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Permission was granted to visit estates belonging to J. J. 

 Emmerson, Esq., R. B. Turton, Esq., W. H. A. Wharton, Esq., 

 Sir B. Samuelson & Co., Ld., and Joseph Constantine, Esq., 

 and the thanks of the Club are due to them for the privileges 

 kindly granted. 



The only Y.N.U. Meeting held in the district was at Robin 

 Hoods Bay at Whitsuntide. It proved very interesting to 

 those who spent the week end in the district, but to some 

 others who essayed to visit it on the Whit Monday it will 

 be remembered more for the rapid railway journey than 

 anything else, members leaving Middlesbrough at 9-30, 

 arriving at Robin Hood's Bay at 5-30, returning again at 

 about 8-30 and arriving in Middlesbrough between one and 

 two o'clock next morning, surely an event to be remembered. 



Winter Meetings. — Since the last Annual Meeting 15 

 Winter Meetings have been held, this being the longest series 

 ever held in a season since the Club was formed ; with three 

 exceptions the papers have been given by members of the 

 Club, and have been more than usually interesting.. 



The attendance at the meetings on the whole have been 

 fairly satisfactory, especially at the Saturday meetings. 



The first meeting was a Microscopic and Exhibition 

 Meeting, at which Mr. Simpson undertook the arrangements, 

 and he had the assistance of Mr. Stephens and others of our 

 members many of whom lent Microscopes. Natural History 

 objects were exhibited by Messrs. Lawson Thompson, Frank 

 Elgee, and T. A. Lofthouse. 



At the following meetings papers were read and demon- 

 strations given by Mr. G. B. Walsh, B.Sc, on the " Atomic 

 Theory," and " Flame " ; Mr. J. Percy Hodges on " Dia- 

 toms," with microscopic demonstrations; Mr. Frank Elgee 

 on ' ' Shells," and the ' l Marine Fauna and Terrestrial Fauna " 

 past and present, of Cleveland (2 lectures), illustrated by 

 diagrams, specimens, etc.; "Microscope mounting" 

 demonstration, by Mr. Bertram Cockburn, of Redcar ; " Bats, 

 their structure and senses," illustrated by lantern slides, 

 a Y.N.U. Lecture by Mr. Arthur Whitaker, of Barnsley ; 



