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CLEVELAND NATURALISTS' FIELD CLUB. 



SECRETARY'S REPORT FOR 1904-5. 



I have pleasure in presenting to the members of the Cleveland 

 Naturalists' Field Club, the Annual Report, this being my 7th 

 Report and the 24th of the Club's existence. 



Summer Meetings. — Seven Meetings were arranged by your 

 Committee to be held during the summer months (exclusive of 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Meeting, none of which were held 

 in the immediate vicinity). 



The start was rather disastrous ; the first meeting arranged to 

 be held at Kettleness, and the second at Upleatham, had to be 

 abandoned owing to very unfavourable weather conditions. This, 

 unfortunately, did not end our misfortune in this respect, as the 

 fourth meeting, arranged for Hilton, was abandoned from the 

 same cause, and the sixth meeting at Kildale, the party only 

 arrived to spend the afternoon indoors, owing to a very heavy 

 thunderstorm coming on. If the Kilton meeting had not been 

 altered on account of the Mayor's Garden Party, we would have 

 had to chronicle yet another unfavourable day. 



It is many years since the summer programme was so interfered 

 with by the weather conditions, and this, in spite of the summer, 

 generally, being much more favourable than had been the case in 

 the two or three previous years. 



Five Meetings were held, viz. : — at Kilton, Lealholm, Kildale, 

 Eston and Kettleness, the latter being refixed again at a later 

 date. The meetings held were fairly well attended : the meetings 

 at Lealholm and Kilton Woods were the most successful. 



The thanks of the Club are due to W. H. A. Wharton, Esq., 

 Captain R. B. Turton, Lord Downe, Earl of Zetland, and the late 

 Hon. James Lowther, for permission to visit their estates, also to 

 Dr. Veitch for acting as guide of the Kettleness excursion. 



