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The Honorary Treasurer's accounts showed a satisfactory 

 financial condition. 



Twenty-nine meetings, not including the excursions, were 

 held during the course of the year. Of these 7 were held in 

 the Library of the Philosophical Hall, i at the Yorkshire 

 College, and 5 in the Club's Room. 



Excursions were arranged on the Saturdays during the 

 summer months, and were well attended, the following 

 being the localities visited : — Ripon, Malham, Pool, Plump- 

 ton Rocks, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Adel Bog, Walton Hall 

 (Wakefield). 



In connection with the excursions, the thanks of the 

 Society were given to the following societies and gentle- 

 men for valuable co-operation : — The Ripon Naturalists' 

 Club, The Craven Naturalists' Association, The Wakefield 

 Naturalists' Society, Thomas Pratt, M.R.C.V.S. (Ripon), 

 B. M. Smith (Ripon), J. J. Wilkinson (Skipton), William 

 Story (Pool), Jas. Breare (Burley), D. Grimshaw (Burley), 

 Wm. Rushforth (Wakefield), H. B. W^illiamson (Wake- 

 field) ; and to the following gentlemen for kind permission 

 to visit their estates : — H. Bilson Martin (Agent for the 

 Duke of Devonshire), Thomas S. Mason (Agent for the 

 Marquis of Ripon), John Mason (Agent for Lord Grantley), 

 Sir J. P. P. Radcliffe (Rudding Park), W. Morrison, 

 J. P. (Malham), W. Paul (Adel), J. Binns (Sawley Hall), 

 E. Simpson (Walton Hall), W. H. Bartholomew. 



The Club was again enrolled among the Corresponding 

 Societies of the British Association, and the President was 

 elected to represent the Club at the meeting at Oxford. 



The President and Messrs. Branson, Crowther, and 

 Wilson were elected as delegates of the Club to the York- 

 shire Naturalists' Union. 



The Council considered the advisability of creating a new 

 class of associate members, being pupils and pupil-teachers 

 at the various schools in the city, and it was decided that 

 a limited number of such associates should be admitted. 

 A circular to that effect was issued to the head-masters and 

 head-mistresses of 250 schools. 



