120 HULL SCIENTIFIC AXD FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB. 



Club visited Sutton and Wawne, Bridlington (with Hull 

 Geological Society), Hornsea Mere, Newport, Ferriby and 

 Brough, Leconfield, Patrington, Hornsea Mere (with Leeds 

 Conchological Society), Swine, Filey (with Yorkshire 

 Naturalists' Union), Sproatley, Barton and South Ferriby, 

 Pulfin Bog, and Hornsea Mere again. 



From July 4th to September 25th the Club visited : — 

 Skipwith Common, Driffield, Barton and South Ferriby, 

 Hornsea (for the beach), Birkhill Wood, Filey, Bowes 

 (Y.N.U.), Kelsey Hill, North Cave (for Snake Hall), Horn- 

 sea Mere, West Dock Reservation, Hutton Cranswick (for 

 Watton Abbey), Wharncliffe Crags (Y.N.U.), Hornsea Mere, 

 Helmslev. 



One of the earliest of these was in connection with the 

 Y. N.U. visit to Filey, which in point of numbers was one of 

 the best attended meetings of the Union. At some of our 

 Excursions, the newly-formed East Riding Nature Study 

 Committee has taken part, to the mutual advantage of our 

 Society and the Committee. Monthly visits have been paid 

 to Hornsea Mere in connection with the proposed Monograph 

 of the Natural History of the Mere, which the Club proposes 

 to issue. 



Membership. — During the past year the usual disagreeable 

 duty of erasing the names of certain members from our list 

 on account of arrears of Subscription and other causes has 

 had to be performed, but this has been counterbalanced by 

 an increase of 20 members, leaving the present total 177, as 

 against 176 last year. 



Attendance. — The attendances at the indoor meetings 

 have been most satisfactory, but on the Excursions, with a 

 few exceptions, it has not been what might have been 

 expected, although to a large extent this is no doubt due to 

 the glorious uncertainty of our " Summer" weather. 



Press. — It is our duty to thank the local press for the 

 assistance they have given the Club in the matter of reports 

 of our Excursions and Meetings. 



Finances. — One particularly pleasant feature in connection 

 with this Society is that, notwithstanding the amount of work 

 its members have accomplished, and the number of pages 

 taken up thereby in our annual Publications, the Club's 

 finances remain in a satisfactory condition. This is prin- 

 cipally due to the fact that its Publications have been of such 

 value that there has been a demand for them amongst the 

 scientific public, and to the fact that we have a hard-working 

 Treasurer. 





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