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closely and irregularly mixed. In the bog below, where Primula 
jarinosa flourished, the same phenomenon was again seen. Side by side 
with Primula farinosa, Orchis Fuchsii, Habenaria bifolia and Parnassia 
palustris, wherever the vegetation was raised above the neutral water, 
Ling occurred, and it was here that Lister a cor data was found, which 
normally grows in acid soils, under Ling or among other moorland 
plants. 
Flowering Plants (W. A. Sledge) : — The lateness of the Whitsun 
holiday, coupled with the forwardness of the vegetation, provided a 
better show of flowers in meadows and hedgerows than is usual at this 
meeting, whilst the Hawthorn, as elsewhere in the county, was every- 
where laden with blossom. The most interesting discovery was made 
during Saturday's excursion up the course of the Dee, when Festuca 
sylvatica was found in small quantity in the upper part of the Ghyll, 
This was a welcome find in view of the few localities which stand on 
record for this rare grass from the West and North Ridings. Other 
plants such as Herb Paris, Lily of the Valley, and Hart’s Tongue Fern, 
which might have been expected to occur in some plenty in this Ghyll, 
were conspicuously rare, but Toothwort was seen in more than one 
place and Scirpus compressus and Polygonum viviparum were found in 
meadows above the river. Two fruiting specimens of Adoxa moschatellina 
were also collected. 
At Colm Scar Sedum Telephium, Melica nutans and Asplenium viride 
were seen on the rocks, and in a very interesting marsh below the 
Scars the following plants were noted : — 
Oxy coccus quadripe talus Orchis elodes 
Primula farinosa O. elodes var. leucantha. 
Pinguicula vulgaris (a form with O. incarnata 
with very large flowers) Selaginella selaginoides . 
Listera cordata 
Stellaria nemorum was also seen in a hedgebank below Helmside 
Ghyll. 
GEOLOGICAL NOTES. 
The Geological Magazine for July contains a paper on ' Metamorphic 
Rocks of the Eastern Andes near Cuenca, Ecuador,’ by G. Sheppard 
and G. H. S. Bushnell. 
At a recent meeting of the Geological Society of London, Professor 
W. B. R. King and W. H. Wilcockson read a paper on ‘ The Lower 
Palaeozoic Rocks of Austwick and Ribblesdale.’ 
Dr. F. A. Bather has received the Mary Clark Thompson Medal of 
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, at 
the hands of His Excellency the American Ambassador. 
The Transactions of the Cardiff Naturalists’ Society , Volume LXIV, 
are largely occupied by an extraordinarily valuable monograph on 
From Giraldus Cambrensis to the Geological Map : ‘ The Evolution 
of a Science,’ by Dr. F. J. North. This is of considerably more than 
local interest. 
The Memoirs and Proceedings of the Manchester Literary and 
Philosophical Society, Vol. 76, recently to hand, contains two important 
papers, namely, ‘ Man’s Place in Nature as shown by Fossils,’ by Sir 
Arthur Smith Woodward, and ‘ The Relative Value of Fossil Plants in the 
Stratigraphy of the Coal Measures,’ by Dr. R. Crookall. The first is 
illustrated by a remarkable diagram showing that if the milk dentition 
of modern man were modified by the complete extrusion of the canine, 
this would resemble the permanent dentition of Piltdown man more 
closely than does the permanent dentition of any ape, such as the 
chimpanzee. The second is illustrated by some plates of coal measure 
plants, which are remarkable for their excellence. 
The Naturalist 
