of the little glens 
between the Esk and the Tees will be found intensely interesting. The following 
is a list of the rarer Mosses and Hepatics known to occur in that district : — Georgia 
Brownii^ Polyirichiun aloides var. Dicksoni, Fissidens exilis, Fissidens exigttics, 
Fissidens viridnltis^ Fissidens incurvus var. tafiiarindif alius, Fissidens fontanus, 
Fissidens cristaitis, Archidiuvi alle?7iifolinni, Pleuridinm axilla^iSy Pleuridiuin 
alternifolitim, Ditrichmn homo?nallum, Dicranella crispa, Dicranella secunda, 
Anisothecitun rufescens, Anisothecium crisptitn, Anisotheciiim crispum var. elatnm, 
Aniso(heciu?H squarrosum cum fructu^ Brachydoniium trichodes, Dicranum fusces- 
cens, Dicrantim Scoitii, Oncophorus Bruntoni, Ephemerum serratufn, Acaitloji 
muticum, Torttda aloides, Tottula marginata, Tortula augustata^ Tortula ?nutica, 
Tortula papulosa, MoUia crispa, Mollia squarrosa, Mollia rutilans, Mollia tenuis, 
Mollia tenuirostris, Barbtila htrida cum fructu, Glyphomitrium polyphyllum , 
Glyphomitriufn saxicola, AncEciatigiufn mougeoiii, Zygodon stittoni, Orthotrichum 
stta7nineum, Orthotrichutn tenellum, Orihoirichtan ptilchellu?n, Weissia tilophylla 
var. crispula, Weissia phyllantha, Schistostega osmundacea, Pohlia aitnotina, Bryii?n 
lactistre, Mnitun pseudopiindatum, Amblystegium irrigtnim, Amblystegitwi varium, 
Amblystegiiim kochii, A^nblysiegium polygamum, Ambysiegium ochraceum, Hypmnn 
ccespitostivi,' Hypnum pallidirostre, hypnu?n crassinefve, Hypmim Teesdalei, Hypmun 
glareosum cum fructu, Hypnu7n plumosu7n var. Mildei cu7n fructu, Hypyiutn 
flagellare, Stereodon polyaftihos, Isopterygiiim depressutn, Plagioihecium latebficola. 
Hepatics. — Blepharozia pulcherri?7ta, Kantia arguta, Cephalozia cate7iulata, Cepha- 
lozia pallida, Cephalozia ctu-vifolia, Cephalozia Francisci, Hygrobiella laxifolia. 
CONCHOLOGY.— The Conchological Section will be represented by Mr. 
W. Harrison- Hutton. 
ENTOMOLOGY.— 
Coleoptera. — The Coleoptera Committee will be represented by its chairman, 
Mr. M. L. TTiompson, F. E.S. 
Mr. M. L. Thompson writes : — The following beetles have been taken in the 
neighbourhood of Runswick and Staithes : Gyfnmisa brevicollis, Ocypus 7norio, 
Diafious cierulescejis, Gecdro?ni^us 7iigrita, Ancyrophorus 07nali7ius, A. aureus, 
Choleva velox, Lvnonius 7ninutus, Ca7?ipylus linearis, Dasytes (vrostis, Polydrusus 
conflueiis, and Hypera vaiiabilis. It is a good opportunity for working the sea- 
shore for the species of Dyschiritis and Bleditis (burrowing in the sands), Hetero- 
thops biyiotata, species of Cafius, Myr7necopora iivida, M. sulcata (under seaweed), 
and the curious little Aepus 7naiinus (beneath masses of Zostera), at high water- 
mark. 
PROGRAMME OF MEETINGS.— 
5 p m. prompt, Meat Tea, i/6 each, \ 
5-30 p.m., Sectional Meetings, At the Runswick Bay Hot>el. 
5-40 p.m., General Meeting ; 
Trains for Whitby, Scarbro', Malton, York, etc., leave at 6-25 p.m. 
6-25 p.m. 
Trains for Saltburn, Middlesbro,' at 5-44 and 9-1 1 p.m. 
Members must consult lime tables, as the train service will probably be 
improved in July. 
In order that an early account of the excursion may appear in the "Naturalist," 
notes and reports should be forwarded before July i8th to the Secretary of the 
Y.N.U., the Museum, Hull. 
