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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT LEEDS. 
THE members of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union have 
evidently taken well to heart the new British motto, © Business 
as Usual,’ for the attendance at the fifty-third Annual Meeting, 
which was held at the Leeds University on Saturday, the 5th 
December last, was magnificent indeed, in fact, constituting 
arecord. It was an honour to the Union to be invited to hold 
their gathering at the Leeds University, the splendid facilities 
available tending much towards making the meeting so great 
a SUCCESS, fan nok enhanced by the efforts of the Committee 
from the inviting local Societies, ably carried out by Prof. W. 
Garstang, McA. ).Sc., and Mr. ©. i -Grant Me se: 
In the morning a number of members were guided by Mr. 
Albert Gilligan, B. Sc., F.G.S., up the Meanwood Valley as far 
as Adel. Mr. Gilligan ably explained the various geological 
features of the valley, fully set out by him in the circular, 
to which he has paid special attention. The botanists also 
found much of interest, but unfortunately the weather con- 
ditions were a serious drawback, five distinct types of weather 
being experienced, of which wind and hail were the dominant ! 
The Sectional meetings were of brief duration, inasmuch as 
most sections had already held their meeting prior to the gather- 
ing, for the election of their officers and other business. The 
members of the Permanent General Committee, with delegates 
from affiliated Societies, of whom thirty-one sent representatives 
out of the thirty-nine affiliated to the Union, numbering con- 
siderably over one hundred, assembled in the new Education 
Lecture Theatre, when the Annual Report for 1914, and 
Excursion Programme for 1915, wereadopted. The acceptance 
by Mr. Riley Fortune, F.Z.S., of Harrogate, as President for 
1915, was most heartily received. 
The applause was great when the Treasurer of the Union 
(Mr. Edwin Hawkesworth) announced that the balance of the 
debt which had so long been an incubus upon the progressive 
work of the Union had been entirely wiped out, and that the 
substantial balance of £40 6s. in actual cash was now in hand, 
and that in addition the Hey legacy of £20 was also intact. 
The Lecture Theatre was crowded at the evening meeting. 
The retiring President, Mr. Thomas Sheppard, F.G.S., F.S.A. 
(Scot.), occupied the chair, and was supported by Dr. Michael 
E. Sadler, the Vice-Chancellor of the University, the President- 
elect, Mr. Riley Fortune, and Messrs..G. T. Porritt, Prof, 
Percy F. Kendall, W. Denison Roebuck, Charles Crossland, 
John W. Taylor, and Harold Wager, all past Presidents of 
the Union, the Treasurer and Secretaries. 
After an epitome of the Annual Report had been given, 
and eleven new members had been elected, Mr. Sheppard 
Naturalist, 
