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state of preservation from a clay pit at the former place, while at 

 the latter, Naiadites and Spirorbis have been seen in the shales 

 exposed in the railway cutting. At Cadeby, also, plants are being 

 tipped from the roof of the Barnsley seam. 

 The following were elected for 1910 :-, — 

 Chairman— R. Kidston, LL.D., F.R.S., Stirling, N.B. 

 Convener — Cosmo Johns, Sheffield. 

 Representative on Executive Committee — Miss Johnstone, 



Bradford. 

 Representative on Committee of Suggestions — Cosmo Johns, 



Sheffield. 

 Other Members— W. West, Bradford ; C. Bradshaw, Sheffield ; 

 P. F. Kendall, Leeds ; S. Nettleton, Ossett ; E. E. 

 Gregory, Bingley ; Wheelton Hind, Stoke-on-Trent; 

 Walcot Gibson, London ; E. Hawkesworth, Leeds ; 

 H. Culpin, Doncaster ; and John Holmes, Crossbills. 



OTHER COMIVIITTEES. 



Committee of Suggestions for Research. — No direct call has 

 been made on this Committee during the past year, and there was 

 no occasion to organise a meeting. The suggestion made in 1907 

 that each Section should arrange a programme for each day at 

 the Union's Excursions has been adopted in most cases. Some 

 progress has been made in arranging for the investigation of peat 

 deposits in various parts of the county ; there is, however, still 

 great need of collectors of material from representative localities. 

 Attention may be directed here to the interesting series of papers 

 in recent numbers of " The Naturalist " (September-December, 

 1909), " On the Geographical Distribution of Mollusca in South 

 Lonsdale." This investigation is on the lines of one of the original 

 suggestions of this Committee — " To promote co-operation of 

 members in dealing with questions involving knowledge of several 

 branches of science." Although this particular investigation was 

 carried out independently and outside of our vice-counties, the 

 fauna and flora are familiar enough, and the papers form a strik- 

 ing example of what the combined forces of conchologist, botanist 

 and geologist can achieve. It is to be hoped that the suggestion 

 thus conveyed may not be lost on the naturalists of Yorkshire. 

 One other suggestion, a personal one, that the interests of this 

 Committee would be better looked after by a resident Convener. 

 The Committee for 1910 is as follows :-^ 



Chairman — P. F. Kendall. M.Sc, Rosedene, Weetwood, Leeds. 



Convener — Wm. G. Smith, B.Sc, Ph.D., Edinburgh. 



Representative on Executive — Professor P. F. Kendall. 



Representatives of Committees and Sections — J. W. Carter, 

 Bradford ; W. Hewett, York ; J. W. Taylor, Leeds ; 

 Cosmo Johns, Sheffield ; W. West, Bradford ; 



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