68 HULL SCIENTIFIC AND FIELD NATURALISTS’ CLUB. 
Illuminated Address to Dr. Hollingworth—On the 25th 
January Mr. J. F. Robinson, on behalf of the members, presented 
an illuminated address on vellum, suitably framed, to Dr. J. 
Hollingworth. It contained the following resolution which had 
been unanimously carried at a previous meeting :— 
‘‘ That the very best thanks of the Hull Scientific and Field Naturalists’ 
Club be given to our retiring President, Dr. J. Hollingworth, for his 
enthusiastic, able, and willing conductorship during the past five years.” 
The Hull Museum.—In view of the fact that the Hull Museum 
is changing hands, and will shortly be under the control of the 
Corporation, a resolution to the following effect was sent to the 
Technical Instruction (Finance and General Purposes) Committee 
in February last :— 
‘‘That this meeting regards the transfer of the control of the Museum 
at the Royal Institution from the Literary and Philosophical Society to 
the Hull Corporation with great satisfaction, as affording strong ground 
of hope that in the near future, under intelligent and efficient curatorship, 
the varied and valuable collections in that Museum will be arranged, 
classified, labelled, and catalogued, on the lines adopted in the best 
equipped museums of Europe, and thus be rendered available as a means 
of education, a stimulus to the acquisition of information, and a source of 
happiness to the people of this city.” 
Shortly after this a deputation from the Hull Geological Society 
and ourselves, consisting of Mr. T. Audas, Dr. J. Hollingworth, 
Mr. R. H. Philip, Mr J. F. Robinson, Mr. J. W. Stather, and 
Dr. F. F. Walton, waited upon the Finance and General Purposes 
Committee at the Town Hall, and presented a memorial signed 
by a large number of gentlemen belonging to either one or other 
of the societies. It is pleasing to report that the deputation was 
well received, and we were promised that our interests would not 
be overlooked at the time the Museum was ready. 
The Driffield Museum.—The likelihood of the Mortimer 
Collection changing hands has been the means of some cor- 
respondence in the local press, and a resolution from this Club 
to the East Riding County Council, who are considering the 
advisability of purchasing the collection, was received and dis- 
cussed by them. 
—T. S. 
WrvNECK AT BEVERLEY.—The Wryneck has occurred in the 
East Riding this summer, as I had the good luck to see one 
perched on a thorn bush near Beverley, on the evening of 2oth 
August, and obtained an excellent view of it—J. R. LowrHEr.* 
* From ‘‘The Naturalist,” Nov., 1899. 
