A YEAR’S SCIENTIFIC WORK IN YORKSHIRE: 
BEING 
THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION’S 
FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT 
For 1915; 
(Presented at Keighley, 4th December, 1915). 
THE Firry-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING was held at Leeds on 
December 5th, 1914, under the Presidency of Mr. Thomas 
Sheppard, M.Sc., F.G.S., F.S.A.(Scot.). A report of this most 
successful meeting, the attendance thereat constituting a 
record, appeared in The Naturalist for January, and our 
journal also has contained a portion of Mr. Sheppard’s Presi- 
dential Address on “‘ Yorkshire’s Contribution to Science.” 
The best thanks of the Union are due to the Leeds 
Naturalists’ Club and Scientific Association, the Leeds Geo- 
logical Association, the Leeds Co-operative Field Naturalists’ 
Club, and the Leeds Conchological Club for the hospitality 
extended to the Union on that occasion, and to the authorities 
of the Leeds University for placing at our disposal the rooms 
in which the meetings were held. 
The whole of the six Field Excursions were successfully 
carried through, and despite the withdrawal of the usual cheap 
travelling facilities by the Railway Companies owing to the 
war, the attendance at most of these meetings has been good. 
The Excursions were as follows :— 
Sawley, near Ripon, Saturday, April 24th. 
Settle (Whit Week-end), May 22nd to 24th. 
Bishop Wood, near Selby, Saturday, June roth. 
Hebden Bridge, Saturday, July 17th. 
Saltburn (August Bank Holiday Week-end) July 31st 
to August 2nd. 
Mycological Meeting, Scarborough, September 24th to 
2oth. 
Excursion programmes have been printed and distributed 
prior to each excursion, and detailed reports have appeared in 
the pages of The Naturalist, accompanied, in some cases, by 
illustrations. 
The best thanks of the Union are once more due to the 
various Landowners who so kindly granted facilities and 
privileges. Several of the Sections have also held successful 
gatherings. 
1916 Jan. 1. 
