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YORKSHIRE NATURALISTS AT YORK. 
THE forty-fifth annual meeting of the Yorkshire Naturalists’ 
Union was held at York on Saturday, December 15th. The 
meeting was of peculiar interest, from the fact that it was the 
two hundredth meeting of the Union. 
In the morning those who arrived early were conducted 
round the premises of the British Botanical Association at 
Acomb, where Dr. Burtt, the director, kindly exhibited the 
various botanical preparations made under his supervision. 
The sections met in the Museum at 3 p.m., and at 3-30 an 
exceptionally well attended gathering of the general committee 
was held in the Lecture Theatre, under the presidency of Mr. 
W. Eagle Clarke. The report on the year’s work was care- 
fully considered, and the opinion was generally expressed that 
the work of the Union during the year was quite equal to that 
of any previous year. In some sections work of exceptional 
importance had been accomplished, details of which had 
appeared in the Union’s official organ, the ‘ Naturalist.” For 
the forthcoming year it was announced that some of the 
committees had arranged to undertake special investigations. 
It was decided to hold meetings for 1907 as under :— 
For York, N.E.—Robin Hood’s Bay (Whit week-end, 
May 18th to 2oth). 
ss S.E.—South Cave (Saturday, June 22nd). 
+ S.W.—Thorne Waste (Thursday, July 11th). 
at Mid. W.—Kettlewell for Arncliffe (August Bank 
Holiday week-end). 
f N.W.—Horton-in-Ribblesdale (Sept. 7th). 
Fungus Foray—Grassington for Grass Woods and Bolton 
Woods (September 21st to 26th). 
An invitation from the Halifax Scientific Society for the 
Union to hold its next annual meeting at Halifax was accepted, 
the place being particularly appropriate, seeing that the Union’s 
new president, Mr. C. Crossland, F.L.S., is a Halifax man. 
The hon. treasurer, Mr. J. H. Howarth, J.P., had pleasure 
in reporting that, probably for the first time for‘many years, the 
expenses of the Union for the year had been slightly less than 
the receipts, and that when the arrears of subscriptions had 
been paid the financial position of the Union would be most 
satisfactory. This success was partly due to the new arrange- 
ment with the ‘ Naturalist,’ which had worked so well for all 
concerned. 
Naturalist, 
