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The following assisted in making the arrangements and 

 acted as guides to some of our meetings : — Rev. J. Cow ley 

 Fowler, B.A., F.G.S., Messrs. T. J. Cozens, H. Frankland, 

 H. T. Hallimond, S. H. Harries and J. W. R. Punch. 



On the occasion of the Westerdale Meeting Mr. and Mrs. 

 C. Hood kindly entertained the party to tea. 



A special meeting was held to investigate the Marine Fauna 

 on Saltscar Rocks, Redcar, in September, when the President 

 (Mr. H. Simpson) made the arrangements and acted as guide 

 The meeting was a successful one in every way. At the 

 conclusion the President hospitably entertained the party 

 to luncheon at Redcar. 



Permission was granted to visit estates belonging to the 

 Marquis of Normanby, The Earl of Zetland, Messrs. W. H. A. 

 Wharton, Newcomen and Lowther. Your thanks are also 

 due to Mr. Wynne Finch, for permission to visit his 

 property at ' ' Stanley Grove,' ' and also for placing a workman 

 at our disposal to assist in the " hunt " for " iron pan." 



A Yorkshire Naturalists' Union Meeting was held at Guis- 

 borough in August, and was in every way successful. Mr. 

 J. J. Burton was local secretary for the meeting, and others 

 of our members assisted in the arrangements. About fifteen 

 of our members attended the meeting. 



Winter Meetings. — Since the last Annual Meeting Eight 

 Winter Meetings have been held ; this series being one of the 

 most successful we have had. With one exception (the Y.N.U. 

 Lecture by Mr. Bayford) the whole of the papers have been 

 given or the arrangements made by our own members. 



The attendance, with one or two exceptions, was good, the 

 Saturday evening meetings especially being well attended. 

 The papers read were as follows : — " A Chat about Beetles," 

 by Mr. E. G. Bayford, this being a Y.N.U. Lecture ; ' ' Smugg- 

 ling days at Marske," by the Rev. F. Grant James, a most 

 interesting and amusing paper ; ' ' Among wild plants in 

 Teesdale," by Mr. J. T. Cozens, with lantern illustrations; 

 "Colour," by Mr. Geo. B. Walsh, B.Sc, illustrated by 

 experiments and sketches ; ' ' The Origin of the Cleveland 



