204 YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS UNION AT LOWTHORPE. 



At 4.45 the ramblers sat down to tea at the Buck Inn, at which 

 place the business of the meeting was transacted. 



After the Sectional Meetings had been held, the General Meeting 

 was opened at six o'clock, and presided over by Mr. N. F. Dobree, 

 F.E.S. (Beverley), President of the Entomological Section. The 

 minutes of the foregoing meeting having been read and approved, 

 the following eighteen new members were elected : — James L. Bell, 

 M.D., Driffield; H. H. Corbett, M.R.C.S., Doncaster ; J. Norton 

 Dickons, Manningham ; George Frank, Kirbymoorside ; — Hodgson, 

 Pickering; George Fowler Jones, Malton ; John Nicholson, Pudsey ; 

 John H. Phillips, Scarborough ; James Rhodes, Keighley ; William 

 Sparks, Driffield; J. W. Sutcliffe, Halifax; W. Y.Veitch, M.D., 

 Middlesbrough; Robert Waddington, Driffield; John F. Walker, 

 M.A., F.G.S., etc., York; Henry Waud, Darlington ; J. A. Whitaker, 

 Halifax ; C. H. B. Woodd, London ; Thomas W. Woodhead, 

 Huddersfield. 



The roll of affiliated societies was next called, to which repre- 

 sentatives from the following responded : — Conchological Society, 

 Dewsbury, Halifax, Hull (two Societies), Leeds (two Societies), 

 Malton, Ovenden, Scarborough (two Societies), and York. 



A vote of thanks was then passed, on the motion of Mr. J. W. 

 Davis, F.G.S., seconded by Mr. M. B. Slater, F.L.S., to Messrs. 

 W. H. St. Quintin, M.B.O.LT., and John Dickson, for permission 

 granted to visit their respective estates, to Messrs. Mortimer and Ross 

 for conducting the various sections, and to the various contributors 

 to the excursion-programme. 



The following resolution was passed, on the motion of Mr. C. P. 

 Hobkirk, F.L.S., seconded by the Rev. E. Maule Cole, M.A., F.G.S., 

 and supported by Messrs. J. W. Davis, F.G.S., etc., and W. D. Roebuck, 

 jr_L_S. :— 'That the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union desires to record 

 its extreme regret at the loss sustained since the last meeting in the 

 death of two of its most active and valued members — Mr. S. A. 

 Adamson, F.G.S., Secretary of the Geological Section, and Mr. E. B. 

 Wrigglesworth, a former Secretary of the Entomological Section; 

 and that the Secretaries be requested to communicate accordingly 

 with the relatives of the deceased gentlemen.' 



The reports of the various sections were then given. 



For the Vertebrate Section, Mr. Edgar R. Waite, F.L.S., 

 Secretary, reported that the members attaching themselves to this 

 section were chiefly under the leadership of Mr. Fredk. Boyes, 

 Beverley, and numbered about a dozen, who confined their investi- 

 gations mainly to the east side of the stream. The district appears 

 to be a very promising one, and it is to be regretted that so little 



