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F. Geology. — Rev. E. M. Cole, M.A., RG.S., Wetwang, presi- 

 dent ; Mr. S. A. Adamson, F.G.S., Leeds, and Mr. S. Chadwick, F.G.S., 

 Malton, hon. secretaries ; all re-elected. 



The members then adjourned to the Cafe Royal, Saville Street, 

 where tea was provided. 



The Annual Public Meeting was held at seven o'clock in the 

 Lecture Theatre of the Royal Institution, the chair being occupied 

 by the President, Mr. Henry E. Dresser, F.L.S., F.Z.S. The substance 

 of the Annual Report and the Excursion-Programme for 1890 were 

 announced to the meeting by the Rev. E. P. Rnubley, M. A., M.B.O.U.,. 

 after which the chair was vacated in favour of the Mayor of Hull 

 (Aid. John Sherburn, M.B.), who called upon Mr. Dfesser to deliver 

 the annual Presidential Address, entitled 'A few remarks on Natural 

 History, past and present, together with Notes on a recent Trip tO' 

 Spain.' The President prefaced his remarks by an expression of the 

 extreme gratification it afforded him to preside over a meeting of 

 Yorkshire Naturalists, especially in the town of Hull, for, essentially 

 a Yorkshireman (as not a drop of blood tlows in his veins but what 

 is pure Yorkshire) he was half a Hull man, and spent some of his 

 earlier days in that town. He then proceeded to give a short sketch 

 of the gradual growth of the Study of Natural History, and more 

 especially of Ornithology, to the study of which he had from 

 childhood devoted his spare time. 



At the conclusion of the address a vote of thanks, proposed by 

 Dr. Lambert and seconded by Dr. Walton, was unanimously passed 

 to the President, as was also a cordial vote of thanks to the Hull 

 Societies for their kind and hospitable reception. 



A hearty vote of thanks, accorded to the Mayor of Hull, brought 

 the proceedings to a close. — E.R.W. 



lYOTES AND NEIVS. 



The names recently added to tlie Geological Society of London include those 

 of Messrs. Bernard Ilobson, B.Sc. , of Sheffield, and G. W. Lamplugh of Brid- 

 lington Quay. Mr. Lamplugh has made numerous contributions to the glacial 

 and general geology of East Yorkshire. 



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One of the new selections for the honour of F. K.S. is Mr. J. J. II. Teall, 

 M.A., F.G.S., formerly of Nottingham, antl now attached to the Cieological 

 Survey ; author of several valuable jiapers on north-country geology and petrology. 



AnotliLM- of ihoni is a compliment to natural history research of the old sterling 

 stamp : and zoologists generally will be gratified to learn that the Royal Society's 

 fellowship is to be conferred upon so worthy a naturalist as the Rev. Alfred Merle 

 Norman, D.C. L. , of Burnmoor Rectory, co. Durham. 



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In the Entomological Society's Transactions for 1SS9, Mr. G. T. I'orritt, 

 F.L. S., has a short paper on an extraordinary race of Antia iiieiuiica and figures 

 three males and fifteen females, exhibiting striking deviations from the ortiinary 

 type, all bred in 1S88 and 1SS9 from specimens found at Giimescar near Hudders- 

 field. The ex(iuisite coloured plate is from the pencil of Mr. S. L. Mosley. F. E.S. 



