^7° YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION AT KILDALE. 



Moor, and proceeding to the examination of Easby Wood, where — 

 as will be seen below — they met with a considerable and gratifying 

 degree of success. 



All the parties returned to Middlesbrough, where, at the Station 

 Dining Rooms, they sat down to a well-served and thoroughly- 

 enjoyed meat tea. Sectional meetings were dispensed with, the 

 results having already been ascertained and reports prepared by the 

 sectional representatives. 



In the absence of the President and all the Vice-Presidents, 

 Dr. Veitch, the President of the Cleveland Naturalists' Club, was 

 -voted to the chair. The minutes having been read and passed, the 

 (following candidates were unanimously elected as members of the 

 Union : — Mr. J. Caesar Bacon, Santon, Isle of Man ; Mr. John 

 Machell Foster, Pickering ; Mr. J. VV. Procter, York ; Mr. J. Raine, 

 Richmond ; Mr. Thos. Spencer, Richmond ; and Mr. W. H. Thomas, 

 Middlesbrough. The newly-founded Ravensthorpe Naturalists' 

 Society (120 members) was elected into the Union. The roll-call 

 showed that eleven Societies were represented by the members present 

 during the day, viz. : — Cleveland, Heckmondwike, Hull Geological, 

 Hull Field Naturalists, Leeds (all three societies), Liversedge, 

 Sheffield, Malton, and York. 



The thanks of the Union were then voted, on the proposition of 

 the Rev. Wm. Spiers, M.A., F.G.S., of Hull, seconded by Mr. Robert 

 Cook, of York, to Lady De L'Isle and Dudley, Mr. James Emerson, 

 and Mr. R. B. Turton for- permission for members to visit their 

 estates, to Mr. W. Winn for similar permission in respect of his 

 whinstone quarries ; to Rev. John Hawell, Dr. Veitch, Mr. B. Hudson, 

 and Mr. T. A. Lofthouse, for their services as conductors of parties, 

 and to Messrs. R. Lofthouse and Thos. F. Ward for their contribu- 

 tions to the excursion programme. Mr. Hawell replied. 

 The reports of the Sections were then presented. 

 For the Vertebrate Section, in the absence of all its officers, 

 Mr. Thomas H. Nelson, M.B.O.U., of Redcar, reported that obser- 

 vations had been made by Mr. Clayton, Mr. T. A. Lofthouse and 

 himself, but that the list of birds seen was not a large one, probably 

 from the day not being very favourable for observation. The 

 following were noted : — 



Missel Thrush. Chiffchaff. 



Song Thrush. Willow Warbler. 



Blackbird. Hedge Accentor. 



Ring Ouzel. Common House Sparrow. 



Redstart. Wren. 



R.edbreast. Pied \\'agtail. 



Whitethroat. Meadow Pipit. 



Naturalist, 



