A YEAR’S SCIENTIFIC WORK IN YORKSHIRE: 
BEING 
THE YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS’ UNION’S 
FORTY-NINTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1910. 
Presented at Middlesborough, Dec. 17th, 1910. 
The Forty-eighth Annual Meeting was held at Scarborough 
on December 11th, Ig09, and there was a very satisfactory atten- 
dance. The Scarborough Field Naturalists’ Society had made 
excellent local arrangements, and, in the early part of the day, 
its members led excursions. The General Committee met at the 
Museum, and in the evening a General Meeting and Conversazione 
was held at the Grand Hotel, at which the President, Mr. W. H. 
St. Quintin, delivered his presidential address, entitled “‘ Some 
Avicultural Notes,’’ which has since appeared in ‘“‘ The Natura- 
list.” In connection with the conversazione the Scarborough 
Society had arranged a very fine exhibition of local natural 
history, geological and archeological specimens. The fine show 
of living marine specimens also was particularly appreciated. 
Seven Field Meetings have been held during the year, five 
being the usual divisional excursions; one the fungus foray ; 
the additional Field Meeting being at Redcar, in connection 
with the Yorkshire Marine Biology Committee. At one of the 
meetings an opportunity was taken of joining forces with the 
Lincolnshire Naturalists’ Union, at Scunthorpe, with very success- 
ful results. All the outings, however, have demonstrated that 
there is much still to be done in connection with the flora and 
fauna of our county, notwithstanding the half century of the 
Union’s work. 
The Excursions were held as follows :— 
Yorks., N.W.—Middleton in Teesdale (Whit week-end, May 
15th to 17th). 
Mid.W.—Malham (Saturday, June 4th). 
S.E.—Easington for Spurn (Saturday, July oth). 
N.E. ide, (Bank Holiday week-end, July 
30th to August 2nd). 
Lincs., N.—Scunthorpe (with Lincs. Naturalists’ Union; Thurs- 
day, August 25th). 
Fungus Foray, Mulgrave Woods and Arncliffe (September 17th 
LOs22NG)}\. 
Coast Excursion, Redcar, September 2nd to 6th. 
Middleton in Teesdale.—On the borders of the county, with 
an occasional trespass into Durham, the Union held its first 
excursion of the year during Whit week-end. Everything was 
favourable for a pleasant and profitable excursion, and quite a 
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