38 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union: Annual Report, 1909. 



General Committees. — The following gentlemen were added 

 to the Permanent General Committee at the Doncaster meeting : — 

 F. Jowett, Vincent Street, Bradford. 

 F. Elgee, 24 Kensington Road, Middlesbrough. 

 Rev. F. H. Woods, B.D., The Rectory, Bainton, near Driffield. 

 F. Lawton, Carlton Terrace, Skelmanthorpe. 

 W. Harrison Hutton, 44 Dial Street, Leeds. 



A. R. Dwerryhonse, D.Sc, F.G.S., Deraness, Deramore Park, 



Belfast. 



B. Morle}/, Wind Mill, Skelmanthorpe, Huddersfield. 

 A. Gibson Robertshaw, Luddendenfoot, R.S.O. 



Transactions. — It is gratifying to report that dming the year 

 your executive decided to issue a volume of Transactions, contain-- 

 ing the various reports which were in type ; and that a volume 

 of about four hundred pages has since been forwarded to each 

 member. In addition to the valuable and detailed reports of the 

 Union for the years 1905-8, it contains reprints of the twenty-nine 

 excursion programmes published diiring that period ; lists of 

 fungi collected at the Maltby and Grassington forays, by Mr. C. 

 Crossland ; and the geological bibliographies for the year 1902-8, 

 which in former years appeared in " The Naturalist." The last 

 contribution contains over 1600 references to papers and memoirs,, 

 and is the work of the Hon. Secretary. 



Towards a subsequent volume we have Mr. Lee's supplement 

 to his Flora of Dewsbury ; Dr. F. A. Lees' supplement to his Flora 

 of West Yorkshire ; a List of Yorkshire Arachnida by Mr. W. 

 Falconer ; Yorkshire Hemiptera, etc., by Mr. W. Denison 

 Roebuck; Economic Fungi, Part IV., by Mr. J. H. Holland; 

 the Geological Bibliography for 1909 ; and the Excursion reports 

 for 1909. 



SECTIONS AND COMMITTEES. 



The President and Secretary of the Union are ex-oflicio 

 members of all Sections and Committees. 



It is recommended that in future each section of the Union 

 shall have supervision over the Committees bearing upon the 

 particular work of that section ; and also that as far as possible 

 the Committees and Sections meet in good time, in order to 

 receive and agree to the various reports on the year's work, before 

 passing them forward to the Hon. Secretary for insertion in the 

 Annual Report. 



VERTEBRATE SECTION REPORT, 1909. 



General. — At most of the meetings of the Union, the section 

 has been well represented, but at two meetings it has been 

 unrepresented. This is unfortunate, and in future, arrangements 

 must be made so that some of the members are alwaj^s present. 



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