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Winter Meetings.— Five meetings were fixed for the Winter 

 Session, four of which have already been held. There has 

 been a good attendance of our members at all the meetings, 

 especially seeing that the weather on three out of the four 

 nights was of the worst description, we seeming to be 

 singularly unfortunate in this respect. 



The first meeting was held in the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society's Hall, on Saturday, November 7th, when a paper was 

 given by Mr. T. W, Woodhead, F.L.S., entitled " Natural 

 History of Water Plants." The Lecture was open to Lit. and 

 Phil, members, and a fairly large audience attended (especially 

 so having regard to the state of the weather, the night being 

 very foggy and cold), our members being very well repre- 

 sented, members attending from Eedcar, Saltburn, Stockton, 

 Middlesbrough, etc. 



The Lecturer traced the histoiy and development of water 

 plants from primitive forms, and gave very graphic descriptions 

 of the development of certain plants, illustrating their adapta- 

 tion to circumstances, their means of propagating their species, 

 etc., under often very adverse conditions. 



The paper was illustrated by means of Lantern slides, some 

 of which were exceptionally fine. 



The Lecture being one of the Y N.U. series, the Lecturer 

 at the conclusion laid before our members and others the 

 desirability of supporting the Union by becoming members, 

 and thus further the aims and objects of the Union in 

 exploring and publishing the various fauna and flora of the 

 County. A vote of thanks was proposed by the President of 

 the Lit. and Phil. (Mr. F. H. Marshall), seconded by our 

 Vice-President (Mr. T. F. Ward), and carried unanimously. 



On December 3rd the second Lecture was delivered by Mr. 

 Percy F. Kendall, F.G.S. (ex-President Y.N U ), his subject 

 being entitled, " Early Man and his Relation to the Ice Age." 

 There was a good attendance of our members, and the paper 

 proved to be a most instructive and interesting one. It was 

 well illustrated by means of a good series of slides. Mr. 

 Kendall traced the succession of races of man iu the South 

 of England by means principally of the flint and metal 

 instruments used in the chase, beginning with the iron and 

 bronze weapons and tracing backwards to the very rudest form 

 of flint arrow heads. He also treated on the course of events 



