6 HISTORY OF THE SOCIETY. 
Club, of which most of its members were already active constituents. 
At the commencement of the year 1872-3, in conformity with 
the recommendations of the committee appointed at the Annual 
Meeting the Leeds Naturalists’ Field Club was re-organized upon 
a broader basis, it was resolved that the meetings should be held 
weekly on Tuesday evenings, that they should be alternately 
devoted to the reading of papers and to the exhibition of specimens 
and conversation, and to mark the enlarged scope of the Society’s 
operations the name was altered to ‘‘THE LEEDS NATURALISTS’ 
FIELD CLUB AND ScIENTIFIC AssocIATION.” At the same time 
the subscription was fixed at 4/- per annum. From this time the 
programme was communicated to the members in the form of 
syllabuses of the meetings and papers, issued at the beginning of 
every three months. The programme of operations thus inaugur- 
ated has since formed the basis of the Society’s proceedings to the 
present time. 
The opening meeting was held on the 16th April, 1872, when 
the President delivered his inaugural address. Forty-eight meetings 
were held during the year with an average attendance of 16 at each. 
At 23 of these meetings papers were read while the remainder were 
conversational meetings. Only five excursions were held during 
the season of 1872, and this branch of the Society’s work was, as 
compared with the two preceding seasons, to be regarded as a 
comparative failure, although the excursions actually made were 
productive of great interest to the members who took part in them. 
On the roth August a very pleasant afternoon was spent at the 
gardens at Rosehurst, Headingley, by the invitation of Mr. 
Washington Teasdale. 
On the 3rd August Mr. John Holmes, of Methley, guided a 
party to the interesting groups of prehistoric remains on Rombalds 
Moor, having at the preceding evening meeting given a lecture 
upon the subject. 
The following is a list of the papers read during the year:— 
1872. 
Apl. 30 Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc., on ‘Hydrozoa,’ 
May 14 James Abbott, on ‘Animal and Vegetable Tissues,’ 
», 28 William Todd, on ‘Early Sedimentary Rocks.’ 
June 11 Samuel Jefferson, F.C.S., on ‘Matter and Force.’ 
», 25 John W. Taylor, on ‘Mollusca.’ 
July 9 William Henry Taylor, on ‘Entomology.’ 
», 23 Rev. W. T. Adey, on ‘The Geology of South Bedfordshire. ’ 
,, 30 John Holmes, on ‘Prehistoric Remains on Rombalds’ Moor.’ 
Aug. 6 James Abbott, on ‘The Structure and Classification of Grasses.’ 
», 20 Thomas Hick, B.A., B.Sc., on ‘Botanical Classification.’ 
Sep. 3 Henry C. Cheetham, on ‘Mountain Limestone,’ 
»» 17 Wm, Denison Roebuck, on ‘Hymenoptera.’ 
Oct. 8 Arthur William Dodgshun, on ‘British Ferns.’ 
