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This, which must have cost the Author much time and labour, 
the Curator considers a most valuable and useful contribution. 
The Society has also received a most valuable donation of 
British flowering plants, Mosses, Lichens and Algse presented 
by Major Dalton, L.A., Deputy Assistant Quartermaster 
Deneral of Cork; his sister. Miss Maria Dalton; and Charles 
Dalton, Esq., F.E.Gr.S., in the name of their grandfather, the 
late Dev. J. Dalton, E.L.S., Rector of Croft in the County of 
York. 
Ornithological Department —But little has been done 
during the last twelve months in this department, though a 
number of specimens have been purchased for the British Birds 
Collection, including some of interest as Yorkshire killed 
rarities. 
A Red Orouse {Lagopiis Seoticus) was added from the South 
Tyne Yalley, which, although not actually of Yorkshire origin, 
is worthy of mention, owing to its peculiar plumage. To all 
appearance it is an adult hen bird assuming the male plumage, 
and consequently very richly marked. 
An unusual number of Curlew Sandpipers and Little Stints 
have frequented our coast during the autumn, and of the former 
species we have secured a pair of excellent specimens in their 
mottled autumn dress. 
Only three birds have been presented, viz. :—a beautiful 
Jackdaw’s skin, by Mr. Sidney Flower, London, and a pair of 
Sooty Shearwaters {Puffinus gviseiis)^ by Mr. J. Backhouse, Jun., 
the latter shot during the month of August, on the Yorkshire 
coast. 
Other Sooty Shearwaters have also been recorded as shot 
during the same month on our coast, to the number of eight or 
nine, which is noteworthy, seeing that some six or seven only 
of this rare South Pacific bird had (up to 1887), been recorded 
from the British Islands. 
CoNCHOLOGiCAL SECTION. —The Curatoi', feeling strongly 
the desirability of representing the Local Fauna in local 
Museums, has added to the Conchological Department a 
collection of Land and Fresh-water Shells obtained exclusively 
