6o Yorkshire Natitralisis' Union: Annual Report, 1909, 



the facts that the sti:cly of marine hfe without a satisfactory 

 account of the marine fauna is Hke trying to study a Hterature 

 without a dictionary, and that the hunting of species new, at any 

 rate to the hunter, is one of the best ways of stimulating and 

 training those habits of observation, on which so much depends. 

 Meanwhile those engaged in this work will have more than one 

 reason to be grateful to this article in the " Victoria History " 

 even while they frankly recognise that the list of the marine 

 molluscs is only provisional. 



The Committee proposes holding a mid-week meeting at 

 Redcar, in 1910, during the September spring-tide. 

 The following were elected for 1910 : — 

 Chairman — Prof. Garstang, Leeds. 



Convener — Rev. F. H. Woods, B.D., Bainton, Driffield. 



Representative on Executive — Prof. Garstang. 



Other Members — Geo. Massee, Kew ; S. Lister Petty, Ulver- 



ston ; J. Eraser Robinson, Hull ; W. Denison 



Roebuck, Leeds ; Arnold T.Watson, Sheffield ; J. D. 



Butterell, Wansford ; E. Howarth, Sheffield ; W. 



Harrison Hutton, Leeds; Dr. A. S. Robinson, 



Redcar; T. W. Saunders, Brotton ; J. Irving, 



Scarborough; W. H. St. Ouintin, J. P., Scampston ; 



Sir Charles Ehot, K.C.M.G., Sheffield; A. J.Moore, 



Hull; D. W. Bevan, Scarborough; A. J. Burnley, 



Scarborough ; and J. A. Hargreaves, Scarborough. 



BOTANICAL SECTION. -^ 



General. — ^Ir. J. F. Robinson reports that although 

 nothing of a very striking character can be reported for 

 the year 1909 ; yet there can be no doubt that, what- 

 soever may be the cause, the older or so-called " floristic " 

 mode has been decidedly in the ascendant in Yorkshire, during the 

 past season. Witness, for example, the comparatively many and 

 long references to botanical matters — new authoritative plant 

 lists, new plant discoveries, new localities, etc. — which have 

 recently appeared in the organ of the L"'nion — " The Naturalist." 



When weather permitted, as it really did on the occasion of 

 one or two of the excursions, good botanical work was done, 

 without, however, anything that we can note as striking or 

 remarkable being recorded. 



Li their private capacity, or on the excursions of the affiliated 

 societies, members and associates have made quite a number of 

 additions to the flora of Yorkshire. The broomrape — Orobanche 

 retictilata Wallroth, new to Britain, ffi'st came under the notice of 

 Mr. H. E. Craven, within ten miles of Leeds. The host plant was 

 Cniciis eriophoriis, and the time xA^ugust 1907. The somewhat 

 belated announcement of this species new to our British lists, 

 shows the care which truly scientific men take before rushing to 



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