SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT. 43 
those arranged for by the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists’ 
Society; and the Leeds Society was represented at every one of the 
seven which constituted the series. 
In addition to this series, a very successful one was held on 
Bank Holiday Monday, the 7th of August, in conjunction with So- 
cieties at Richmond, York, and Huddersfield, the locality being the 
neighbourhood of Aldborough and Boroughbridge. 
A full report of this Excursion was published in the “Naturalist” 
for October and November, 1876. A reprint willbe issued to the 
members with the present report. 
WEST RIDING CONSOLIDATED NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY. * 
During the year the Society has maintained its connection 
with the West Riding Consolidated Naturalists’ Society, and has 
been represented at all the meetings. 
Important changes have been made in the constitution of the 
West Riding Society with a view of placing on permanent record 
the observations made at the meetings and by the members. A 
council of delegates has been appointed for the 
management of affairs, and in future itis intended to divide the 
meetings into Sections, upon the plan of the British Association. 
It is also intended to publish reports and papers bearing upon the 
Natural History of the county. It is however evident that to carry 
out the plans as projected the present income is entirely inadequate. 
It is therefore intended to supplement the present income of 1d. per 
member, by inviting members to subscribe additional sums, in order 
that the work of the W. R. C. N.S. may not be crippled by finan- 
cial inability to carry out the investigation of the natural history of 
this county. 
The assistance of the members of this Society in this direction 
is not only desirable but urgently needed. 
LOCAL COLLECTIONS. 
On the 23rd of May Mr. Wm. Nelson read a paper “On the de- 
sirability of our forming local collections,” in which he advocated 
that the Society should take steps for the acquisition of specimens 
of the animals and plants of the county of York. Subsequently 
Mr. Nelson’s suggestions were adopted by the Council, and at their 
* Subsequently to the reading of this Report, the name of the West Riding 
Consolidated Naturalists’ Society has been changed to that of ‘‘ Yorkshire 
Naturalists’ Union.” 
