34 Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union: Annual Report, 1914. 
Permission to visit estates has readily been granted by various 
Landowners, while on the occasion of the visit of the Union to 
Glaisdale’ on August Ist., Glaisdale friends kindly provided 
afternoon tea. The best thanks of the Union are due to the 
Railway Companies who have again afforded the usual cheap 
travelling facilities. 
THE EXCURSIONS FOR 1915 will be as tollows :— 
Yorks. Mid.W.—Sawley, near Ripon, Saturday, April 24th. 
N.W.—Settle (Whit. Week-end), May 22nd to 24th. 
S.E.—Bishop Wood, near Selby, Saturday. June 
roth. 
S.W.—Hebden Bridge, Saturday, July 17th. 
N.E.—Saltburn (August Bank Holiday Week-end), 
August 7th to gth. 
N.E. — Mycological Meeting, Scarborough, Sisaeear 
ber 24th to 20th. 
N.E.—Marine Biology Committe Meeting, Scar- 
borough. 
December 4—Annual Meeting at Keighley. 
OpituARy.—The Union has to regret the loss of many prom- 
inent Yorkshire Naturalists. On the 14th May one of the Ex- 
Presidents, Mr. William West, F.L.S., passed from among us 
in his sixty-sixth year. 
He was the most kindly and unassuming of men; a hard 
worker, a conscientious student, and one whose love of nature 
was beyond all description. Most painstaking and persevering 
in his work, he has left many important memoirs which will ever 
remain monuments to his memory. Yet he was one of the type 
of men of whom it can truly be said that his greatest achievement 
was in the encouragement he gave to others. 
a) “In Memoriam’ notice appeared in The Naturalist, 
pp. 227-230 and 257-260. Obituary notices have likewise appeared 
in ne pages of the same magazine relative to Major G. B. Barrett- 
Hamilton, Mr. Frederick Brittain, J.P. and Mr. Uriah Bairstow 
(the last two were members of the General Committee of the 
Union). 
DIVISIONAL SECRETARIES AND LocaL TREASURERS.—The 
duties devolving upon these gentlemen have been willingly and 
ably performed, and the thanks of the Union are tendered to 
them for their assistance. The Executive have, with much regret, 
accepted the resignation of Mr. W. Robinson, Sedbergh, as 
Divisional Secretary for N.W. Yorks., and desire to place on record 
an appreciation of the many valuable services rendered by him 
to the Union in that capacity. 
GENERAL COMMITTEE.—The following have been elected as 
members of the General Permanent Committee of the Union :— 
Naturalist, 
