YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS' UNION. 



FORTY-EIGHTH ANNUAL REPORT, FOR 1909. 



Presented at Scarborough, Dec. nth, 1909. 



OWING to a widely expressed desire of the General Com- 

 mittee at the Scarborough Meeting, the Annual Report 

 of the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union is included in this 

 issue of ' The Naturalist.' — T. S. 



The Executive Committee has pleasure in presenting the 

 following report of the work of the Union during 1909. 



The Forty-seventh Annual Meeting was held at Doncaster, 

 on ThursdBy, Dec. loth, 1909. The Corporation kindly placed 

 the Mansion House at the disposal of the Union, and the Doncaster 

 Scientific Society looked well after the interests of our members, 

 and made the local arrangements. Partly on account of the 

 bad weather the attendance was by no means so representative as 

 that of preceding annual meetings. 



Excursions were made to Cusworth, where many botanical 

 and other specimens were secured, and these were exhibited at the 

 excellent conversazione held in the evening. An invitation from 

 the Scarborough Field Naturalists' Society for the Union to 

 spend its next annual meeting at Scarborough was unanimously 

 accepted. 



Dr. Wheelton Hind, F.G.S., as his presidential address, gave 

 an admirable and valuable summary of " The Present Position ol 

 the Geology of the Carboniferous Rocks of Great Britain," which 

 has since enriched the pages of our journal, " The Naturalist." 

 The President also made feeling reference to the death of 

 Dr. Clifton Sorby. 



Six Field Excursions have been held during the year, upon 

 which many useful observations were made, and several additions 

 to the county fauna and flora placed on record. 

 The excursions were as follows : — 

 For York, S.E. —Market Weighton (Saturday, May 8th). 



Mid. W.— Bowland (Whit W>ek-end, May 29th u> 



31st). 

 N.E. — Runswick (Saturdav, July loth). 

 N.W. — Sedbergh (Bank Holiday Week-end. July 



31st to August 2nd). 

 S.W. — Cawthorne (August 28th). 

 N.E. — Fungus Foray at Castle Howard (September 

 i8th to 2ist). 

 Market Weighton. — The first excursion during the j^ear was 

 held in this charming Wold district, and was well attended. The 

 numbers were augmented by several teachers, members of the 

 East Riding Nature Study Association. Geologists, Botanists and 



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