2 Editorial. 



Notes and News,' and copies of any papers bearing- upon the 

 natural history of the district should be forwarded to the editors 

 for this purpose. Secretaries of Natural History and Scientific 

 Societies are also urged to forward all their publications to this 

 journal. It perhaps need hardly be stated how desirable it is 

 that as many additional subscribers as possible should be 

 secured. An increase in the subscription list would be the 

 means of many improvements being effected, not the least of 

 which would be an additional number of illustrations. 



THE UNIONS PAST PRESIDENT. 



Mr. Percy F. Kendall, F. G.S., whose recently-delivered 

 presidential address is referred to on another page, has accom- 

 plished much for Yorkshire geology. Since his appointment at 

 the Yorkshire College, Leeds, in 1893, many most complicated 

 geological problems have been solved, and numerous excellent 

 pieces of field-work have been accomplished. His frequent 

 appearance on the excursions of various Yorkshire societies 

 during recent years has unquestionably resulted in the study 

 of his favourite pursuit being taken up by a whole army of 

 enthusiastic workers, greatly to the advantage of the science. 

 Such an impetus has been given to thorough scientific investiga- 

 tion by Mr. Kendall's energy and example, that it can be truly 

 said his appearance in the county marks an era in the history of 

 Yorkshire geology. Mr. Kendall is probably best known on 

 account of his work on the glacial beds of the county. One of 

 his earliest Yorkshire papers was ' The Glaciation of Yorkshire ' 

 (1894), whilst his latest, 'A System of Glacier-Lakes in the 

 Cleveland Hills ' (noticed elsewhere), is a truly remarkable piece 

 of original work. Equally at home in other directions, however, 

 he has added greatly to our knowledge of the undergrovmd waters 

 of West Yorkshire, and the discovery of a fossiliferous horizon 

 in the Millstone Grit at Eccup, near Leeds, has been such that 

 its value, palcuontologically, has not yet been fully realised. 



THE PRESENT PRESIDENT. 



Mr. W. Denison Roebuck, F. L.S., whose able editorship of 

 this journal during the last nineteen years places every northern 

 naturalist under a deep debt of gratitude, now occupies the post 

 of honour in the Union. In addition to his editorial work 

 Mr. Roebuck has conducted secretarial and other duties in 

 connection with the Yorkshire Naturalists' Union, to the great 



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