YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



GEOLOGICAL SECTION. 



President : Dr. A. GILLIGAX, F.G.S. 



The Annual Meeting of the Section will be held in the Technical College, 

 Hiidders field, on Saturday, October 8th, 1921, at 7 p.m. 



Members and Associates of the l^nion are invited to attend and to "bring 

 notes, specimens, lantern slides, etc.. Will officials of Affiliated Societies 

 kindly notify their members. 



A Field Excursion will be held in the afternoon to Slaithwaitc and 

 Meltham. Train leaves Leeds at 1-25 p.m., Slaithwaite arr. 2-50 p.m. 



A Research Excursion will be arranged for the following day, starting 

 from Huddersfield for the investigation of the gonialite fauna of the neighbour- 

 hood. 



JOHN HOLMES (Hon. Sec), 



Crossbills, Keighley. 



CONCHOLOGICAL SECTION. 



The date of the Conchological Meeting will be October 8th, at University 

 House, Leeds, at 3 p.m. Professor Garstang will give a Lecture on ' The 

 Life History of Lamellaria and Echinospira.' 



F. RHODES, Secretary. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. 



Annual Meeting at Leeds University, on October 15th, at 3-30 p.m. 



Business : — Annual Report ; Selection of Officers for 1922. 

 Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S., will read a paper on ' Bryophytes as indicators 

 of water hardness." 



VERTEBRATE SECTION. 



President of the Section : S. H. SMITH, York. 



Two meetings will be held in the Library of the Leeds Philosophical Society, 

 Park Row, Leeds, at 3-15 p.m. and 6-30 p.m. respectively, on Saturday, 

 October 22nd, 1921. 



Business at the Afternoon Meeting. — (a) To consider and pass 

 Sectional Reports for 192 1 and to elect Officers for 1922 ; [b) the General and 

 Financial Reports of the Yorkshire Wild Birds Protection Acts Committee 

 for 1921, and to elect Officers and Committee for 1922 ; (c) the Report of the 

 Yorkshire Mammals, Amphibians, Reptiles and Fishes Committee for 1921, 

 and to elect this Committee for 1922. 



The following papers will be given : — 



" Notes on the Distribution of the Lesser Horse-shoe Bat," 

 H. B. Booth, F.Z.S., M.B.O.U. 



" Notes on the Turtle Dove," S. H. Smith. 

 At the Evening Meeting the following papers will be given, with 

 lantern slides : — 



" Some Notes on the Fame Islands," Riley Fortune, F.Z.S. 



" The Great Skua and Arctic Skiia in Shetland," E. Chislett. 



" The Great Skua and Arctic Skua in Orkney," T. M. Fowler. 



E. WILFRED TAYLOR [Hon. .'^a .), 

 10 Tilford Terrace, York. 



Any Member or Associate Member of the Yorkshire Naturalists' I'nion is 

 invited to attend any of the above meetings, and to bring notes, specimens, 

 lantern -slides, etc., or matter of interest connected with the work of the Section, 

 and to take part in any discussion. 



Will officials of Affiliated Societies kindly notify their members? 



NOTICE. -Secretaries of Sections, and Conveners of Committees, are 

 requested to forward revised Lists of Officers and Members immediately upon 

 completion to the S<'<"!"<tarics, ^'orkshire Naturalists' Union, The I'niversity, 

 Leeds. 



For further Notices see p. 3 of cover. 



