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and Museum Committee), Mr. Sam Clough, J.P., Mr. W. N. 
Cheesman, J.P., F.L.S. (President-Elect), Mr. Charles Crossland 
and Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, M.Sc., F.L.S. (Past Presidents of 
the Union), the Secretaries, and Treasurer. Choosing for the 
title of his address, ‘Some Notes on the Vertebrate Fauna 
of Yorkshire: its Distribution and Preservation,’ Mr. Fortune 
entertained his audience with an account of the mammals 
and birds which were once Yorkshire species, present day species 
which were rapidly disappearing, and species which appear 
to be increasing ; and upon the recent additions to the county’s 
fauna. He extolled the useful work performed by the Wild 
Birds and Eggs Protection Committee of the Union, and made 
suggestions as to the manner in which the existing Acts of 
Parliament relative to the preservation of bird life might be 
usefully strengthened. The whole lecture showed how deep 
a student Mr. Fortune was of the fauna of the county, whilst 
the lantern slides, used by way of illustration, were excellent. 
A cordial vote of thanks to Mr. Fortune for his address, and 
for the great interest he has ever taken in the work of the 
Union was unanimously recorded. It is hoped to print Mr. 
Fortune’s valuable address in these pages. 
After the address a conversazione was held in the Museum 
under the auspices of the Keighley, Crosshills and Earby 
Naturalists’ Societies, and the guests were received by the 
Mayor, and Mayoress (Mrs. W. Cecil Sharpe). 
There was a good array of exhibits other than the museum 
collections. These latter were displayed in a very educative 
manner. In addition to the general collections of natural 
history, the museum contains quite a good collection of obsolete 
implements of the local industries and objects of antiquarian 
interest. The Curator (Mr. Rosse Butterfield) has also built 
up a very good school circulation collection of the more common 
local natural history objects. Also interesting was the col- 
lection of local lichens and mosses made in 1808 by the late 
Abraham Shackleton of Braithwaite, near Keighley, and of 
his botanical notebooks descriptive of his finds. Additional 
exhibits were made by the following gentlemen :—Mr. A. 
Gilligan, B.Sc., F.G.S., specimens of Millstone Grit from the 
Netherwood Plantation Quarry, Silsden, containing pebbles, 
and also microscopic slides displaying their structure; Mr. R. 
Jebson, a series of well mounted local plants; Mr. W. A. 
Hiscoe, drawings of local fungi; Mr. Jonas Bradley, nature 
study lantern slides, chiefly of wild birds in their natural 
haunts; Mr. G. F. Townend, photographs and lantern slides 
of Coal Measure fossils; Mr. C. A. Cheetham, coloured lantern 
slides of wild flowers in their natural haunts, and scenery ; 
Mr. T. Fieldhouse, case of local lepidoptera ; by the Crosshills 
Naturalists’ Society, Relief Map of the Aire Valley from 
1916 Jan. J. 
